Data Center Management Articles
Applying automated analytics to a wide variety of IT and business metrics is rapidly becoming "the next big thing." When considering whether to give the data center the "Moneyball" treatment in 2014, there are two main architectural considerations that need to be evaluated.
Posted June 25, 2014
Violin Memory, Inc., a provider of all-flash storage arrays and appliances, has announced the availability of the Violin 6200 Series All Flash Array for the SAP HANA platform. Certification for the solution with SAP HANA was achieved by working in conjunction with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The new SAP-certified solution complements existing solutions from Violin for SAP IQ software and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE).
Posted June 25, 2014
GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of in-memory computing and cloud orchestration technologies, and SanDisk Corp., a provider of flash storage solutions, have formed a partnership resulting in a new solution called GigaSpaces' XAP MemoryXtend.
Posted June 24, 2014
Splunk, aprovider of a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Syncsort, a provider of big data software, have formed a technical alliance aimed at unlocking insights from machine data generated by mainframe systems, a critical and major source of corporate data. The companies say they have joint customers, including top telcos, retailers, insurance, healthcare and financial organizations, who rely heavily on mainframes for critical business operations, but have had difficulty leveraging mainframe data for business insights.
Posted June 24, 2014
While much has been (inaccurately) written about the mainframe's demise, the real crisis is around the prevalence of skilled developers who will understand how to work on it in the future, said Compuware's Ian Clarke in a recent Q&A with TechRadar Pro.
Posted June 23, 2014
Serena Dimensions CM 14, the newest version of Serena Software's process-based software change and configuration management product, enables global collaborative parallel development, in which development teams streamline and automate their development practices, visualize and minimize conflicts, reduce compliance risk and assure a high degree of software release readiness.
Posted June 23, 2014
Cloud management provider SoftLayer has launched a service designed to enable enterprises to establish a dedicated network connection from their own IT infrastructure to SoftLayer private network and cloud services. The new service, Direct Link, provides a hybrid cloud solution.
Posted June 23, 2014
To accelerate the adoption of open technologies for cloud computing, IBM said it is working on an open integration model with Docker, an open source platform for developers and systems administrators to build, ship, and run distributed applications, and the open source Docker project community.
Posted June 23, 2014
The next generation of Power Systems servers from IBM incorporate its Power8 processor, which is available for license and open for development through the OpenPower Foundation. IBM said it designed the new servers specifically for a new era of big data.
Posted June 23, 2014
CloudFactory 8.0, the latest version of ASG Software's cloud orchestration suite, is designed to provide enterprises a single tool to manage all existing IT environments and resources, including mainframes, distributed and virtualized workloads - alongside public cloud resources and software investments under one management platform.
Posted June 23, 2014
Cisco is buying Stockholm-based Tail-f Systems, which provides multi-vendor network service orchestration solutions for traditional and virtualized networks.
Posted June 23, 2014
To speed up deployment of software as a service-based projects. CA Technologies has introduced a mobile-ready, SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution called CA Cloud Service Management.
Posted June 23, 2014
MICROS Systems, Inc., a provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Oracle. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2014, with a purchase price that represents a fully-diluted equity value of approximately $5.3 billion, or $4.6 billion net of cash.
Posted June 23, 2014
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), has formed an Enterprise Manager Special Interest Group (SIG) to enable OAUG members using Oracle Enterprise Manager to more effectively share educational information and best practices related to the Applications functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Posted June 17, 2014
Fusion-io, a developer of flash-based PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) hardware and software solutions has agreed to be acquired by SanDisk Corp., a provider of flash storage solutions. The acquisition will be an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion, net of cash assumed.
Posted June 17, 2014
Oracle president Mark Hurd and Oracle executive vice president John Fowler showcased Solaris 11.2 during a recent event in New York City. A complete, integrated and open platform engineered for large-scale cloud environments, Solaris 11.2 combines OpenStack, SDN technology, clustering, and virtualization with an enterprise-class OS. Oracle Solaris is one of two operating system options for Oracle Exadata, and is described by Oracle as a key building block that provides mission-critical reliability, performance, and security that are essential for database consolidation. According to Hurd, cloud and engineered systems are both driven by the same requirement, which is the need to transfer work from the IT budget to the R&D budget to make things work more efficiently.
Posted June 11, 2014
With Oracle's new ZS3 Series for backup, Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-BA, the company is providing customers with a pre-configured, pre-racked solution co-engineered with Oracle Database to provide extreme backup and restore performance to help meet SLAs. According to Oracle, ZS3-BA helps ensure backup and recovery SLAs are met by scaling to 26 TB/hr for full backups and 17 TB/hr for full restores - a 30% increase for backups and 80% increase for restores over the previous generation.
Posted June 11, 2014
MySQL Fabric is now generally available, providing an integrated system that makes it simpler to manage groups of MySQL databases. It delivers both high availability - via failure detection and failover - and scalability through automated data sharding.
Posted June 11, 2014
Oracle has joined the OpenDaylight Project as a Silver Member, and is expanding its application-driven software defined networking (SDN) capabilities in Oracle Solaris 11.2 with plans to integrate OpenDaylight SDN. The aim with the new integration is to help customers improve service quality and take advantage of apps-to-disk SLAs through compatibility with a range of SDN devices, applications and services. It will also allow them to use a common and open SDN platform with OpenStack to manage Oracle Solaris-based clouds.
Posted June 11, 2014
Oracle has released Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 which includes a richer service catalog for database as a service, enhanced database and middleware management, and automation for broader cloud services.
Posted June 11, 2014
Although big data promises to dramatically alter the business environment, technology is only a decision enabler.
Posted June 11, 2014
In 2013, Bon Ton Stores invested in upgrading IT, continuing to update and expand its eCommerce sites, and launching a new mobile site supporting delivery of promotions and online purchasing.
Posted June 11, 2014
Less than a year after announcing a $1 billion commitment to Linux on Power, IBM has delivered new Power Systems running Linux. The new scale out Power Systems are built from the ground up to harness big data with the new IBM POWER8 processor, a sliver of silicon that measures just one square inch, which is embedded with more than 4 billion microscopic transistors and more than 11 miles of high-speed copper wiring.
Posted June 11, 2014
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In a new blog post, Adam Jollans, Program Director - Cross-IBM Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM Systems & Technology Group, highlighted why RHEL 7 is significant for Red Hat, IBM, and most importantly customers.
Posted June 11, 2014
Enterprise data growth is coming from unstructured, social media, and machine-generated data. The resulting storage issues are impacting the performance of associated applications and systems. How and where is this data going to be stored—and how can it be made available, on demand, to users and applications that need information right away?
Posted June 11, 2014
Today, many businesses are looking for ways to rationalize their mainframe capacity in order to contain MIPS growth as well as defer costly upgrades. Unfortunately, some of these stopgap measures involve costly trade-offs, such as keeping only the most recent or even archiving critical data to tape. This can mean that valuable information goes untapped.
Posted June 11, 2014
It's more than just a passing fad when nearly three-quarters of mainframe users are considering or in the midst of big data projects.
Posted June 09, 2014
The latest release of Fusion-io's Atomic Series is built on foundational technology achievements with the latest third-generation Fusion-io memory-based architecture. Flash powers applications that demand more performance and less infrastructure. According to Fusion-io, the series is architected for application acceleration through innovative software advancements, providing the ability to deliver higher performance than typical solid-state disks in less space.
Posted June 09, 2014
IBM is supporting the SAP HANA platform, the SAP HANA ONE service and other SAP applications on IBM's SoftLayer solution set. SAP has verified the SoftLayer platform to run SAP applications, including SAP Business Suite software and SAP BusinessObjects solutions.
Posted June 09, 2014
SAP has certified the integration of CA Technologies' workload management solution with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution, enabling CA Workload Automation AE 11.3 (formerly CA AutoSys) customers to use SAP Solution Manager to manage and monitor business processes in SAP solutions.
Posted June 09, 2014
Progress has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendor Modulus, a privately-held company that provides a Node.js and MongoDB cloud platform that is designed to simplify and speed development of business and consumer apps.
Posted June 09, 2014
STORServer is offering CommVault-Dell appliance customers the opportunity to evaluate or upgrade their current systems risk-free and at a discount in the wake of Dell's announcement that it is ending sales of backup appliances powered by CommVault Simpana. The options for current CommVault-Dell appliance customers to evaluate their current backup environments include 50% off a Health Check as well as a free software upgrade from Simpana 8 or 9 to version 10.
Posted June 09, 2014
MapR has launched a Hadoop application gallery to make it easier for companies to find solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem. The company also announced a partnership with Syncsort targeted at helping customers move their mission-critical workloads to Hadoop.
Posted June 03, 2014
More than 1,000 developers and Tizen contributors are expected to meet in San Francisco for the 3-day Tizen Developer Conference, which focuses exclusively on the developer ecosystem around the Tizen open source operating system for converged devices. "Whether you are a platform developer wanting to use Tizen or an app developer who wants to build apps for deployment on Tizen, this is the only place you want to go. The whole point of the Tizen Developer Conference is knowledge transfer," said Brian Warner, manager of the Tizen Project.
Posted May 28, 2014
To improve cloud and data interoperability, and deliver new mobile and productivity solutions for joint customers, Microsoft and SAP are expanding their partnership of more than 20 years.
Posted May 28, 2014
Helping customers move toward a software-defined data center architecture, SAP AG and VMware announced the HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use has been released to customers.
Posted May 28, 2014
Oracle Tuxedo 12c, an application server for the deployment of C/C++/COBOL/Java enterprise workloads in private and public cloud environments, has added improvements for better reliability, availability, performance and scalability for conventional and enterprise cloud applications.
Posted May 28, 2014
Oracle has agreed to acquire GreenBytes, a provider of ZFS technology founded in 2007 with domain expertise in deduplication, replication, and virtualization. Oracle said that GreenBytes' technology complements its own storage solutions and is expected to enhance Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliances. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2014.
Posted May 28, 2014
R/Link, a comprehensive, secure file sharing, managed file transfer, and universal information access solution that resides on a customer's network or private cloud, will be showcased in a webcast presented by Rocket Software. The webcast will be presented on Thursday, May 29, at two times - 9 am MT and 4 pm MT.
Posted May 28, 2014
OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, the next generation of Red Hat's on premise platform-as-a-service offering, adds improvements to further enable DevOps practices through the delivery of new capabilities that bring development and operations closer together.
Posted May 27, 2014
Expanding their 23-year relationship, Cisco and Dimension Data will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint.
Posted May 27, 2014
Cetan Corp., whose vertical market expertise and professional services in workload management complement CA Technologies' portfolio of strategic workload automation solutions for distributed, cloud and IBM System z platforms, has joined the CA Global Partner Program as an advanced partner.
Posted May 27, 2014
Endace Fusion Connector for Compuware APM's Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DC RUM), is a new application-aware network performance management solution, created jointly by Compuware and Emulex. The companies are partnering to help deliver a new generation of application performance management (APM) solutions.
Posted May 27, 2014