Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat team

Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat, Inc. are working together to contribute significantly to Project Savanna under the OpenStack community guidelines to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack. This collaboration aims to provide many benefits including providing open source APIs and simpler transitions when moving Hadoop workloads between public and private clouds because re-tooling will not be required.

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Databarracks and NCC launch Guidelines paper for ‘Disaster Recovery in the Cloud’

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, Databarracks (www.databarracks.com), in association with the National Computer Centre (NCC), has launched the Guidelines for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud, aimed at providing practical advice on disaster recovery (DR) when using cloud services.

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99% of corporate IT users will be overpaying for storage performance in 2013

In a search for more IOPS to power business critical applications, SME and enterprise users are increasingly turning to solid state storage, but in the process 99% of them will overpay in 2013 for performance they don’t need and sacrifice capacity, according to industry experts at Tegile Systems (www.tegile.com), a provider of hybrid storage arrays for virtualized server and desktop environments.

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Belief in security breaches

A survey conducted recently by Lieberman Software Corporation reveals that more than 70% of IT security professionals would not be willing to bet $100 of their own money that their organization will not suffer a data breach in the next six months.

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Violin Flash Memory Arrays certified with SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise

Violin Memory, Inc. says that Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays are now certified for interoperability with SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), delivering reliability and accelerated performance across a range of enterprise applications.

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