Commvault storage suite gets souped
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Meet Simpana Commvault Systems is rolling out a major product overhaul and re-branding of its storage software. The product revamp includes improved performance, new security tools, de-duplication technology, and new search capabilities and indexing for better access to data.â¦
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Continuing the thread on commoditization of scalable server software, the third installment. Yesterday, Matt Tucker from the OpenFire community, said: "I'm not sure that S3 magically kills off the scaling priests. It certainly makes it easy to turn on more storage resources, but writing an application to scale efficiently across multiple virtual machines is no easy task." To which I responded... It won't make scaling obsolete, but what it does do is commodify it. Right now I can't buy a Jabber server that scales without also hiring someone who will scale it for me. But in a few years I should be able to buy a Jabber server that, when it needs more CPUs, just asks for them all transparently to the user, the same way my word processor asks the OS for more memory today. I remember word processors that didn't do memory management, you got a 64K buffer and that's it. One document. When you filled it up, you started another. Technology will go forward and scaling won't be a black art, it'll be something built into the software you license.
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I can imagine the mass deployment of virtualized storage controllers. The heyday of RAID controllers is coming to an end. It has me thinking about the mass consumption of virtualization, which leads me to another thought: the mass deployment of embedded virtualized processes.
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InfoWorld - I've been on a bit of a green kick around here for the past few months. A computer lab is notoriously power hungry, with servers running at 100 percent utilization for days on end, generating traffic or running test harnesses. There are certain areas where I can make some reductions, however, such as collapsing a half-dozen less-utilized boxes onto a single VMware ESX server. There are some other ways, too.
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Virtual circle EMC Corporation has announced new data deduplication capabilities in EMC Avamar version 3.7, which now also supports VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) for the protection and reduction of backup times within and across virtual machines.â¦
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AMERICAN FORK, Utah - With videos, pictures and reams of other data piling up on computers everywhere, consumers who want some insurance against losing it all have a growing number of online backup options.
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Stock fails HA test too The poor SCO Group can't get much right these days, including keeping its high availability clusters highly available.â¦
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Partitioning an array and/or a storage network may not be enough to satisfy air-gap sensitive users.
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Storage Expo WORM and a spec for LTO-4 due this year
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The Windows Future Storage (WinFS) technology that got cut out of Windows &quot;Longhorn&quot; is in serious trouble, and not just the hot water a feature might encounter for missing its intended production vehicle.
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As reported here on Secunia (as discovered by shinnai), there's a code execution vulnerability in PHP's glob function:    The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of an uninitialized structure inside the "glob()" function. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code, which may lead to security restrictions (e.g. the "disable_functions" directive) being bypassed.   The vulnerability is confirmed in the 5.2.3 win32 installer. Other versions may also be affected.    The issue is marked as "less critical" and can be avoided easily by only allowing trusted users the correct permissions to execute PHP code on the server.
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SharePoint servers on virtual machines and to perform regular VSS snapshots, later backing them up offline
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Officials at Computer Associates International Inc. are trying to upgrade their image in the storage market with a bundled solution that contains many applications that were previously available individually
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Undetected by most AV apps Security mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to a the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to detect and even harder to remove.â¦
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Cluster a Go Go Longtime acquisition suspect PolyServe has been eaten by HP.â¦
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With the price of disk storage plummeting, the storage capacity administrators find themselves managing is set to explode. But, the simple introduction of network block virtualization permits the use of underutilized storage management technologies such as mirroring, snapshots and replication on a much broader scale.