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Aruba's 802.11ac Rollout Cleans Up Sticky Clients
Aruba Networks is announcing 802.11ac access points and new software that addresses roaming problems caused by “sticky” wireless clients. Read More | View Original Article
VMware Hybrid Cloud Plans: Time For Amazon Answer
VMware is slated to disclose its plans for hybrid cloud computing to its customers Tuesday. This announcement is needed, not because customers demand it, but because VMware needs to do something to arrest Amazon's continued reach inside corporate IT. As VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger explained to partners Feb. 27 in Las Vegas: "We all lose if [enterprise customers] end up in these commodity public clouds. We want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public cloud ... Own the corporate workload now and forever." Read More | View Original Article
VMware preps hybrid cloud service rollout
Australian availability to come. Read More | View Original Article
HGST packs 1.5TB into 9.5-mm, three-platter Travelstar 5K1500 notebook drive
Most of today's 2.5" notebook hard drives top out at an even terabyte. You can find higher-capacity offerings, but those conform to 12.5- and 15-mm versions of the 2.5" form factor, which are meant for external enclosures... Read More | View Original Article
Veeam Courts Enterprises With WAN Acceleration
Built-in WAN acceleration will enable companies to copy data to off-site locations up to 50 times faster than a regular file copy, the company says. Read More | View Original Article
Google, NASA Team On Quantum Computing
NASA's Ames Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has announced plans to host a 512-quantum-bit (qubit), quantum computer at its new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Under terms of the agreement, USRA, a nonprofit research organization, will operate the computer at the Ames facility. Twenty percent of the system's time will be allocated to universities via a competitive selection process. Read More | View Original Article
Deals of the week: IPS displays, graphics cards, storage, and games
We've gathered a pretty nice selection of deals this week. We've got a heavily discounted 23" IPS monitor, a Radeon that's on sale and bundled with three free games, and a couple of juicy storage deals. Take your pick: LG's IPS234V-PN, a 23" 1080p IPS display... Read More | View Original Article
Networking Gets Interesting Again
From software-defined networking to fabrics to powerful new switches, network vendors are fighting for a revitalized market. Read More | View Original Article
Smartphone Theft: What Is Best Defense?
The latest smartphones might feature screens with unparalleled colors and clarity, cutting-edge cameras, and the ability to run a bewildering array of apps. But why don't they build in better loss prevention? That's the gist of a plea issued this week by New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, who's written to the CEOs of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, urging them to "help crack down on cell phone theft" by making it more difficult for thieves to wipe stolen devices' memory and resell the devices. Read More | View Original Article
Release roundup: Flash drives, Thunderbolt, and an arcade controller
This week on the roundup, we've got news about flash drives from Adata, a Thunderbolt-enabled Haswell mobo from ASRock, and an arcade-style fighting game controller from Razer: More value added to Adata's DashDrive series. Say hello to Adata's DashDrive UV150, which brings USB 3.0 connectivity and... Read More | View Original Article
Amazon, Microsoft Partner Up for Cloud Management
New software lets Microsoft System Center users manage both AWS and Windows Azure cloud services from a single console. Read More | View Original Article
Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White have departed the flash memory company just weeks after acquiring NexGen Storage, a startup. Reports say Fusion-io's board wasn't satisfied with revenue growth. Read More | View Original Article
VMware Fights Android BYOD Headaches
VMware announced Wednesday the availability of its Horizon Mobile product for certain Android-based Verizon smartphones. The technology establishes a second instance of Google's mobile OS on a compatible device, allowing employees to keep their personal content separate from an IT-controlled workspace. Read More | View Original Article
Eliminating Noisy Neighbors in the Public Cloud
An IaaS provider is using all-SSD arrays and storage QoS to ensure that some tenants can’t disrupt performance of others by overconsuming resources. Read More | View Original Article
Motorola Launches 802.11ac APs
Motorola joins a growing number of enterprise WLAN players with early 802.11ac products. Here's how its new APs stack up. Read More | View Original Article
At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
Scale-out storage systems have proven to be a perfect remedy for coping with the flood of unstructured data inundating enterprise IT. Whether it's user home directories, email system repositories or rich media file shares, scale-out arrays, where capacity can be quickly increased by adding Lego-like storage nodes, have proven to be easier to deploy and scale than traditional big iron storage systems. Read More | View Original Article
Iron Mountain Opens Underground Data Center to All
The Pennsylvania site will provide data center space and related services, and customers will be able to take advantage of the company's retail colocation offering. Read More | View Original Article
Inside Google's Software-Defined Network
Google shared details on its production use of OpenFlow in its SDN network at this spring's Open Networking Summit. Read More | View Original Article
Software Hot, Hardware Not, At EMC World, Interop
After a week that started at EMC World, where the talk was of storage systems, big data and information-driven applications, and ended at Interop, where the spotlight was on programmable networks, enabling and taming the mobile ecosystem and the "Internet of Things", it's clear that the emphasis across the IT world is rapidly shifting from hardware to software. Read More | View Original Article
Amazon goes large for direct-to-cloud links
Lower costs, better performance mooted. Read More | View Original Article
Knowledge Is Key When Implementing SDN
Companies must confront security concerns and vendor hype when planning and adopting software-defined networking. Read More | View Original Article
Huawei CEO Dismisses Security, Spying Concerns
The founder and CEO of Chinese networking equipment manufacturer Huawei, in his first-ever media interview, Thursday dismissed allegations that backdoors may have been built into the company's products to facilitate Chinese espionage. "Huawei has no connection to the cybersecurity issues the U.S. has encountered in the past, current and future," Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, 68, told local reporters -- through an interpreter -- while on a visit to New Zealand this week, according to news reports. Read More | View Original Article
Deal of the week: 4TB for $184, and other goodies
We'll keep this week's deal post short and sweet, starting with a few hardware bargains: Seagate's Desktop HDD.15 4TB hard drive is down to $183.57 at Amazon. That works out to about 4.6 cents per gigabyte, which is pretty darned cheap. If 1TB hard drives... Read More | View Original Article
Corsair sheds light on Haswell PSU support, lists compatible units
If you were reading TR last week, you probably know about Haswell's new low-power state, which causes compatibility problems with some PSUs. When the story broke, Corsair said it believed all of its PSUs were compatible. However, it was still checking to make sure. Corsair has now publisehd a... Read More | View Original Article
The Best of Interop awards recognize innovative hardware and software that advances the state of the art in IT. Interop’s panel of expert judges poured through 149 submissions in seven categories, including networking, mobility, security and storage. Awards were also presented for Grand Award winner, Best Startup, and Audience Choice. Check out the products that took the prize! Read More | View Original Article
Citrix Merges Repeater Features With CloudBridge
CloudBridge now optimizes WANs; WatchGuard appliances expand Hyper-V support; Aryaka portal monitors more than WANs; Enterasys builds out SDN ecosystem. Read More | View Original Article
Interop: Open Compute Project To Tackle Network Switching
Since Facebook kicked off the Open Compute Project by donating its overall data center design, the OCP Foundation has been chipping away at open sourcing designs for all of the critical components that go into the data center. Next up: network switches. In a keynote speech at Interop, Facebook VP of hardware design and supply chain Frank Frankovsky reviewed two years of progress at expanding the scope of the project, which now includes open designs for server racks and cold storage designs based on how Facebook handles your old photos. Read More | View Original Article
Barracuda Boasts 'Bare Metal' Performance With Eon
Network virtualization platform delivers up to 240 Gbps throughput; Big Switch uses F5 API for cloud orchestration; Dell brings high-performance firewall to midmarket; McAfee acquires Stonesoft; Motorola unveils 11ac access points. Read More | View Original Article
