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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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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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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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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