Forget networking, the data center of the future is software defined too
Stacey Higginbotham- Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Software defined networking made a big splash last week at the Interop show in Las Vegas with a variety of vendors pitching their vision of how abstracting out networking from the physical hardware will change the overall way IT services are implemented. But the most disruptive element of the entire software defined networking trend is that it enables the next era of IT, the software defined data center, a concept Steve Herrod the CTO of VMware introduced at the show. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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EMC offers IaaS dashboard widgets
EMC’s new DataBridge management software lets users create customizable dashboards for IT-as-a-service operations. Customers can create DataBridge widgets by combining data from EMC and other products using REST APIs, SOAP and JAVA programmable interfaces, XML, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint lists and Excel files. Customers can drag and drop DataBridge widgets from a library to build dashboards.
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Associated Press adopts big data approach to archive
The Associated Press (AP) has launched a content analysis tool to search the millions of articles in its archives. It's powered by MarkLogic, a big data vendor and replaces relational database systems.
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Cloud Security Alliance focuses on mobile
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced two significant new initiatives for 2012, addressing growing areas of need in cloud security – mobile computing and innovation.
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RSA and Zscaler secure cloud identities
RSA and Zscaler are collaborating to develop a new cloud-based service to help secure access and identities in the cloud.
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Microsoft breaks big data sorting record
It’s rare to hear Microsoft breaking any kind of record these days, which is why I thought this one in the big data arena was worth noting. The Redmond software behemoth just beat the MinuteSort benchmark, or the amount of data that can be sorted in 60 seconds or less. The Microsoft team sorted almost three times the amount of data (1,401 gigabytes vs. 500 gigabytes) with about one-sixth the hardware resources (1,033 disks across 250 machines versus 5,624 disks across 1,406 machines) used by the previous record holder, a team from Yahoo! that set the mark in 2009. Microsoft expects to use the research to power its bing search engine, but says its breakthrough technology and approach to the sorting challenge would be applicable to any big data application that required high performance.
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I read a post about Node.js that gave me pause. It's certainly the new shiny thing but should be used with caution: http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
