4TB-Festplatten bringen RAID 6 an seine Grenzen - Höhere Rebuild-Zeiten erfordern Triple Parity von Heiko Wüst, Nexenta Systems

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Industry’s fastest Big Data storage platform?

DataDirect Networks (DDN) maintains its lead in supporting the largest Big Data, High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud and data-intensive environments with the introduction today of its new SFA12K® X series (SFA12KX), the industry’s fastest family of storage appliance platforms.

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Palo Alto Networks and VMware ‘transform’ Cloud deployments

Palo Alto Networks® and VMware, Inc. have announced a partnership backed by a new jointly-developed solution. The integrated solution will enable customers to use the VMware NSX™ network virtualisation platform to automate provisioning and distribution of Palo Alto Networks next-generation network security in their software-defined data centres.

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Three UK building societies choose Unisys

New managed services solution will provide predictable delivery costs and support for regulatory compliance to Ipswich, Loughborough and Dudley Building Societies.

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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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