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Tegile Systems Zebi Storage Arrays announcement

martin237 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:37:21 +0000

http://www.tegile.com/company/news-and-events/press-release-29

Newark, Calif. – June 17, 2013 – Tegile Systems, a leading provider of hybrid storage arrays for virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today announced that its Zebi™ line of hybrid storage arrays are now available through Promark Technology’s General Services Administration (GSA) schedule to customers in the public sector.

VARs and system integrators can now leverage Promark’s two-tier distribution channel to resell Tegile Zebi storage arrays to federal, state and local government customers even if they do not hold a GSA contract of their own, empowering them with the opportunity to fulfill government orders they may not otherwise have been qualified to provide.

“Having the Zebi storage arrays available on our GSA Schedule is very beneficial for both Promark and Tegile Systems,” said Dale Foster, General Manager of Promark, “The GSA procurement process will open up a lot of opportunities within the public sector for both organizations.”

GSA schedules serve as the catalyst for billions of dollars in federal spending by helping government employees purchase products and services through pre-negotiated prices, terms and conditions. In addition to being on Promark′s GSA, Tegile’s Zebi arrays are available through Promark′s commercial distribution channel.

“Whether public or private, all organizations require a comprehensive and intelligent approach to their data storage needs utilizing the best technological resources available on the market today,” said David Steward, founder and Chariman of World Wide Technology Inc. “Tegile Zebi arrays, with their ability to deliver the performance, capacity and cost benefits needed for today’s increasingly virtualized storage environments, are among the best. By being included in Promark’s GSA offerings, the process of fulfilling and implementing Tegile at government organizations is streamlined and simplified, meaning that we can solve our customers’ data challenges quickly.”

Tegile’s announcement that their hybrid storage arrays are now available to public sector customers in the US is great news, opening up not only market opportunities for Tegile but extending choice for the public sector in virtualisation and storage which has to be a good thing. I wonder if this might increase interest for Tegile based virtual desktop solutions, even cloud desktop for the public sector, we’ll have to see.

Systar enhances OmniVision

martin237 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:20:38 +0000

http://www.systar.com/files/public/uploads/2013-06-18-10-58-59/en_systar_omnivision_service_capacity_forecast_2013.pdf

ST. CLOUD, France and Vienna, VA, June 18th, 2013 – Systar (ISIN: FR0000052854-SAR), a leading provider of Operational Intelligence software, today announced the launch of Service Capacity Forecast, a new service-oriented capacity planning report for IT production.

This report extends OmniVision, Systar’s proven Capacity and Performance Management suite of solutions in Europe. Already adopted by several clients, this new report allows them to be proactive by anticipating business needs, planning IT budgets and charging back internal customers based on resources actually consumed.

Unique in the market, Service Capacity Forecast allows IT managers to make simulations in order to avoid contentions or saturations and take into account phenomena linked to seasonality or unusual periods such as sales offers, holidays in transportation or end of month for HR applications.

I’ve used their OmniVision product before, anything they can do to improve the reporting and transparency in terms of capacity management and cost transparency has to be a good thing. I’m off to see what’s changed since I last used it, capacity management and cost transparency continue to be key areas of focus in many enterprises.

HP Discover opening general session and other content is now online

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:29:54 +0000

If you missed the keynote from Meg Whitman and wanted to see it (there is an introduction by Kevin Bacon which is interesting as well), you can watch it online at www.hp.com/go/discover, the actual video is below as well. HP Discover looked like a great event this year, It’s a shame I wasn’t able to make it, do check out all the content online:

HP Expands Converged Storage Portfolio

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:26:32 +0000

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1416089

HP Expands Converged Storage Portfolio New solutions deliver all-flash array performance and enable backup-as-a-service using software-defined storage

LAS VEGAS, June 11, 2013 — HP today expanded the company’s Converged Storage portfolio with a solid-state optimized all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ system that delivers performance and low latency without compromising enterprise resiliency or adding datacenter complexity.

HP also has extended its six-year lead in software-defined storage with a new HP StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) that cuts the cost of small site backup by up to 65 percent.(1)

“It’s impossible for organizations to deal with unpredictable workloads cost effectively if they’re managing disparate storage silos,” said David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Division, HP. “With the new 3PAR StoreServ and StoreOnce innovations, customers get best-in-class, purpose-built solutions to address critical new requirements while retaining the simplicity that comes from an approach that can manage and serve a variety of needs without creating new storage silos.”

The all flash solid state array is very impressive and will deliver amazing results which will not only resolve some customers existing storage or application performance issues, it might also create opportunities which couldn’t have been achieved due to issues with latency or the speed of delivery.

The additional software, san infrastructure and focus on data backup expands upon their existing storage offering to increase efficiency and reduce costs which are both significant innovations for their customers. Do check out the announcement for more of the specific announcements.

HP Introduces New SMB Servers that Simplify IT, Boost Business Productivity

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:17:40 +0000

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1425031

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced new and enhanced HP ProLiant servers that help small and midsized businesses (SMBs) accelerate business results by simplifying the deployment, management and maintenance of their IT infrastructure.

SMBs can be challenged by limited financial and human resources when responding to growing customer demands and evolving business needs. Smaller enterprises, such as retail stores, medical practices and real estate offices need simple, scalable and cost-effective solutions to power their businesses.

Based on current buying trends, at least 5.1 million small businesses worldwide will purchase their first server within the next five years, according to AMI Partners, a global strategy consulting firm.⁽¹⁾

The new HP ProLiant MicroServer Generation 8 (Gen8) is an ideal first server that provides simplified setup, management and maintenance with innovative HP Smart Technologies. The HP MicroServer offers centralized, anywhere, anytime data access to employees to boost productivity and collaboration through data sharing—and it is small and quiet enough to sit on a desk.

Further expanding the HP ProLiant server portfolio, HP today also announced cost-optimized solutions for micro and SMB clients that provide the reliability, flexibility and scalability needed to accommodate current and future business needs. New solutions include the HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 and HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2.

Further choice and innovation with server models aimed to meet micro and SMB clients has to be a good thing in helping the customer find the right solution for them. I wonder if these devices could not also be used as the gateway to HP Cloud Services, for application streaming, cloud service data caching, as the vehicle through which end users can consume application, middleware, database and services to their device. Most importantly as an owner of two HP ProLiant MicroServers and a fan therefore you might say, it’s great to see it being brought up to date with the Gen8 features, I love the new design! Their form factor and specs still lend them to being an ideal NAS device or virtualization lab in a box solution.

HP and Google to Simplify IT for Small and Medium Businesses

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:12:31 +0000

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1425366

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the first phase of HP SMB IT in a Box—a “one-stop shop” technology solution for small and medium business (SMB) customers.

Marked by HP’s entry into the Google Apps Reseller program today, HP SMB IT in a Box will leverage existing innovative HP hardware, including PCs and printers, with Google Apps for Business, Google’s easy-to-use, cloud-based communication and collaboration tools. More than 5 million businesses currently run on Google Apps for Business, which includes Gmail, IM, Calendar, Drive, Docs and more. With HP’s unique management software layer and minimal setup, HP SMB IT in a Box can simplify customers’ IT environment and help reduce their operating costs and infrastructure requirements while improving their workflows and workforce productivity.

This initiative represents HP’s latest collaboration with Google. HP already offers a number of products based on Google’s Android and Chrome operating systems including the HP SlateBook x2, HP Slate⁷ and the HP Chromebook.

If HP and Google can deliver accessible solutions for the SMB, they could extend this to capitalise on bolt on services based around cloud technology for backup and applications down the wire for additional revenue and end user experience. I do love the concept, leveraging the best of Google’s applications to deliver everything a small business needs sounds very cool, their HP SMB IT in a Box solution therefore does really appeal, I wonder if this will be include a HP ProLiant MicroServer based offering, very smart and very exciting!

20th Century Fox Partners with HP to Deliver Converged Cloud Digital Enterprise

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:06:55 +0000

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1425612

LAS VEGAS — HP today announced that 20th Century Fox (Fox) has selected HP as its strategic cloud partner, using the power of the cloud to drive business growth through increased agility while ensuring that its entertainment assets remain secure.

Fox’s cloud initiative will enable IT to offer agile, scalable and cost-effective services to the Fox Business Units that leverage the Fox Enterprise Media Framework (EMF), a mission-critical set of capabilities for managing, collaborating and distributing media assets globally.

The entertainment industry’s digital transformation has placed huge demands on Fox’s IT environment. By migrating its traditional IT infrastructure to a converged cloud solution, Fox is driving out IT costs while supporting business innovation.

“We continue to build upon our world-class digital supply chain by transforming into a cloud-enabled enterprise, providing the scalability and agility our business partners demand,” said John Herbert, executive vice president and chief information officer, 20th Century Fox. “In addition to media management, this highly efficient, cost-competitive cloud solution provides an ideal environment to support our internal cross-divisional customer needs.”

As a result of this transformation, Fox will further align business and IT, accelerating enterprise agility and shared services responsiveness. The converged cloud enterprise framework will be powered by an HP CloudSystem Enterprise including HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP Cloud Service Automation, and HP Database and Middleware Automation to deliver true cloud pooling of resources. This will allow Fox to provide real-time consumption and capacity monitoring, resulting in transparent and competitive cost structures. Fox also plans to use the bursting capability of HP CloudSystem to burst to HP’s public cloud when peak demand requires additional capacity.

It’s interesting to understand the drivers behind the adoption of HP as their strategic cloud partner and also to understand the technologies being leveraged in order to deliver the functionality and business requirements. Do check it out.

HP Unleashes the Power of Big Data

martin237 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:04:16 +0000

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1416090

LAS VEGAS, June 11, 2013 — HP today announced an expanded big data portfolio designed to enable organizations to gain better insight into their data and deliver real-time outcomes.

According to research commissioned on behalf of HP,(1) nearly 60 percent of companies surveyed will spend at least 10 percent of their innovation budget on big data this year. The study also found, however, that more than one in three organizations have failed with a big data initiative. HP’s enhanced portfolio delivers the necessary services and solutions to facilitate the successful implementation of these initiatives, and to enable enterprises to handle the growing volume, variety, velocity and vulnerability of data that can cause these initiatives to fail.

To help organizations reap the rewards of big data, HP announced HAVEn, a big data analytics platform, which leverages HP’s analytics software, hardware and services to create the next generation of big data-ready analytics applications and solutions.

HP is continuing to focus on expanding it’s portfolio of hardware, software and services to provide solutions that meet their customers end to end business needs in the big data space, I’m off to check it out.

Red Hat brings us building blocks to the open hybrid cloud

martin237 — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:57:28 +0000

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/6/red-hat-announces-red-hat-storage-integration-with-red-hat-openstack

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the integration of Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack to provide customers with a proven storage and compute solution with the benefit of being engineered and supported in concert by one company. Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack give customers a full-featured storage and compute solution today, a platform for innovation tomorrow, and a smooth support experience during the journey to open hybrid cloud.

Using Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack make it easier to deploy and manage the enterprise and public cloud with its unified storage services for OpenStack supporting Block Storage (Cinder), Image Service (Glance) and Object Storage (Swift) from the same storage pool. Red Hat Storage has the ability to run storage and compute services on the same physical or virtual server to further reduce the cost of OpenStack infrastructure. Red Hat’s open software-defined storage capabilities that run exclusively in user space is a key enabler for future OpenStack storage innovation like File-as-a-Service and Hadoop running on OpenStack. Red Hat expects to be a catalyst in driving community-driven innovation in these and other areas with the goal of delivering the best functionality and user experience for enterprises deploying storage in an open source cloud infrastructure.

It’s great to see continued innovation in the OpenStack space from Red Hat and further commitment to providing their customers with the tools they need for today and for open hybrid cloud tomorrow. I’m off to read more.

Hortonworks and Red Hat Extend Collaboration

martin237 — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:40:48 +0000

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/6/hortonworks-and-red-hat-extend-collaboration-innovate-within-the-apache-software-foundation-community

Hortonworks, a leading contributor and enabler to enterprise Apache Hadoop, and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an engineering collaboration to advance open source big data community projects. Working with the ApacheTM Hadoop® Community, the Hortonworks and Red Hat engineering teams will work together to accelerate the enablement of the broader file system ecosystem to be used with Apache Hadoop. The companies also announced the integration and support of Hortonworks Data Platform with Red Hat Storage, which can reduce a Hadoop cluster cost by up to 50 percent since customers can now run Hadoop directly on a POSIX-compliant storage node.

The Hortonworks and Red Hat engineering effort has three main focus areas and is expected to increase the breadth of storage offerings that integrate and interoperate with Hadoop, making it possible to analyze data in place anywhere within the enterprise.

The first focus area is to enhance the Apache Ambari project, the open source project to monitor and manage Apache Hadoop to support the management of Hadoop-compatible file systems, such as GlusterFS. With this integration, users will be able to provision, deploy, monitor and manage alternative file systems with Ambari. The source code is 100 percent open and available to the entire Apache community, allowing participants to leverage these features to enable the implementation of many of the leading file systems and object stores available today.

Red Hat and Hortonworks collaborating on open source big data community projects is great news and illustrates the commitment from both in big data as a vehicle to empower customers to meet their business objectives. It’s great to see it’s open source, it will be interesting to see what solutions, applications and services we will result from this collaboration.