Campbell, Calif.-based CloudByte’s software promises to “guarantee quality of service to every application from a shared storage platform.” Essentially, the company’s tech brings virtualization and software-defined smarts to storage. Companies can use it to better manage storage for applications in a virtualized data center.

“While the all-flash discussion continues, our software approach allows organizations to optimize their infrastructure based on their requirements and select their preferred storage components,” CloudByte CEO Greg Goelz said in a statement.”Today, most customers are just beginning to deploy SSDs and economics is a key factor in driving their storage solutions.”

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General Electric Co joined forces with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analysed. GE said Amazon Inc is the first online “cloud” service on which it will start creating an “Industrial internet” to tap a market that analysts say could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the decade.

According to technology research group Wikibon, industrial data is expected to grow at two times the rate of any other big data segment over the next decade. Machine-based software and services will include capturing sensor data, performing local processes and real-time industrial analytics. Wikibon estimates total Industrial Internet technology spending will reach $514 billion by 2020. GE said its platform will run across the conglomerate’s interests, from healthcare to energy to transportation.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.itnews.com.au/News/347180,ge-partners-with-aws-for-big-data-project.aspx

Cloud security services provider Marble Security Inc., formerly known as IronKey, announced its new cloud-based mobile security service for protection against cyberattacks and data loss for employee-owned personal devices within the enterprise. While the bring-your-own-device trend (BYOD) is by no means a new blip on IT’s radar, there isn’t one tried-and-true method for enterprise mobile management.

Protecting the mobile perimeter of an enterprise is important because employees have come to expect access to corporate information with their personal smartphones and tablets. Marble Security’s cloud-based security service can help medium-to-large enterprise users access corporate and public networks and cloud services on their mobile device while protecting user privacy, Web browsing and company data, said David Jevans, chief technology officer for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Marble.

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GE still has a long way to go, but Dumbill pointed out that what they are succeeding in bringing from the consumer industry is not just the data analysis, it’s also the ability to move data quickly. “There’s cultural change, we see that with data analytics, tools are half of the problem, culture is the other,” Dumbill stated. “The tooling is the platform,” engineers are so conservative, because if you fiddle with the systems they work with, which generates quite a lot of concern.

“There is a technical shift that really matters,” Dumbill said. “This is the breaking part of data silos and the emergence of Hadoop as a place to put everything. This is starting to transform businesses at a technical level. If you look for a connection, it’s definitely in Hadoop.” Hadoop has become an ecosystem, Dumbill stated “and it’s all about having data in one place and accessible.” “To get to data science you first need to get the data,” Dumbill said, explaining that 80 percent of time is spent on getting data out of data centers.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/06/18/hadoop-is-now-an-ecosystem-brings-all-data-together-makes-it-accessible-industrialcloud/

Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations. New switches include the S140 and S180, which can serve in the campus or data center core. The switches have a system capacity of 2.56Tbps, and can support up to 264 SFP+ 10G, 192 10GBase-T or 48 40G Ethernet ports.

Virtually all major vendors offer 64 port 10G switches. The switches are based on Enterasys’ CoreFlow2 ASIC, which is optimized for classifying users, devices and applications, and enforcing access control and categorization policies associated with them. CoreFlow2 allows the new S series switches to support up to 96 million flows, far exceeding the scalability of OpenFlow, Enterasys officials claim.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions allow IT organizations to deploy and manage virtual user desktops in the data center, eliminating the tedious management of numerous physical desktops. At the same time, virtual desktops allow end users to maintain their own personal desktops with access over remote desktop protocol.

VDI is typically deployed on traditional centralized hard-disk-based storage infrastructures, including large storage-area networks (SANs) or network-attached storage (NAS). As organizations scale to hundreds and thousands of virtual desktops, these traditional storage architectures can be overwhelmed, since VDI causes significant performance degradation due to the drastic fluctuation between average I/O workloads and peak I/O workloads.

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Barracuda on Tuesday released Barracuda Backup version 5.2 featuring Cloud LiveBoot for VMware, a new technology that lets customers that have replicated data to the cloud to boot VMware images using deduplicated data, said Andy Jensen, director of product management for Barracuda storage.

LiveBoot for VMware customers that back up deduplicated and compressed data to a Barracuda Backup Server and from there to the cloud can also back up their VMware ESXi virtual servers with VMware’s vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP), Jensen said. “Customers can now log in to our hosted user interface, go to the restore browser, and get one or more virtual machines up and running in our Barracuda cloud,” he said.

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The plain vanilla server racket may have struggled in the first quarter, but sales of machinery aimed at high performance computing workloads -both traditional simulation workloads and new-fangled “Big Data” jobs – bucked the downward trends in the first quarter, according to the latest research from IDC.

In its latest casing of the HPC server market, IDC reckons that revenues rose by 5.3 per cent to $2.5bn, which stands in the starkest contrast to the overall server market. As El Reg previously reported, worldwide server sales in the first quarter fell by 7.7 per cent to $10.94bn. (Frustratingly, you cannot just subtract these numbers to get a non-HPC server sales number because there are different components and base software included in the two different data sets. Yes, that is stupid.)

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/18/hpc_server_sales_defy_economic_and_governmental_gravity_in_q1/