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Netapp.com

NetApp is a key partner in both the UCS launch and the Data Center Channel Solutions program. NetApp already has a very strategic relationship with Cisco. For example, we teamed with Cisco and VMware to announce support for the industry’s first (and still only) native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage array; we resell the Cisco Nexus 5000 and MDS product lines; and we recently kicked off a nine-city “Virtualized Dynamic Data Center Roadshow” with NetApp, Cisco, VMware, and select solution integrator partners. This end-to-end virtualized data center roadshow highlights the “one architecture: three industry leaders” approach, which has proven successful with many customers.

NetApp IT is using Cisco Nexus and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in our Dynamic Data Center lab in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. NetApp and Cisco have worked together to develop an Ethernet Unification Center of Excellence on NetApp’s campus in RTP that features Ethernet-based protocols running on a Cisco 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone and have also worked together to provide similar demonstrations at Cisco’s Data Center Network Application Lab (DNA Lab) in San Jose, California.

NetApp and Cisco together provide unified storage and computing

With the UCS announcement, Cisco now provides the networking/fabric and server infrastructure for a dynamic data center. NetApp adds the storage platform that completes the offering. NetApp is a proven storage solution given its industry leadership in Ethernet-based unified storage and data management. Unlike EMC, NetApp and Cisco are the perfect marriage: NetApp with unified storage and Cisco with unified computing and unified networking, plus our mutual strong synergies with VMware, Oracle, and Microsoft.

The Virtualized Dynamic Data Center from NetApp and Cisco provides a solution platform that can be used across a broad range of application workloads.  NetApp has solutions for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Sharepoint, VMware, Oracle and SAP  – each taking advantage of NetApp’s  policy-based storage management capability.  Contrasted with EMC, which recently announced an Exchange solution based on Cisco’s UCS, NetApp creates the underlying foundation to provide greater efficiency and flexibility across many application areas on a unified storage architecture.

NetApp and Cisco joint value proposition:

·      Network unification and I/O consolidation with proven unified storage and fabrics

·      TCO reduction through data center simplification

·      Data center consolidation with investment protection

·      Increased business agility through VM-aware optimized solutions

·      Best practices 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions

I think we’ll see more of unified storage and increasingly it could be the way forward, being able to send the network and storage down one patch could reduce the time to deployment significantly, be more efficient operationally, and bring the elements we need to bring our infrastructure to the next generation, a more dynamic and fluid IT ready for business. Interestingly, could the unification of storage and network be the ‘enabler’ for the small/medium businesses to join the virtualization concept?

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Barbera met spuma naturale van het huis. Weet dat de meningen verdeeld zijn, maar hier in Italie zeg ik er zeker geen nee tegen.

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De wijn is desondanks Pigato op het moment. Wel aan de zee, maar het weer zit niet helemaal mee…

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Blijf in de Romeinse sferen. Luni aangedaan, beste wijn toen volgens Plinius. Stadje opgetrokken van marmer. Maar gedeeltelijk opgegraven.

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Eindelijk dan toch gelukt: een glas falanghina van trabucco. Zal wel anders zijn dan falernum van vroeger tijden maar zeer de moeite waard.

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In anderhalf uur naar piazza barberini in Rome. Bijna net zo lang als je in Napels doet over straat oversteken.

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Aan de pizza marinara in Napels. Straks proberen of ik wat lokale wijnen te pakken kan krijgen. Ischia, Falerno, Fiano, Taurasi.

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De Bolgheri avond die eerder in het water viel staat nu op 11 april…

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PRNewswire

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ — 3Tera(R), Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announces a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for its award-winning AppLogic(TM) Virtual Private Datacenter (VPDC) service. Beginning in April, 3Tera’s VPDC service will include a 99.999 percent availability SLA designed to give customers confidence and ensure that they can use the cloud to quickly deploy and operate even their most critical services and applications on a highly available and scalable platform.

“IT architects and system administrators who leverage cloud computing shouldn’t have to compromise the availability of their systems,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc. “3Tera is committed to using all commercially reasonable efforts to achieve at least 99.999 percent availability for each user every month. In conjunction with data replication services provided by our Disaster Recovery Suite of appliances, the SLA provides users the ability to build highly available services in the cloud.”

“Achieving five-nines requires a complete system approach – from working with the best datacenter partners, to the architecture of AppLogic itself and even extending into the training of our operations staff,” said Peter Nickolov, President and CTO, 3Tera, Inc. “Offering the SLA ourselves will enable us to aid our partners in achieving five-nines for their AppLogic subscribers as well.”

Discussing availability is an important issue for many, particularly if you are buying in capacity for your application. Understanding therefore what your availability requirements are, what your associated risks to production could be and crucially what terms/issues are to be considered is the cost of doing business. 99.999% per cent availability is an impressive level of uptime for which 3Tera should be congratulated, but remember that your infrastructure and service availability are only as good as the applications and feeds which run on it.

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Doubletake.com

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. – March 19, 2009 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:  DBTK), a leading provider of workload optimization software, today announced the availability of the latest version of its flagship Double-Take® for Windows product and enhancements to other products in the company’s suite including complete platform support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.  Double-Take for Windows solves IT managers’ workload portability and availability challenges by making it easy to migrate physical workloads into virtual machines with minimal user downtime and to protect the uptime of critical workloads on physical and virtual machines by using real-time replication and failover.

“We look forward to utilizing the workload portability features in this new version of Double-Take for P2V migrations. After we migrate the workloads, we will continue to protect them with Double-Take for Hyper-V,” said Matthew Woodings, CTO of HotSchedules, the premier provider of web-based restaurant labor management solutions. “We currently use Double-Take for Hyper-V on many of our virtual servers, because it is cost effective and provides us with the greatest flexibility to use our existing infrastructure, rather than requiring specific hardware solutions as some other virtualization vendors do.”

Anything the vendors and solutions providers can do to aid in the adoption of the different virtual platforms has to be a good thing for end user choice and evolution of virtualization as a platform for business. I’ll need to check out Double-Take’s solution.

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