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SolidFire, an all-flash storage systems provider, has introduced the latest addition to its agile infrastructure ( AI) family of pre-validated converged infrastructure designs. Built with its storage system scale-out all-flash at the base, the new AI SolidFire for Virtual Infrastructure integrates technology from Dell and VMware reference architecture in a thoroughly tested.

The new Agile Infrastructure (AI) reference architecture is optimized to consolidate and guarantee performance to thousands of virtual workloads, operating systems and applications from a single infrastructure, shared. The combined solution would simplify and accelerate the deployment repeatable dynamic virtualized IT environments that can be customized to meet the ever changing expectations of IT service delivery and consumption.

The latest in its series of complete solutions AI, new SolidFire virtual infrastructure for dynamic IT environments combines: SolidFire all-flash platform storage scale-out block Dell servers PowerEdge R630 and Dell Networking S55 and S4810 switches , and VMware vSphere. Leveraging the unique quality of service SolidFire (QoS) capabilities, storage policies can be provisioned and applied to isolate and guarantee performance for each workload while running thousands of workloads simultaneously in one infrastructure shared.

To remove the infrastructure construction of the guesswork and help organizations create a customized virtual infrastructure provides SolidFire policy configuration for small, medium and large deployments.

SolidFire AI for virtual infrastructure with VMware and Dell would allow companies to consolidate, automate and scale of business critical virtualized environments :.

• non-disruptive expand the system infrastructure with instant availability of resources and generation of seamless upgrades, enabling businesses to react and respond to a current IT needs live
• Deliver the performance monitoring grained each workload to ensure the implementation of predictability and facilitate the consolidation wide.
• Automate all complex storage management tasks and deliver deep integration of management.
• Deliver Secure multi-tenancy on a resilient self-healing architecture to reduce overall operating costs and risks.
• Maximize the use of resources with global, always on efficiency to reduce footprint and reduce data center operational costs.

"solutions such as Agile SolidFire infrastructure create infrastructures that can effectively respond to changing business needs," said Eric Burgener, flash Storage research Director, IDC.

"All-flash arrays have proven their ability to provide the highest absolute performance, excellent at delivering performance ever, despite the varying workload, and reliably manage the workload configurations mixed data centers in terms of throughput and latency, " said Eric Burgener, flash storage research at IDC ." solutions such as infrastructure agile SolidFire that integrate the performance, scalability, enterprise-class data services and QoS granular control create IT infrastructures that can effectively respond to changing business needs. IT environments that perform high levels of use with many concurrent workloads can benefit from converged infrastructure designs that offer performance consistent with virtualized workloads and highly unpredictable cloud. "

The fourth of a series of Agile Infrastructure (AI) designs, AI for Virtual Infrastructure joined SolidFire existing AI for offers of OpenStack. SolidFire will demonstrate AI Virtual Infrastructure for October 20- 22 at booth # 2010 at Dell World 2015 in Austin, Texas.

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX), a provider of interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, launched switch-IB 2 - the new generation of its optimized InfiniBand switch for high-performance computing (HPC), Web 2.0, database data centers and cloud capable of 100Gb / s by port speeds

switch. -IB 2 MPI offloads operations from the CPU to the network to offer "10 times" performance improvement. The new Mellanox Technologies Switching solution enable breakthrough performance in building the next generation and scalable data centers to data-intensive.

"The needs of applications in high performance computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, and HyperScale markets are relentless," said Addison Snell, CEO, InterSect360 Research . "Speed ​​and smart-switch EDR technology 100Gb / 2-IB Switch target trends we're seeing in the industry to improve efficiency and system-wide. With his approach to architecture co- design, Mellanox take the necessary measures in pursuit of the scalability and performance required at the forefront of discovery and innovation, both for research and businesses. "

Switch IB-2 incorporates SerDes 144 "that can operate at 1Gb / s to 25Gb speeds / per channel and provides 7.02 billion messages per second, 0ns latency switch and low power consumption energy. " This would be an appropriate solution for high performance computing (HPC) , cloud hosting, Web 2.0, databases and storage centers.

"the high-performance computing requirements, cloud and web applications today threaten to exceed the capacity of networks they run on," said Glenn Keels, executive director, Dell Engineered Solutions & Cloud . "Dell's mission is to provide solutions that solve the challenges of tomorrow, not just today. We work with Mellanox on innovative cutting-edge products such as Switch 2-IB, to ensure that our solutions enable our clients to achieve their goals to trigger new discoveries and accelerate innovation, it or analysis of data in real time, business intelligence or scientific research. "

Performance Application

collective operations, commonly used in HPC communication protocols such as MPI and SHMEM , have impact on the overall application performance and scale. Mellanox Technologies IB switch-2 allows the switch to manage group communications using the embedded hardware. switch IB-2 decrease the amount of data traversing the network, reduce application latency with additional benefit of freeing up CPU resources for calculation rather than using them to treat communication.

"large companies and small are struggling to keep pace with the rapid increase in demand for high-performance computing resources, "said Misage Scott, vice president and general manager, high performance Computing, Enterprise Hewlett Packard . "Servers with HPE Apollo InfiniBand solutions BDUs 100Gb / of Mellanox can provide customers scalable HPC systems, highly efficient and based on the performance required to solve, engineering and data analysis of the most difficult scientific problems world."

Hive-IO, a company that launched its platform computing software defined for large firms and SMEs earlier this month, has announced new capabilities for its cloud platform including a hypervisor engine, accelerating storage and a motor bus message.

The calculation software-defined solution is available as Infrastructure-as-a-service complete (IaaS) offers customers of large companies and SMEs. It provides a unified single global solution for VDI, server, storage and virtualization infrastructures

The latest features software-defined computing platform Hive-IO (version 6 ) include :.

• Hypervisor Engine - multi-tenant and fully isolated
• Storage Acceleration -. Native RAM-based deduplication and compression with built in
• Motor Bus Message -. forensic inventory, user profiles, KPI management, control and security of API clients
• Provisioning Engine - [Interface Single-pane-of-glass management web with setting common logic customers on multiple devices
• Orchestration Engine - .. Open Message bus API can accept custom calls for several software platforms without management architecture
• native client Broker - Use HTML5 RDP and plugs into active Directory

"This latest series of continuous progress helps Hive-IO customers increase the strategic value and reducing the TCO within their organizations. " said Kevin McNamara, CTO and founder, Hive-IO . "With superior performance over existing products, a unified advanced feature set, the minimum configuration, and automation; The software set the calculation solution of the platform leading the way in an industry encumbered by long implementations and high costs. "

software-defined the Hive-IO computing platform comes on premise or in the cloud hybrid while the data will never leave the premises of a client. the company offers its customers the ability to manage a solution themselves or leave Hive-IO manage remotely.

"the Hive-IO team came from R & D teams of some of the worlds greatest financial institutions and have been involved in the creation and deployment of massive virtualization platforms among hundreds of thousands of nodes across all geographies, "said Joe Makoid, President, CEO and founder, Hive-IO . "Our customers see Hive-IO cloud enablement with a simplified architecture as a significant improvement of their existing implementations."

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SolidFire to $ 870 million in cash . Founded in 2010, SolidFire is an all-flash storage systems supplier providing integrated systems for data centers "new generation".

With SolidFire, NetApp will now have all-flash deals that meet each of the three main segments of the all-flash array market.

• For traditional corporate infrastructure buyer, all NetApp FAS flash (AFF) product line provides enterprise-class features through flash disk and cloud
• for application owner , the NetApp EF Series products offer the SPC-1 benchmarks with consistent performance, low latency and proven reliability 6 × 9.
• for next generation infrastructure buyer, distributed, self-healing, webscale SolidFire architecture would deliver seamless scalability, white economy of the box, and easy management. This would allow customers to accelerate the third case of use platform and webscale economy.

"This acquisition will benefit current and future customers looking to enjoy the benefits of webscale cloud providers for their own data centers," said George Kurian, CEO (CEO) of NetApp . "SolidFire combines performance and all-flash storage economy with a Web-scale architecture that radically simplifies data center operations and enables rapid deployment of new applications. We look forward to extending the NetApp flash leadership with the SolidFire team, products and partner ecosystem, and to accelerate the adoption of flash by large base of partners and NetApp customers. "

over time, the SolidFire products will be integrated into the fabric of NetApp data strategy, offering management "transparent" to flash across data, disk and cloud resources. After the closing of the transaction, which is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal NetApp, subject to customary closing conditions, SolidFire CEO, Dave Wright, SolidFire lead the range of products in the NetApp product operations.

"Both SolidFire and NetApp have deep technical cultures customer-centric, that are focused on delivering innovations that provide customers a competitive advantage," said Dave Wright, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to SolidFire . "We look forward to improving the position of NetApp on the all-flash array market while helping NetApp and SolidFire customers and partners succeed."

Veeam Software, a pioneer provider of data center availability solutions, announced today ' hui general availability of Veeam availability SuiteTM v9. The latest version of Veeam availability solution introduces over 250 new features and enhancements "innovative" to help organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (IORT) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.

Availability Veeam Suite v9 introduces hundreds of company focused on improvements and new features providing the following features :. High-speed recovery, loss avoidance data recoverability verified, the leverage data and complete visibility

"businesses today are more demanding than ever, generating increasing quantities of data they expect 24/7 access; this places a huge burden on iT to deliver, "said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam . "Veeam Availability Suite v9 meets these needs with our most robust offering, scalable and feature-rich to date. Almost 42,000 customers registered for updates to pre-launch (double v8), which illustrates the will of the companies to move existing backup solutions to innovative solutions available. "

Notable highlights in Veeam Availability Suite v9 are:

EMC VNX and VNXe integration of hybrid storage network

• A combination of EMC and Veeam deliver lower RTPOs with Veeam Backup snapshots of storage and Veeam Explorer for instant storage. This integration would allow IT professionals quickly create backups of EMC VNX or VNXe storage snapshots and easily recover individual elements in two minutes or less -. No staging or intermediate step, all with minimal impact on production virtual machines (VM)

Integrations additional primary storage for HPE, NetApp and EMC (NEW)

• Veeam on-Demand Sandbox for snapshots and improvements to the flash storage for backup storage storage solutions from EMC, NetApp HPE and to help the company to leverage storage investments for dev / test and eliminate the impact of backup operations on production environment.
• Direct NFS access to any primary storage to NFS-based to improve backup performance and eliminate the impact of backup operations on VMware vSphere

Veeam Explorer for Oracle (NEW)

• Veeam Explorer for Oracle: Features single-level recovery of Oracle database transactions including the transaction without log backup agent so that customers can restore databases to a specific point in time, thus achieving the recovery point objective (RPO) low; "Quick and easy" one-click restore individual databases; . Support for running databases on Windows and Linux-based servers, and fully compatible with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
• New eDiscovery capabilities for Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange: Useful to comply with judicial or governmental investigations. New features include export reports detailing exactly what was exported, where, and with detailed search criteria; and search queries estimation capabilities of the size of the result
• Major improvements for Microsoft enterprise applications :. Allows restorations of Group Policy objects, integrated DNS records and objects from the configuration partition with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory, complete with restored Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint and the level table restores with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server.

DRaaS powered by Veeam Cloud Connect Replication

• Included in v9, the Veeam customers get a fully integrated, fast and secure to replicate workloads to the cloud, allowing for disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) with "significantly" improved recovery time objectives (RTO). By building a technology that links the user to a trusted service provider of their choice "safely and transparently," Veeam customers have more to build and maintain a disaster recovery site, discharging a quantity enormous cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. The extended functionality also give Veeam Cloud & Service Providers the ability to provide their customers with "fast and safe" DRaaS with the new Veeam Replication Cloud Connect for service providers offer.

"Veeam release availability Suite V9 is a game changer for the market DRaaS" said Ian McClarty, president cloud and colocation provider, PhoenixNAP . "The new functionality Replication Veeam Cloud Connect will allow us to offer recovery services real disaster, with strong SLA, businesses of all shapes and sizes. Together with its world-class ProPartner community, we are pleased to continue to provide the Veeam promise to enable the Always-On Enterprise. "

unlimited backup repository Scale-out

• backup storage management is a huge effort and costly for the company, largely because exponential growth of data would be beyond the capacity of existing solutions to manage effectively and profitably. unlimited new scale-out backup addresses repository Veeam this challenge by reducing spending backup storage hardware and simplifying the storage backup and backup management of employment in the company, while improving backup performance.

Computacenter UK, a global provider of infrastructure services with independent IT infrastructure and Operations Centers Service offices across Europe, South Africa and Asia, announced a partnership with the provider of data migration devices, Cirrus Solutions data. This partnership will enable companies throughout the EMEA the opportunity to conduct large-scale data center migrations with zero downtime and no infrastructure change.

Cirrus Data Solutions is the developer of Data Migration Server (DMS) , proprietary software that supports all types of data migration programs, including: cooling and local storage (data center moves) local remotely, the cloud heritage (physical to virtual), cloud-cloud Cloud- data center, and other common storage management practices.

"So far, the cost for companies to put a system down to perform large-scale data migration can often be prohibitive," said Bill McGloin, technologist chef, Computacenter UK . "in partnership with Solutions Cirrus data, we can continue to help our customers through their digital transformation by offering migration services that provide cost-effective, resilient and scalable infrastructure without service interruption and no change on existing host servers, FC switches, and storage. "

Data Migration Server is based on a patented technology called 'Transparent Datapath Intercept which was built on the idea that data devices should look like a wire when installed in a living SAN. because of this conversation, the Cirrus server can be installed in-line between the switch and the storage unit as easily as changing a Fibre Channel cable. installing take five seconds per path .

"data migration continues to be a major pain for organizations that have exceeded their storage infrastructure needs," said William Imberti, Cirrus VP EMEA data . "The lack of flexible storage options seriously limit the ability of a business to grow and leverage its data for applications, research and profits. Computacenter has provided infrastructure services for almost 35 years, so we particularly honored to work with Computacenter to deliver a true plug-and-play on the EMEA market. "

Based in Long Island, New York, Cirrus data Solutions is a software developer for data migration and caching for corporate data centers and storage area networks (SAN). His appliance software are sold / licensed through a network of system integrators and channel partners, including Cognizant, Dell, Fujitsu, IBM and Datalink.

technology media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) announced the IoTAgenda.com launch of a new website providing an overview of the industry, case studies and impartial advice on how to build and optimize a strategy around the huge opportunities that the Internet of Things (IoT) brings to growth companies.

Enterprise IoT market is a fast moving that many analysts predict significant growth in the coming years. BI Intelligence projects $ 00000000000 IoT will be spent over the next five years, with the adoption of business surpassing consumer purchases. IDC predicts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17% during the same period.

Companies need education on both internal efficiencies they gain with IoT deployments, and how to get specific external party IoT with customers to create and produce the next generation of their commodities, according TechTarget.

Beyond the Hype

although some predictions of IoT may seem exaggerated, the possibility for companies is undeniable and the information gap is huge, States Robert Richardson, editorial director of TechTarget IoTAgenda.com to , "There is so much hype around IoT, but there is the irresistible force of greater connectivity cheaper and widely more sensors in devices to the network edge. Hype aside, organizations from all sectors require a deeper understanding, best practices, recommendations and strategic guidance to capitalize on this market opportunity. "

IoTAgenda.com provide in-depth coverage to help organizations understand the impact of the IoT throughout the enterprise. Covering everything APIs and development to networking, analysis, cloud services and security , the new site will arm IT business decision makers with the right tools and knowledge to make informed decisions about IoT purchase and deployment.

"IoTAgenda.com TechTarget is leading the charge to meet the information needs of companies experiencing IoT," said Doug Olender, Senior Vice President and Group Publisher, TechTarget . "Unlike publications focus only on the machine-to-machine (M2M) or general sites springing technology analysts the latest statistics on the growth of IoT market, we understand that there is something more at play here for companies, and we help companies predict that the future in full. That is why we are launching this new community with hundreds of articles published on the internet of objects to create a strong resource for IoT buyers and a large footprint for organic search traffic. "

Experts encouraged to contribute

in addition to the editorial curated content, there are opportunities for those interested to join a growing network of contributing experts. If you are interested, contact the editorial director of the site, Robert Richardson, editor@iotagenda.com.

NEC and Juniper Networks, both industry leaders in terms of network innovation, announced the expansion of their global alliance relationship to deliver new network Functions Virtualization (NFV) -based solutions. These solutions enable hosting service providers and enterprises to achieve greater service agility to transform their business operations and help reduce overall costs.

The joint solutions combine cloud system (NEC building model OSS), which is a cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack, with OSS / BSS systems NetCracker, service orchestration end-to-end , systems integration capabilities and consulting options as well as networking equipment, Juniper Networks and virtual network functions (VNFs) as the platform Juniper Networks routing and VMX vSRX Virtual Firewall.

network equipment Juniper Networks and VNFs (VMX and vSRX) are building blocks that would allow NFV solutions to offer higher levels of business agility with the automating. NEC will pull ready NFV party hardware and Juniper Networks software within their enterprise virtualized customer premises equipment (HHV) solution to enable the flexibility of a virtualized service environment.

When combined with NetCracker OSS / BSS and service orchestration capabilities from end to end, the new solution would NFV-based able to offer service providers and customers of company with a viable means of delivering business services, cloud-based so fully automatically in near real time.

"as part of its commitment to providing best-in-breed solution based on NFV, NEC has led an ecosystem program SDN / NFV open, with more than 40 partners worldwide "said Atsuo Kawamura, senior vice president of NEC Corporation ." NEC is pleased to work closely with Juniper through this expanded alliance, which will further strengthen the ecosystem and enable NEC and Juniper to jointly offer solutions based on NFV that enable the development of new innovative services for greater speed and at lower cost. "

NEC and Juniper Networks have worked together since 03 with a common goal of providing robust solutions for service providers and enterprises and focusing on key areas, such as microwave / optical backhaul and IP / IP integration, offering dynamic network performance sensitive applications. With today's announcement, the overall alliance relationship expands to include software defined networking (SDN) and solutions based on NFV.

SDN, NFV

"We see enormous potential in our expansion, long-standing relationship with NEC because it represents the combination of technology peak associated with a global approach to GTM is strategic and allows both companies to play to their strengths, "said Vince Molinaro, executive vice president and chief customer, Juniper Networks . "By harnessing the power of automation and orchestration through SDN and NFV, and supporting clients as they navigate their journey of transformation OSS, Juniper and NEC are positioned to help customers leverage their IT investments and network. "

The two companies will also work together to develop in new and developing markets, with a focus on Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Key investment areas include integrated technical teams and lab environments "state-of-the-art" on-road test, the latest industry initiatives and innovative solutions, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) , retail trade as a service and monitoring as target service offers.

NEC and Juniper Networks will present a range of solutions to NEC Booth (hall 3, booth # 3N10) to the mobile World Congress 2016 taking place at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, ​​February 22-25.

integration 6WIND, a company networking software "high performance", announced with Mirantis OpenStack to simplify deployment of joint customers for high-performance data centers and network function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI).

6WIND Virtual Accelerator, which is a hypervisor acceleration software, will incorporate a fuel OpenStack plugin to increase the flow of the application and effectiveness in KVM environments. The two companies worked together to release a Mirantis certified 6WIND Virtual Accelerator plug-in fuel . Developed in open source, fuel would provide experience-based GUI-intuitive for the deployment and management of a variety of distributions and OpenStack plugins.

bottlenecks Hypervisor reduce application performance, slow down the adoption of NFV and limit the extent of data beyond 10G centers. Based on dpdk, Virtual Accelerator 6WIND provides packet processing solution for complete and "high performance" virtual network infrastructure to:

• high performance I / Os dpdk operator with NIC supporting multi-vendor
• high virtual switching performance (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge) and networking (overlays, filter / NAT, IP Forwarding, IPsec)
• support for existing workloads by through standard virtio drivers

"many network operators are working with Mirantis OpenStack transition to NFV," said Kamesh Pemmaraju, product marketing vice president at Mirantis . "the partnership between 6WIND Mirantis and expands the use cases for OpenStack NFV pulling fuel party hypervisor to automate scaling for the critical needs of virtual networks to high performance."

6WIND virtual plug-in accelerator fuel would automate the deployment of the acceleration of the hypervisor-based Mirantis dpdk in OpenStack for virtual applications to scale 10 to 40 to 100 Gbps throughput without disrupting KVM hypervisors, RPS or OpenStack controllers.

6WIND includes full synchronization with the network stack operating system and zero configuration for Linux architectures for users of fuel plugin with flexibility to system resources scale automatically based on the bandwidth the application needs.

"to realize the promise of NFV with deployments of OpenStack, hypervisor acceleration is required for the performance is not sacrificed for virtualization," said Eric Carmès, CEO and founder of 6WIND . "fuel plugin combining 6WIND with Mirantis OpenStack hypervisor automates scaling, offering bare metal performance for NFV applications without additional complexity."