Archive for May, 2011
IBM just announced that effective May 13, 2011, list prices of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition have been reduced by 35%. I must admit when I first read this release I couldn’t help but have this vision in my head of ...
EMC World 2011, held in Las Vegas, was the backdrop for EMC’s announcement of the Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.1 (UIM 2.1). The UIM software is essentially the VCE Vblock management system, capable of orchestrating and provisioning infrastructure services across the entire Vblock infrastructure: VMware hypervisors, Cisco UCS compute and networking ...
Never known for sharing the spotlight, Clearwell Systems stole the show completely in an already big week for e-discovery M&A. Its planned $390m acquisition by Symantec ($410m - $20m in Clearwell cash) tops one of the largest e-discovery-driven deals in recent times: Monday’s $380m deal for Iron Mountain’s distressed Digital ...
Purpose-built archive solutions have evolved: they can do more than move data from a primary application (e-mail, file share, etc.) and store it for extended periods of time; they can discover and manage information outside of their respective repositories, and facilitate policy creation by multiple lines of business. It is ...
Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM, though some people still use SIM or SEM) has been around for about a decade now. Originally built to capture, normalize, process, and correlate firewall and IDS logs, it now participates more extensively in areas like log management, security analysis and ...
First, why should you listen to me instead of Wall Street?
I don’t hold Dell stock and I won’t make any money if you buy or sell Dell.
If I lose money it’s my problem–I will not ask for a Government bailout.
Dell has one of the most consistent and value-driven strategies of ...
I read press releases. Myself, my colleagues, and 17 other people in the world read them. You’d think by the sheer number of them that appear daily, others would be interested, but no one is. Only me, and my friends.
Companies think that if they send out a ...
Yesterday, Avnet rolled out a program and services around the pre-integration, support, and single SKU ordering for FlexPod solutions from NetApp and Cisco. See the announcement here. FlexPod solutions offer a great alternative for resellers to play in the integrated computing space and be successful despite some customers’ ...
Google just announced a new (and default) datastore service: High Replication Datastore.
From the complexity involved, it seems clear that this was in development prior to the AWS outages, and it solves a lot of problems seen in EBS.
High-replication store ensures that your data, even your TRANSACTIONAL data, ...
Do it yourself (DIY) IT is quickly going to become a distant memory as market leaders such as Dell load up their quivers. Investing $1 billion in data centers, introducing new solution offerings with Dell vStart, building out its desktop virtualization portfolio, and investing in significant joint engineering efforts with ...
