99% of corporate IT users will be overpaying for storage performance in 2013

In a search for more IOPS to power business critical applications, SME and enterprise users are increasingly turning to solid state storage, but in the process 99% of them will overpay in 2013 for performance they don’t need and sacrifice capacity, according to industry experts at Tegile Systems (www.tegile.com), a provider of hybrid storage arrays for virtualized server and desktop environments.

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Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat team

Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat, Inc. are working together to contribute significantly to Project Savanna under the OpenStack community guidelines to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack. This collaboration aims to provide many benefits including providing open source APIs and simpler transitions when moving Hadoop workloads between public and private clouds because re-tooling will not be required.

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Violin Flash Memory Arrays certified with SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise

Violin Memory, Inc. says that Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays are now certified for interoperability with SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), delivering reliability and accelerated performance across a range of enterprise applications.

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Insider threats and employee-owned devices identified as the greatest risks

New findings from network security management provider AlgoSec also indicate poor change management processes lead to network and application outages.

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Belief in security breaches

A survey conducted recently by Lieberman Software Corporation reveals that more than 70% of IT security professionals would not be willing to bet $100 of their own money that their organization will not suffer a data breach in the next six months.

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Truth and lies about latency in the Cloud

By Jelle Frank Van Der Swet, who manages the pan-European marketing and product development programme for Interxion’s sizeable and fast-growing cloud community.

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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