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Red Hat unveils Red Hat Storage Server 3

2 October 2014
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Reading Time: 4 minutesRedHat has announced the global availability of Red Hat Storage Server 3, an open software-defined storage solution for scale out file storage designed for the biggest consumers of unstructured data in enterprises today including enterprise file sharing and collaboration, log analytics, such as Splunk, and big data, such as Hadoop. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and the Open Source GlusterFS 3.6 file system, Red Hat Storage Server 3 is designed to scale to support petabytes of data without compromising on choice, cost and control. Highlights of the new capabilities of Red Hat Storage […]

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VMware products and the “Shellshock bug”

29 September 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the Heartbleed bug storm, now there are new possible (serious) problems with a new bug in the Linux and OpenSource world: the Shellshock bug affect lot of Linux systems, in particular the bash (the standard shell on most Linux and also some Unix system). On Sept 24, 2014, a critical vulnerability in Bash (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) was published that may allow for remote code execution. Use this exploit is quite simple (on affected system), that make this bug really critical. Major distribution have already realized a new bash version with the required path, but old […]

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A3CUBE introduces a new scale out system approach

17 September 2014
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Reading Time: 5 minutesA3CUBE Inc., a company founded in 2012 as a result of more than 5 years of research and development operations, has introduced its Fortissimo Foundation building block software solution. Coupled with A3CUBE’s previously announced RONNIE Express platform, Fortissimo Foundation provides dramatic improvements in application performance and datacenter efficiency, particularly in unstructured, Big Data environments. This solution is not only a new approach to a scale out architecture (confirming this kind of storage trend) but also an innovative way to build converged (and also hyperconverged) systems.

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Dell Networking family

10 September 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDell’s networking portfolio was historically made by a Dell PowerConnect series for the switches in the SMB and mid-size target and the PowerConnect-W for the wireless offer. Some years ago there was also a PowerConnect-J series with the (temporally) partnership with Juniper (before the Force10 acquisition). The Dell Force10 was positioned in the top of the networking offer with several products both for the traditional networking approach (core, aggregation and access) and also for the emerging model (leaf-spine). But recently the entire networking family has been re-organized and renamed with new names, a clear positioning […]

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Micro segmentation with NSX

2 September 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs written in a previous post, VMware NSX was one of the cool topics during the past VMworld and new version of this products has been announce. User cases are more and more and probably one of most interesting (and natural) usage of Network Virtualization is the micro-segmentation. This can give an immediate advantage in using this technology, and can also give an answer to a common security issue. Today’s security models are focuses on perimeter defense, but continued security breaches show this model is not enough. A deep and more granular approach is needed […]

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What’s new in VMware NSX

27 August 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOf course, in this VMworld 2014 there is space also for NSX with lot of sessions, user cases and related news. Related news maybe are not so big as in the past year (the first official announce of NSX), but anyway there is something interesting. First to all the certification path on Network Virtualization: as written in a previous post, there are already the first (big) group of VCDX-NV. Now the certification page is update also with the blueprint for VCDX-NV and VCP-NV (you can already ask for the authorization for it) and the new […]

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Atlantis USX 2.0: more than Software-Defined Storage

20 August 2014
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve already write about Atlantis ILIO USX in some previous posts (for example look at the one related to Virtualization Field Day 3). Their solution is a in-memory software-defined storage solution that pools existing SAN, NAS and DAS from across the datacenter and then optimizes how server applications and VMs consume this storage. Now Atlantis Computing has announced the new version 2.0 of this product with the promise to enable enterprises to deliver better than flash performance, for half the cost of traditional SAN. With USX they are jumping in the storage world making their […]

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