How Fire & Rescue NSW deployed EMC technology and built a cloud for NSW emergency services
15 April, 2012Fire & Rescue NSW, one of the world’s largest urban fire and rescue services, has deployed several EMC CLARiiON devices in a managed data centre. This has enabled the agency to double its storage efficiency and provide cloud services to other government agencies.
Exfo FTB-200 Fibre Channel Packet Blazer Test Module 8535
27 May, 2011Available to rent, the Exfo FTB-200 Fibre Channel Packet Blazer Test Module 8535 supports BER testing of Fibre Channel circuits and 1, 2, 4 and 10x full-line-rate Fibre Channel traffic generation. Assess the capability of a link with round-trip latency measurements.
Storage maps the future of digital data
07 April, 2011 by Angus MacDonald*The one consistent theme in the digital world is that growth is a constant. It is estimated that from 2009 to 2020, the size of the digital universe will have increased 44-fold; that is a 41% increase in capacity every year. Storing, locating and extracting value from high volumes of data will become increasingly complex. Oracle’s Angus MacDonald outlines a storage strategy to cope with this avalanche of data.
IBM data centre workload-optimised systems
14 March, 2011 byIBM has announced workload-optimised systems to help users manage a range of more demanding data centre workloads.
Hitachi Ultrastar solid-state drives
02 December, 2010 byThe Ultrastar solid-state drive (SSD) family are claimed to be the first SAS and FC enterprise-class SSDs and are suitable for those using tiered storage as a method of managing the escalating performance, capacity, endurance and reliability requirements of data centres. The family is available in 100, 200 and 400 GB capacities, featuring both 2.5″ 6 Gbps serial attached SCSI (SAS) and 3.5″ 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces.
Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem Virtual Connect and Matrix
07 July, 2010 byThe BladeSystem portfolio’s improved capabilities for Virtual Connect and Matrix enable users to reduce network sprawl. Virtual Connect’s reduced network complexity and its wire-once technology allows users to easily add, move and change servers connected to local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) without rewiring.
Hitachi Data Systems non-proprietary UC platform
12 May, 2010 byHitachi Data Systems has announced details of the claimed industry first non-proprietary platform that fuses an organisation’s server, storage and networking requirements.
Diskeeper 2010 Performance Software
11 January, 2010 byDiskeeper has launched Diskeeper 2010 Performance Software - claimed to be the only product available that prevents fragmentation.
Guidance Software EnCase Forensic certified for Dell Digital Forensics
11 January, 2010 byDell has announced that Guidance Software’s computer forensics solution EnCase Forensic has been certified to work on Dell’s Digital Forensics solution. The two companies will also work together to bring the Digital Forensics solution to their key users globally.
Management integration for cloud computing
08 September, 2009 byNetApp has introduced new products and enhancements to complement VMware vSphere4 and VMware View to assist customers to optimise their desktop and cloud computing environments.
