VMbytes

New Intel Itanium Offers Greater Performance, Memory Capacity

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:17 +0000

It may be two years late, but Intels Tukwila Itanium processor offers twice the number of cores as the current Montecito version, significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intels high-end Xeon server chip and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes the same day that IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
- It took a little longer than expected, but Intel officials have finally released the long-awaited Tukwila, the next-generation Itanium processor that offers significant advances in performance and scalability and a host of features that improve everything from virtualization capabilities to reliab…

full article

Death to Personal Storage Table Files

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:45:00 +0000

The flow of email in most companies is constantly increasing – the average corporate email user sends and receives 167 messages per day. To comply with regulatory requirements, a company must give employees constant access to their email accounts and retain copies of every important email, which makes managing email more difficult than ever.

Full Article

Dell Buys ExaStore: Globes

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:22:00 +0000

Dell, which has been promising a little M&A, is buying the gone-bust Israeli-based clustered NAS start-up Exanet according to Israel’s Globes news site. Dell is reportedly only paying $12 million for a company whose four investors kicked in $70 million over the last 10 years. The acquisition is supposed to give Dell its first R&D center in Israel.

Full Article

Infiniband Boldly Going Where No Architecture Has Gone Before

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Back in 2005 we all knew that Fibre Channel and Ethernet would eventually support transmission rates of 10 Gbit/s and above and now in 2010 that day has pretty much dawned on us. In the excitement of those days what was always a concern was that the host’s I/O bus would need to transmit data at the same rate. But with all the advancements of PCI-E, the nature of all parallel buses is that their transmission rate can only be increased to a limited degree so how was this potential barrier ever going to be solved? The solution being penned around at the time was InfiniBand. Not only did it carry a name that seemed straight out of a Star-Trek episode but it also promised a ‘futuristic’ I/O technology which replaced the PCI bus with a serial network. That was five years ago and bar a few financial services companies that run trading systems I hadn’t really seen any significant implementations or developments of the technology that was marketed with the phrase ‘to Infiniband and beyond’. But two weeks ago that suddenly changed.

Full Article

Voltaire Announces 32% Revenue Growth in Q4

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:45:00 +0000

Looking ahead, I believe 2010 will be an inflection point for Voltaire and our markets. The principles used in high performance computing of scale-out, low latency and application acceleration is becoming the foundation for next generation, virtualized data centers and the rapidly expanding cloud computing opportunity. We believe that we are well-positioned at the forefront of a coming widespread infrastructure refresh in the data center. We aim to capitalize on this potential and I am excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for Voltaire in the coming months and years.

Full Article

3PAR InServ F400 Storage Server Wins Award

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Cloud Computing Expo - 3PAR, a provider of utility storage, announced on Monday that the 3PAR InServ F400 Storage Server — one of the newest members of the 3PAR InServ family of storage servers — has been named the disks and disk subsystems 2009 “Product of the Year” by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com.

The awards are presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group and were judged by the Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants.

Full Article

1000 Ways to Skin the Cat, Either Way, the Cat’s Till Dead

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Thanks to @jadkins for the colorful ending to that cliched saying, which really got me thinking. Sometimes we just make certain aspects of architecture too difficult for no reason. Good design is important and can have significant financial impact if done incorrectly, but chances are the negative impact comes into play during the engineering effort, not during the architecture. To clarify my point, one must first understand what architecture is really focused on and how that differentiates from engineering.

Full Article

Leostream Connection Broker 6.3 Makes Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Easier To Deploy Through Greater Flexibility And Simplified Management

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:35:00 +0000

Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software today announced that new features have been added to its… Read more at VMblog.com.

Full Article

VMware Partner Exchange 2010 Kicks Off With Record-Breaking 2,600+ Attendees, 55 Sponsors and 45 Countries Represented

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:32:00 +0000

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today kicked off VMware Partner Read more at VMblog.com.

Full Article

F5 and VMware Solution Yields 10x Improvement in Long Distance Live Migration Performance Using VMware VMotion

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:55:00 +0000

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced deployment guidance and test results that illustrate… Read more at VMblog.com.

Full Article