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Emerging Trends To Watch
Practices For
We run down four of the biggest emerging data
center trends and cover what you need to know
about them to make sure your enterprise is ready. Windows Log
In A Flash
Storage In A Flash..........................................................1
Data Center Redesigns................................................10 Monitoring
Reputation-Based Security..........................................12
A Replacement For Backup Tape................................13
Unlock The Information
Solid-State Drives Are Ushering Data Centers
Outfitting Telecommuting
Buried In Server Logs
& Mobile Workers Into A Speedy, Flash-Based Future
Need help picking the best
mobile device for enterprise
by Kurt Marko
employees? Making sure
by Christian Perry (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
remote workers can easily
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) SERVERS EXCEL AT routinely performing
get and stay connected to the
AS FLASH-BASED storage contin- millions of mundane transactions and are
home network? We talked with
ues to enjoy immense success in equally prodigious in generating a virtual
some industry experts to come
the mobile sector, the technology paper trail by dutifully recording their every
up with these tips. See page 24.
is beginning to garner serious action in log files. According to Lucian
attention on far larger scales. Mocanasu, product manager at GFI Soft-
SSDs, or solid-state drives, ware, a Windows domain controller can gen-
PHYSICAL
are now a viable storage op- erate 100,000 log events per hour, meaning
INFRASTRUCTURE
tion for data centers at small to the output from a rack full of Windows
■Product Spotlight:Environmental Monitoring..page 14 midsized enterprises, thanks to servers in the average day would probably
impressive performance and fill the Manhattan phone book.
NETWORKING & VPN steadily declining prices. Finding meaningful information in such a
“SSDs are a great investment flood of data can be difficult. Yet there are
■The volume of log data generated by the typical
now and an even greater investment compelling reasons enterprises can’t ignore
Windows serveris so vast, and the level of event noise
in the future,” says Bryan Martin, this potential gold mine of information.
so high, that using it requires automation............page 1
enterprise product marketing man- Kerwin Myers, senior product manager for
Speed
■Inexplicable traffic is the cause of many headaches ager for flash-based storage SecureWorks (www.secureworks.com), clas-
Without
for data center managers. We’ll help you discover devices at Dell (www.dell.com). sifies the drivers for server log management
Compare
congestion problems and solve them............page 16 “Immediate benefits and costs into three areas: information security, regula-
savings can be realized with According to Rob tory compliance, and operational trouble-
■International Justice Mission was looking for a way to
today’s SSD-enabled server Ober, a fellow at LSI shooting. Log data can identify attacks and
optimize and accelerate data transfer, application
and storage solutions. Look- (www.lsi.com), SSDs have policy violations and facilitate the forensics
performance, and mobile communicationsover its
ing forward, SSDs will enough attributes that are used to investigate the details and scope of
entire WAN..........................................................page 18
continue to break perfor- attractive enough to prompt any security incidents. Similarly, the data is
■NetEx HyperIP acceleration software helps enterpris- mance records and de- early adopters—including IT man- invaluable in helping IT staff understand,
es better satisfy their performance levelsover any dis- crease in costs while agers, server center architects, and analyze, and solve server problems.
tance of IP-based WAN ....................................page 19 architecture developers administrators—to spend significant The importance of system logs as an inves-
simultaneously contin- money on deployments. Perhaps the tigative tool has been eclipsed in the past
■Virtual environmentshave risen in popularity, but
ue to invent and refine solutions.” most obvious attribute is performance, decade by their necessity for demonstrating
problems arise when virtual machines are improperly
Despite the hype around them, SSDs are by as Ober notes that the raw random access compliance with the alphabet soup of IT-
implemented or managed..................................page 20
no means a complete and perfect replacement performance of SSDs is far higher than related laws and regulations. As Myers’ col-
■One company providing cost-effective asset lifecycle for conventional hard drive technologies, but even 15,000rpm hard disk drives. He adds league Stacey Shelley, product marketing
management tools, including desktop management and they do have value for both short-term needs that a high-performance array of hard manager at SecureWorks, quips, “Not moni-
software licensing, is Scalable Software............page 21 and longer-term strategies. Depending on a drives can be replaced by 10 or 12 SSDs. toring your Windows logs is like setting up a
data center’s current environment and its The benefits don’t end there. Ober also security camera and putting an exit sign in
MESSAGING business goals, it can pay to jump aboard the points to power savings (thanks to the small- front of it.”
& TELEPHONY SSD train without hesitation. er number of required drives), less vibration
What Should Be Recorded
(in turn leading to fewer errors), and the fact
■Product Spotlight: Email Servers................page 22
that hard drives have a large MTBF (mean Windows servers record data into three
Key Points
■Ecessa’s ClariLink-V Series WAN link controllersare time between failures), but those failures repositories—the application, security, and
designed for SIP-application management to ensure the tend to be random, unpredictable, and cata- system logs—which include hundreds of dif-
(cid:127) SSDs boast performance-related bene-
reliability of VoIP applications over the Internet....page 33 strophic. SSDs, on the other hand, can wear ferent event codes; thus, Shelley says, “The
fits that give them the upper hand over
out as writes accumulate, but those wear-out biggest piece is figuring out what you want
conventional hard drives for certain data
STORAGE times are much more predictable. to monitor.” Answering this question and
center tasks, such as online transactional
These attributes can deliver real-world developing a log monitoring strategy requires
■Product Spotlight:SAN Systems................page 28 processing.
advantages for most data centers, but Martin identifying specific business needs—organi-
■E-discovery is concerned with the preservation, (cid:127) Vendors are already prepping products to notes that SSDs are particularly useful for zations needing to comply with PCI or
retrieval, and production of electronic information. And mesh with SSDs, so future adoption of the performance-intensive applications with Sarbox on financial systems will have differ-
even though e-discovery is a legal specialty, it’s vital for IT storage technology shouldn’t prove to be highly random data patterns, such as business ent logging requirements than those trying to
professionals in any enterprise to be involved......page 30 overly painful. processing and decision support systems. harden publicly facing Web servers.
(cid:127) Instead of looking to replace all hard drives “Business processing applications such Interesting log events vary by server
with SSDs, examine the tasks at hand and as online transactional processing [OLTP] type—AD (Active Directory) systems are
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❙ agreement to buy Initiate
■Sometimes, hard drivesdon’t work as they should. 2009 Boxed OS Revenue Up; Systems. Chicago-based, privately
Overall Software Revenue Down
But how can you tell what is wrong and decide whether it owned Initiate is a provider of soft-
can be fixed?......................................................page 31 The good news concerning 2009 U.S. boxed ware that facilitates interagency
■Axxana is staking its reputation on creating a black software sales is that revenue from the retail data sharing for government entities.
OS category climbed 35% from 2008’s total, Initiate’s software also gives healthcare
box for enterprises called an enterprise data recorder
according to The NPD Group. The bad news is organizations master data management
that works with ordinary storage systems to protect a
that, despite the increase, overall revenue of all capabilities for patient and clinical data. IBM
company’s data..................................................page 32
nongame software slipped 7% to $2.4 billion didn’t reveal the financial terms of its latest
in 2009, although the 7% slip is better acquisition; however, the company did indi-
SECURITY
than the 10% decrease in 2008. cate that it would move quickly: It
■Product Spotlight:Antispam Appliances....page 34 Overall, unit volume sank plans to close the deal within
■RedCannon recently released the vDefense security 6% for 2008, while the the first quarter of this year.
appliance, a powerful and unique unified threat man- ASP (average selling ❙ Tech Reseller Sales smartphones, found that in North America, Ap-
price) dipped 2%. ple had a 40% market share, Samsung was in
agement systemthat monitors virtual servers built On The Rebound
Other than OSes, second place with 17%, and Motorola was third
around VMware vSphere....................................page 36
the Business cat- If technology sales to with 11%. Additionally, Android-based phones
egory was the small and midsized grew steadily in 2009, reaching 27% by the
SERVERS
only other to enterprises give any fourth quarter of 2009. In other markets, Nokia
■The American Portwell Technology CAD-0205 is a see a gain in indication about the continues to lead in Africa, Asia, and Eastern
compact and versatile security appliancewith an Intel unit volume (6%), sector’s financial Europe. In Western Europe, Apple’s iPhone and
Atom processor..................................................page 33 although that was health, a modest recov- the iPod touch accounted for more than half of
■Although rumors of RISC’s death are indeed exagger- due in part to a 15% ery may be underway. the total requests. Smartphone use accounted
drop in ASPs, caus- So says new data from for about 14% of mobile device traffic.
ated, many RISC serversare at or past their useful
lives, leaving IT managers the decision to keep riding the ing the category to take The NPD Group’s Reseller ❙ Report: Android To See Big Gain
a 10% revenue hit. Only Tracking Service, which deter-
proprietary RISC-UNIX technology train or transition to In Mobile OS Share
the OS category posted mined that commercial resellers in
x86 servers........................................................page 37
increases in both units (162%) and rev- the United States sold $1.6 billion in tech If IDC’s recent predictions hold true, not only
■Server management can be a struggle for small to enue (35%) for the year, spurred on by new goods in December, up about 7% over De- will Google’s Android grow at the fastest clip
midsized enterprises for a number of reasons. Here are OS releases from Microsoft and Apple during cember 2008. Desktop computers posted the among mobile OSes between now and 2013, it
some ways to simplify the process....................page 38 2009’s second half. Elsewhere, the Finance strongest revenue gains (40% annually), but will also be the second most used mobile OS
category dipped 12% in revenue and 18% in notebooks logged the greatest increase in units behind Nokia’s Symbian. IDC also predicted in
SERVICES unit volume, the Imaging/Graphics category shipped (42%) year over year. NPD believes its Worldwide Mobile OS 2009-2013 Forecast
■NaviSite is at the forefront of the utility computing fell 10% and 6%, and System Utilities fell 5% that said resellers provide telling insight into and Analysis report that by 2013, global smart-
and 8%. According to NPD, the outlook for SME spending behavior and thus into the over- phone shipments will pass 390 million, growing
revolution, in which data centers can purchase comput-
2010 calls for similar sales results, with the all fiscal situation in which small and midsized at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of
ing resources in the same way they currently buy elec-
lack of new OS launches being offset by Office companies currently operate. 20.9%. The report predicts that Symbian will
tricity and other utilities......................................page 39
2010’s release. ❙ retain its top spot primarily due to Nokia’s pres-
Apple Leads North American
❙ ence in markets outside the United States, and
CLIENTS IBM To Acquire Initiate Mobile Market
Android’s user base of 690,000 units in 2008
■Despite industry-wide confidence behind Microsoft’s IBM is moving deeper into the healthcare and December’s Mobile Metrics Report from Ad- will stretch to 68 million by 2013, a CAGR of
latest operating system, the upgrade process remains government IT sectors with a recently signed Mob, which examines the top handsets and 150.4%. Linux and webOS are predicted to
a tricky affair that generally demands strategy and struggle, with Linux OS-powered devices
patience..............................................................page 40 WATCH THE declining due to more Android use. Palm’s
This information provides a quick glimpse of current and historical stock webOS will grow steadily but see a limited mar-
STOCKS
DATA CENTER prices and trends for 13 major companies in the technology market. ket share due to limited deployment and avail-
MANAGEMENT ability among multiple carriers.
■There’s been a lot of attention focused on virtualiza- ❙ Sustainability Consortium
% change from
tion. Some vendors recognize the virtualization Company Symbol Year Ago Jan. 21 $ Feb. 4 $ previous issue To Determine Rating System
opportunities within SMEs and are offering solutions AMD AMD $2.41 $8.99 $7.19 ▼20.02%
HP, Dell, Toshiba, Intel, Best Buy, and Wal-
targeted to their operations................................page 41 CA CA $18.56 $23.37 $21.58 ▼7.66%
Mart will begin working with the Sustainability
■Refurbished equipmentcan be good both for Cisco Systems CSCO $17.04 $23.98 $23.16 ▼3.42% Consortium to create a system for rating elec-
Dell DELL $9.46 $14.39 $13.01 ▼9.59%
the environment and for an SME’s bottom line, so tronics based on the environmentally friendly
both shades of green benefit. We’ll tell you how to Google GOOG $371.28 $582.98 $526.78 ▼9.64% aspects of the design. The Sustainability
decide if going the used route is right for your HP HPQ $36.85 $51.29 $47.03 ▼8.31% Consortium says that it will initially work on
enterprise............................................................page 42 IBM IBM $96.14 $129 $123 ▼4.65% assessing desktops, laptops, and monitors;
Intel INTC $14.73 $20.84 $19.02 ▼8.73%
■For IT managers who might make only a few major eventually, the group will create ratings for all
McAfee MFE $30.13 $39.09 $36.94 ▼5.5%
types of consumer electronics. Some of the
purchase decisions a year, dealing with seasoned sales
Microsoft MSFT $19.66 $30.01 $27.84 ▼7.23%
group’s goals include researching the impact of
representatives creates the potential for problems. Enter
Oracle ORCL $17.97 $24.83 $23.11 ▼6.93%
products through all phases, identifying and
a new class of IT purchasing consultants........page 43
Red Hat Software RHT $16.19 $29.06 $27 ▼7.09% communicating key improvement opportunities,
Symantec SYMC $16.06 $18.63 $16.93 ▼9.13% and reporting and educating consumers on the
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much closer to levels seen in 2007. The report Microsoft’s Windows XP or Vista to the new online reputation affects their lives, less than
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Feb. 16
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Business Confidence Index, IT executives are ❙ Cisco reported only $1.5 billion in earnings, or ISSA
Hospitals Increase IT Spending
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geting more for encryption, DLP, and access ❙ soft recorded $19.02 billion in revenue for its Cincinnati
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of machine learning, the use of mobile phones sions. The survey reports that 70% of HR revenue. The Windows division contributed March 3
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ciency in computing, and privacy. Google information found online. What’s particularly with $4.7 billion in revenue for the quarter
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validation, and data collection middleware. Driven Integration, Master Data Quality, integrated with Mitel’s other UCC (unified
■ Adeptol Document Viewer Enterprise The TTC middleware can provide real-time Data Stewardship, and Talend Studio. communications and collaborations) appli-
Edition Version 4.4 data visibility for all data collection points, Talend MDM is available in a Community cations. With Mitel Mobile, customers can
Adeptol announced version 4.4 of its including RFID, bar code, and 2D readers. Edition and Enterprise Edition. work with a single vendor for wireline, wire-
Document Viewer Enterprise Edition. less, voice, and data communications needs.
Version 4.4 includes several features and ■ NComputing U170 MESSAGING& TELEPHONY
■ NaviSite Hosted Lotus Services
enhancements, including built-in high- NComputing released what it says is the
■ CounterPath & Digium Bria For Asterisk
speed buffering and rendering technology industry’s first USB-connected virtual desk- NaviSite announced NaviCloud-powered
so that users can load documents with sizes top, its U170 thin client. NComputing says CounterPath and Digium announced Bria Hosted Lotus Services. This offering com-
up to 0.5GB in one second. the release is based on the notion that the for Asterisk, a co-branded VoIP softphone bines the Cisco Unified Computing Sys-
majority of users only tap into a fraction of platform based on open standards and tem, VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure,
■ EIZO DuraVision FDX1001T & FDX1002 the power today’s PCs offer. The U170 lets intended for enterprises of all sizes. The vSphere 4.0, and IBM XiV SAN. NaviSite
EIZO introduced two 10.4-inch monitors users simultaneously use those re-sources product can be configured with any Hosted Lotus Services offers enterprises
targeted at the industrial market. The touch- but maintain individualistic features. The Asterisk deployment or installed on any PC on-demand access to Lotus software for
screen DuraVision FDX1001T accepts U170 starts at $99. to deliver advanced telephony features. predictable monthly fees without up-front
input from gloved fingers, and the Dura- capital expenses.
■ Novell SUSE Appliance Toolkit ■ Dialogic & Ingate Systems Enterprise
Vision FDX1002 features an integrated
Border Element With Integrated SIP Trunking ■ Océ Business Services Digital Mail
screen capture function. Other features Novell launched the SUSE Appliance
include a 1,024 x 768 resolution, white LED Toolkit, which is designed to cut the time Dialogic and Ingate Systems announced Océ Business Services announced Océ
backlight, and a contrast ratio of 700:1. and cost to create, deploy, and control soft- an enterprise border element that is fully Digital Mail, an email solution that allows
ware appliances using the onsite version of integrated with Ingate’s SIP Trunking soft- users to scan all incoming physical mail
■ Exar Hifn Technology 8200 Series SUSE Studio and other new management ware module. Dialogic’s offering is a and convert it into digital form. Designed
Exar announced its latest series of Hifn tools. SUSE Studio Onsite offers many of the media gateway and an enterprise session to reduce the volume of unwanted mail and
Technology 8200 series PCI Express same features that make SUSE Studio Online border controller in one, which will connect increase productivity, Digital Mail allows
Applied Services Processors, designed to useful, including the same configuration and virtually any SIP trunk with virtually any recipients to manage the mail documents in
provide enterprises with power-efficient interface. According to Novell, the toolkit PBX to facilitate seamless SIP trunk de- PDF or TIFF.
encryption and compression solutions. The will also help ISVs and enterprises build, ployments in a variety of environments.
■ Polycom & BroadSoft V2Connect
8200 series includes four devices and can test, update, and configure software appli-
■ GFI Software MAX MailProtection & GFI
simultaneously encrypt, compress, and ances throughout physical, virtual, and cloud Polycom and BroadSoft jointly an-
MAX MailEdge
hash data up to 750MBps while consuming environments. SUSE Appliance Toolkit also nounced V2Connect, which combines
less than 2 watts of power. offers WebYaST, SUSE Lifecycle Manage- GFI Software announced two email Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network
ment Server, and support for KIWI. solutions: GFI MAX MailProtection, a strategy with BroadSoft’s BroadWorks
■ Kofax Express v2.0 cloud-based email security solution, and VoIP application platform for a hosted
■ Primera LX900 Color Label Printer
Kofax announced release 2.0 of Kofax GFI MAX MailEdge, a hosted email fil- unified voice and video solution ideally
Express, its all-in-one scan-to-archive soft- Primera released the LX900, an inkjet tering and continuity solution designed suited to the needs of service providers.
ware designed for image capture applica- color label printer that can hit speeds of up for organizations looking for an additional V2Connect is capable of eliminating travel
tions. Features found in release 2.0 aim to to 4.5 inches per second while maintaining layer of security for their email server. costs, enhancing efficiency, and vastly
enhance ease of use and expand functional- a level of print quality comparable to its MailProtection stops spam, viruses, and improving the experience of teleworkers.
ity with automatic image file importing, much slower LX810 model. The $2,995 The platform delivers common features
improved PDF support, and advanced data- printer supports labels from 0.75 x 0.75 across voice and video terminals; supports a
base support. inches to 8 x 24 inches in size. single numbering plan accessible via private
dialing; and features carrier-grade scalabili-
■ Kyocera Mita America ECOSYS FS- ■ Sage CRM Solutions Services ty, reliability, and call quality. V2Connect
C8500DN &TASKalfa 552ci Sage North America is developing other email threats before they reach the consists of the Polycom RMX 2000 real-
Kyocera Mita America announced the cloud-based on-demand services for its network by using spam filtering tech- time media conference platform, Polycom’s
Energy Star-certified ECOSYS FS- Sage CRM Solutions products, and ACT! niques such as authenticity checks, mes- high-definition HDX Series video system,
C8500DN color laser printer ($5,973) and E-marketing is the first service Sage is pro- sage fingerprinting, and customizable the Polycom VVX 1500 business media
the TASKalfa 552ci multifunctional system viding. The company is planning more on- whitelists and blacklists. MailEdge is phone, and Polycom’s full suite of Sound-
($20,168). Both are 50ppm color/55ppm demand services for its onsite and hosted designed to work with an existing soft- Station and SoundPoint IP phones.
black networkable printers with 600 dpi CRM systems, such as sales, marketing, ware or hardware antispam or antivirus
■ Quest Notes Migrator For Exchange 4.2
color resolution. The FS-C8500DN and ecommerce, and mobility services, that solution. MailProtection and MailEdge
TASKalfa 552ci also offer a high monthly meet the functionality needs of SMEs. reduce bandwidth and the amount of pro- Quest announced the latest version of its
duty cycle of 225,000 prints, and each fea- cessing power needed to receive incoming Notes Migrator for Exchange, which is
■ Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.5
tures a USB host interface. mail. designed to make the transition from Lotus
Sybase announced the latest version of its Notes to Microsoft Exchange easier, more
■ Microscan & Cogiscan TTC Solution enterprise database management system, ■ IBM Enterprise Secure Mail & Lotus predictable, more secure, and less expen-
Notes Traveler
Microscan introduced the TTC (Track, Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) sive. The latest version now supports mi-
Trace, and Control) Solution, a joint release 15.5. Sybase ASE 15.5 features two options: IBM introduced Enterprise Secure Mail grations to Exchange 2010.
with Cogiscan. Primary features include WIP ASE IMDB (In-Memory Databases) and and Lotus Notes Traveler for Android,
■ Zeacom Gateway For Microsoft OCS
Advanced Backup Services. The IMDB iPhone, and Nokia Symbian smartphones.
option enables data virtualization and scaling Lotus Notes Traveler is a free application Zeacom announced the Zeacom Gate-
to help meet the needs of high data volume that lets users perform two-way over-the- way for Microsoft OCS (Office Com-
Do you have a air synchronization of information between munications Server) for telephony equip-
Lotus Domino data and mobile devices. ment. Zeacom Gateway provides access to
IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, Microsoft OCS via phone for advanced
NEW PRODUCT
also announced, lets users view encrypted unified communications. OCS integrates
and high concurrent user organizations. ASE mail on the iPhone. with most databases and CRM and work-
that data center/IT 15.5 IMDB is fully integrated within ASE to force management applications.
■ IBM LotusLive Cloud
eliminate the need for application changes
and provide flexibility to configure in-memo- IBM released the technology and busi- NETWORKING& VPN
managers would
ry databases to meet application require- ness expansion of its LotusLive cloud col-
■ Allot Communications NetEnforcer
ments. The integration of ASE Backup laboration platform through an R&D
be interested AC-1400 & AC-3000
Server with TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) pipeline from IBM Research. LotusLive
from IBM enables ASE databases to be cloud services provide integrated email, Allot Communications announced two
in learning about? backed up on any TSM-supported media, Web conferencing, social networking, and traffic management solutions: Net-
which delivers faster backups and restores. collaboration. IBM Research and Lotus Enforcer AC-1400 and AC-3000. The
also announced LotusLive Labs as a way to products provide advanced network opti-
■ Talend Master Data Management
develop business-driven cloud solutions. mization to Tier 2/3 service providers and
Send your press release or
Talend announced the MDM (Master enterprises, and they improve policy
related product information
■ Mitel Networks Mobile
Data Management) solution, a tool de- enforcement and enhance user experience.
to [email protected].
signed to offer an open-source alternative Mitel Networks released Mitel Mobile, a Both products facilitate deployment of
to the MDM market. Features of the software wireless voice and data service designed Allot’s network and subscriber services,
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P R O D U C T R E L E A S E S
including QuotaManager, TierManager, and deploys applications quicker using tions, detecting policy violations, and taking CAD-0205 can be stored anywhere in the
and more. Application Ready Templates for SAP and inventory of network hardware. This system office. And thanks to the Intel Atom N450
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. allows admins to configure multiple devices processor, it helps organizations reduce
■ BMC Software Remedy ITSM
and execute cross-platform changes. energy costs. The CAD-0205 offers four
Suite On Demand ■ GFI Software GFI MAX RemoteManagement
GbE ports and two pairs of bypass segments
■ Transition Networks MIL-SM24T4DPA
BMC Software announced the Remedy GFI Software announced that users of GFI and can support a single 2.5-inch HDD and
ITSM (IT Service Management) Suite on MAX RemoteManagement (formerly known Transition Networks announced the up to 2GB of memory. Additionally, it pro-
Demand, a SaaS version of its Remedy as GFI MAX) can now monitor and manage MIL-SM24T4DPA, a fully managed vides one RJ-45 console port, dual USB
ITSM Suite. The suite is designed to inte- Linux systems. The increased capabilities are Gigabit Ethernet switch that features 24 ports, one Mini PCI-E slot, and support for
grate ITIL processes with service desk, inci- designed to enable enterprises to extend the 10/100/1000Base-T copper ports and four VGA. The CAD-0205 also supports entry-
dent, problem, change, release, asset, service services they offer and increase revenue by Combo 10/100/1000Base-T or dual-speed level network security applications. For
request, and service-level management. using one consolidated management system. (100/1000) SFP ports. It can forward 41.7 more on this product, see page 33.
Mega packets-per-second over its 56Gbps
■ Data Comm For Business IP-6600 High ■ Kofax Capture v9.0 ■ HP Security, Compliance & Continuity
switching backplane, and eight hardware
Performance Asynchronous Router Services Portfolio
Kofax announced version 9.0 of Kofax queues per port and an 8K MAC Address
Data Comm For Business released the Capture, with features such as automated table support efficient processing and prior- HP announced the HP Security, Compli-
IP-6600, which has two serial ports and software deployment and updating, even to itization of data. ance, and Continuity Services Portfolio, a
two Ethernet ports. The IP-6600 can be remote sites. Users can also update and mod- suite of comprehensive security services. The
■ Tripwire Log Center
used as a standalone firewall router using ify parts of a document batch while process- portfolio leverages a common reference
NAT, port filtering, and address filtering. ing is in progress. Kofax Capture includes Tripwire announced Tripwire Log Center, model to help companies manage risk, pro-
The IP-6600 supports DSL, cable, or dial updated support for Microsoft Windows 7. log and event management software that’s tect critical infrastructure, safeguard opera-
modems; leased line modems; CDPD or integrated with Tripwire’s software suite. tions, and ensure compliance. New services
■ Layton Technology AuditWizard 8.1.2
GSM modems; wireless links; satellite Tripwire Log Center dynamically analyzes in the portfolio include the Cloud Computing
modems; the DCB DA-56 DSU; and sim- Layton Technology announced in- event and change information to provide Security Assessment and the Application
ple line drivers. creased functionality to version 8.1.2 of its intelligent threat control that achieves contin- Security Center of Excellence.
AuditWizard PC-auditing software. The uous compliance and security, and it pro-
■ DynamicOps Virtual Resource Manager ■ Intransa VA80tr, VA110tr & VA210
improved capabilities include a reporting vides the intelligence to recognize suspicious
DynamicOps announced improvements engine and an upgraded dashboard, both patterns across all events and changes. Intransa unveiled the VA80tr tower,
to its Virtual Resource Manager software, developed directly from customer-generated VA110tr tower, and VA210 rackmount
■ VSS Monitoring v24 Distributed Tap
which offers NetApp FlexClone technolo- input. The latest version is available as a appliance. The VA80tr can support up to 10
gy. VRM is now a fully automated virtual free upgrade for existing customers. VSS Monitoring introduced the v24 IP cameras, RAID 10 data protection, and
desktop program designed to cut down on Distributed Tap, a traffic capture device 2TB of recording capacity. The VA100tr
■ ManageEngine OpManager 8.5
provisioning time and storage costs. VRM that allows users to set each of its 24 ports functions in Duo- or Tri-Mode for VMS use
abolishes performance issues caused by ManageEngine announced the latest ver- as input or output; their speeds from 10/100 and live viewing. The VA210 includes 72
multiple systems booting at the same time sion of its OpManager 8.5 network manage- to 10 GbE; and their media (fiber or cop- IP cameras, up to 80TB of storage, and hot-
and offers a built-in operations manage- ment solution, which is designed for the most per) at any time. The v24 can be used any- swap disk capacity.
ment console to help with capacity man- recent generation of smartphones. Features where in an Ethernet network and can be
■ NetWrix Change Reporter Suite
agement and charge-back metrics. include interface optimization for the iPhone quickly reconfigured as needed.
and BlackBerry, Twitter alert management, NetWrix announced the NetWrix Change
■ Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 8900-xl RSS feed alerts, data collection for Cisco IP PHYSICALINFRASTRUCTURE Reporter Suite, a suite of auditing and com-
& Summit X480
SLA-based add-ons, and support for 650 pliance tools for Active Directory, Group
■ Minicom SmartRack 232 &
Extreme Networks announced the device types. Pricing for OpManager 8.5 Policy, file servers, SQL Server, Exchange,
KVM Extender USB
BlackDiamond 8900–xl modules and the starts at $595 for 25 devices. and VMware. The suite provides secure
Summit X480 stackable switches. The Minicom released the SmartRack 232 and management and reporting of system
■ ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
BlackDiamond 8900–xl modules include KVM Extender USB to streamline server changes via a single unified console to help
Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center ManageEngine released the latest version room space and workflow. The SmartRack enterprises prevent security breaches and
devices and are available as upgrades to the of ServiceDesk Plus help desk software for 232 is a two-user KVM switch for up to 32 decrease their risk.
BlackDiamond 8800 switches. The Summit iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile mixed-platform servers at the BIOS level.
■ NitroSecurity NitroView ESM & ELM 8.4
X480 is a fixed-configuration 48-port Web browsers. Administrators can receive The KVM Extender USB is designed to
10/100/1000 switch that offers data center- trouble tickets, access tickets, and make access computers in a single secure location. NitroSecurity announced version 8.4 of its
class functionality. technician assignments from anywhere. NitroView ESM (Enterprise Security
■ Smart-AVI DVNET-8P
The Standard Edition starts at $495; the Manager) and ELM (Enterprise Log
■ F5 Enterprise Manager 2.0 & Enterprise
Professional Edition starts at $995; and the Smart-AVI released DVNET-8P, an 8- Manager), which offers integrated log and
Manager 4000
Enterprise Edition annual subscription port switch that lets users flexibly share a security event management. Version 8.4
F5 announced two management solu- starts at $2,995. DVI-D monitor; up to eight PCs or Macs; helps enterprises bolster compliance, risk
tions, Enterprise Manager 2.0 and stereo audio; and USB 2.0, 1.1, and/or 1 assessment, and real-time security response
■ Riverbed Technology Cascade 8.4
Enterprise Manager 4000. Both solutions devices. Users can perform active port efforts, as well as reduces the time needed to
offer improved visibility, automation, and Riverbed Technology announced version switching manually, via RS-232, or with create post-event analysis and forensics.
network monitoring capabilities. Users 8.4 of Cascade, its network and application optional infrared remote commands. The
■ OPNET Technologies Sentinel
can reduce OpEx, easily configure applica- performance analysis and visibility solution. DVNET-8P is priced at $999.
Advisory Service
tion delivery networks for continuous Cascade allows enterprises to monitor end-
■ Stulz-ATS CeilAiR OHS-OA
optimized performance, and enhance user application experiences in real time and OPNET Technologies announced Sen-
device manageability. provides enterprise-wide application perfor- Stulz-ATS added the CeilAiR OHS-OA to tinel Advisory Service, a tool designed to
mance analysis and application dependen- its CeilAiR line of ceiling-mounted precision ensure network availability and security.
■ F5 Networks BIG-IP v10.1
cies. Version 8.4 provides an improved air conditioners. The products are available Launched with Sentinel 16.0 and available
F5 Networks has expanded its application reporting function and integration with in 4- to 22-ton sizes ranging from 500 to free to OPNET IT Sentinel and SP Sentinel
delivery portfolio by adding advanced appli- Riverbed WAN optimization. Other features 3,000cfm and in six incremental sizes. users, Sentinel Advisory Service helps to
cation delivery controller services and prod- include enhanced application performance Mounted in a ceiling, the units offer 100% reduce configuration errors, regularly per-
ucts aimed at helping enterprises establish metrics, which help users monitor applica- external air to meet ASHRAE 62.1-2007 forms audits of the network configuration,
tion throughput, user connection throughput, building requirements. Suitable applications and enhances proactive prevention of oper-
and connection duration. Users may also include schools, universities, hospitals, labs, ational and security problems with auto-
pair Cascade 8.4 with Cascade Sensor-VE, and offices. matic updates that synchronize its rule
a virtual remote sensor that runs on the suites with those of network vendors such
Riverbed Services Platform and eliminates SECURITY as Cisco Systems. Sentinel Advisory
the need for additional hardware. Service also includes reports that check the
F5 NETWORKS
■ American Portwell Technology CAD-0205
network against the (CIS) Center for
■ SolarWinds Network Config Generator Desktop Network Appliance
more dynamic data centers, cut infrastruc- Internet Security’s benchmarks.
ture costs, make workforces more efficient, SolarWinds released the SolarWinds American Portwell Technology intro-
■ StillSecure ProtectPoint VSS
and simplify access policy enforcement. Network Config Generator for streamlining duced the ultra-low-voltage CAD-0205
v10.1 includes services for enterprises and and automating configuration changes. desktop network appliance, which features StillSecure released a managed security
cloud providers that reduce CapEx and Config Generator uses templates to change the new Intel Atom N450 processor. With service called ProtectPoint VSS that lets
OpEx through centralized, granular access interface descriptions and configure VLANs, its compact and lightweight design, the data centers, hosting providers, and coloca-
control via a BIG-IP Access Policy Manager switch port security, NetFlow, and IP SLAs. tion facilities provide virtual environments
module; enhances end-user experiences and Features also include intuitive GUI control, securely for customers. StillSecure says its
security via user-location policies based on thwack integration, and built-in Context VSS product gives public and private
IP geolocation services built into the TMOS Exchange integration. The included Orion clouds a full suite of virtually managed
platform; cuts bandwidth costs and improve Network Configuration Manager helps track security services, including firewall and
disaster recovery via quicker data transfers and control changes to the network by exe- IDS/IPS, the use of VMware’s VMsafe
using the BIG-WAN Optimization Module; cuting scripts, backing up nightly configura- AMERICANPORTWELL Go to Page 6
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Continued from Page 5 disk-based, real-time data protection solu- SATA hard drives intended for data center with the more universally supported USB
APIs, and StillSecure’s SAS-70 Type II- tion for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, use. The new lineup, which ranges from 1 2.0 and also come with a dual-port 6Gbps
certified security operations center. and Windows File Servers. Features to 8TB in capacity and supports hot-swap- eSATA adapter for an x1 PCI-E 2.0 slot.
include faster failover to physical or virtual ping, includes the d2 Quadra ($299 and The units boast performance speeds of more
SERVERS machines across a LAN or WAN and real- up), the 2big Quadra ($649 and up), and the than 200MBps.
time data protection and replication. 4big Quadra ($1,349 and up). The enclo-
■ iXsystems iX-N4236 Orion II Server Series sures are made of aluminum and are vibra- ■ StorageCraft Technology ShadowProtect
■ Bocada Prism Recovery Software
iXsystems released the iX-N4236 Orion II tion-resistant. Each model comes with a
Server Series, which the company says is Bocada has released Prism, a workflow- five-year warranty with a five-year advance StorageCraft Technology unveiled its
designed to tackle storage-intensive chores driven program that is designed to offer per- product replacement plan and customizable ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for
while maintaining an optimal temperature ceptive problem solving, SLA impact alerts backup software (Genie Backup Manager Exchange, which is the firm’s latest back-
and requiring less power than competitive and analysis, and intelligent knowledge Pro for Windows and Intego Backup Man- up and disaster recovery software for
servers. The server, which iXsystems says is transfer, which will improve the delivery of ager Pro for Mac). Windows systems and data. ShadowProtect
ideally suited for ZFS implementations, vir- data protection services. Bocada Prism also Granular Recovery for Exchange lets users
■ LSI 3ware 9750 Series 6Gbps SAS/SATA
tualization, and high-capacity storage, helps users navigate the multiphased Data reduce the amount of time it takes to recov-
RAID Controllers
includes Intel Xeon 5500 series quad-core Protection Service Management process. er from a critical or noncritical failure.
CPUs with included Intel TurboBoost Featuring the LSISAS2108 6Gbps ROC Features include the ability to recover mail-
■ Buffalo Technology TeraStation ES
Technology. Beyond a front/rear drive bay (RAID-on-Chip) processor, LSI’s 3ware boxes, messages, and attachments to an
design that allows for 50% more capacity, Buffalo Technology unveiled the Tera- 9750 controllers can supply sequential Exchange server or a PST file; quickly and
Station ES, which is a high-performance throughput of up to 2.5GBps read and easily restore or migrate individual mail-
network-attached storage device ideally 1.1GBps write. Models include the 3ware boxes; search individual mailboxes or
suited to the needs of small enterprises. The SAS 9750-4i with four internal ports ($389; email messages for specific keywords;
TeraStation ES acts as a secure repository $439 kit with cables) and the 3ware SAS migrate users to a new version of Ex-
for any manner of digital assets. It starts 9750-8i with eight internal ports ($599; change; and generate comprehensive
at $699.99 for the 2TB model (TS- $645 kit with cables). reports. ShadowProtect Granular Recovery
XE2.0TL/R5). for Exchange is available as a bundle with
■ LSI MegaRAID Controller Cards & HBAs
ShadowProtect Server or ShadowProtect
■ EMC CLARiiON CX4
LSI announced MegaRAID 6Gbps SAS Small Business Server.
IXSYSTEMS & EMC Celerra Gateway
controller cards for its entry line (the 4-port
■ SuperTalent TeraDrive FT2
the Orion II allows for 36 hot-swappable EMC announced high-density configura- 9240-4i and 8-port 9240-8i) and its value
SAS/SATA drive bays for up to 72TB stor- tions of its EMC CLARiiON CX4 and and feature lines (the 8-port 9261-8i and SuperTalent announced a line of
age and optional Orion II JBOD expansion EMC Celerra Gateway systems. The high- 9280-4i4e). LSI also released the 9212-4i4e TeraDrive SSDs for high-end enterprise and
units availability for an aggregated capacity density options deliver twice the capacity of (four internal and four external ports) and database-server functions. The TeraDrive
of 432TB in 20U rack space. previous systems in half the floor space to the 9200-16e (16 external ports) 6Gbps FT2, a 3Gbps SATA-based SSD, is based
optimize resources. The midrange storage SAS-based host bus adapters. on a SandForce SF-1500 SSD processor and
SERVICES systems support 2TB, low-power SATA is available in MLC or SLC NAND flash
■ Mimosa Systems NearPoint
disk drives, which consume less power than and in sizes from 50 to 400GB. Sequential
■ Logicalis Cooperative Enterprise previous generations. And combined with Mimosa Systems announced that its read/write speeds reach up to 250MBps. A
Cloud Service EMC storage efficiency technologies, such NearPoint archiving and e-discovery soft- Q1 2010 release is expected.
Logicalis released the Cooperative as disk spin down and EMC FAST (fully ware now has interoperability enhancements
■ Symantec Backup Exec 2010
Enterprise Cloud Service, which operates automated storage tiering), customers can for EMC’s Data Domain deduplication stor-
on Cisco’s Unified Computing System and manage the growth of storage-intensive age systems. Mimosa says that NearPoint is Symantec launched its Backup Exec
NetApp storage solutions. The service applications. The new configurations are compatible with the latest Data Domain 2010, which is a backup and recovery
offers security, reliability, and flexibility for designed to reduce power consumption and operating system. Speed and automation ben- solution designed for midsized enterprises.
enterprises with hybrid matched architec- cooling costs as well as physical space efit from the improvements, as does tiered Backup Exec 2010 delivers granular
ture. This release lets Logicalis’ Bespoke requirements in data center and remote storage management.
On-Site Cloud Service users connect the on- office locations.
■ Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0
site infrastructure to the hosted platform.
■ FalconStor Software FDS 2.0
Nexsan unveiled its latest LAN dedupli-
STORAGE FalconStor Software announced FDS cation solution, which offers “Speed with recovery of Microsoft Exchange, SQL,
(File-interface Deduplication System) 2.0, Green.” Providing high availability for and Active Directory in VMware and
■ 3PAR Recovery Manager For VMware a LAN-based deduplication tool for enter- the first time, DeDupe SG 2.0 incor- Hyper-V environments from a single pass
vSphere & 3PAR Management Plug-In For prise-class functionality and high avail- porates FalconStor’s FDS, or File-Inter- backup. Symantec Backup Exec 2010
VMware vCenter Server ability. Designed to more efficiently use face Deduplication System, and supports starts at $1,174 for a media server license
3PAR introduced 3PAR Recovery Man- storage space and cut costs, FDS 2.0 is for Symantec’s OST (OpenStorage) protocol. and Basic Maintenance.
ager for VMware vSphere and 3PAR SMEs and larger enterprises. Features Aimed at the midsized enterprise, DeDupe
■ Symantec NetBackup 7
Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter include support for Symantec OST SG 2.0 also features AutoMAID power-
Server, which are new 3PAR InForm soft- (OpenStorage); a fan-in ratio of 150 to 1; saving technology. Symantec introduced NetBackup 7,
ware plug-ins. In the virtual data center and an enhanced replication dashboard; which lets users integrate deduplication
■ NovaStor NovaBACKUP Data Center 4.0
cloud computing environments of virtual increased granular, folder-level support; everywhere in an effort to simplify infor-
machines and related storage resources, the policy-driven end-to-end data integrity NovaStor released NovaBACKUP Data mation management and reduce data stor-
new plug-ins are engineered to guard, checking; and collision avoidance. Center 4.0, its latest enterprise-level backup age requirements and ease network traffic.
recover, and control assets. solution. Featuring a universal licensing Symantec NetBackup 7 is available world-
■ IceWEB Iplicity-TP Platform
scheme and economic resource manage- wide, starting at $7,995 for an Enterprise
■ AMI StorTrends 2400im IP-SAN IceWEB released the Iplicity-TP plat- ment, NovaBACKUP Data Center 4.0 is Server and five client licenses.
& 2400nm NAS form, a data storage solution for transaction designed for multi-OS environments and
■ Synology DiskStation SD1010+
AMI (American Megatrends) released processing in intensive environments. The can support high transfer speeds. Nova-
network storage options ideal for SMEs. device interconnects public, private, and Stor also unveiled its SaaS technology, Synology released the DiskStation
The StorTrends 2400im IP-SAN appliance hybrid cloud storage transactions. Designed NovaBACKUP xSP 11, with lead gen- SD1010+, a five-bay enterprise-oriented
and 2400nm NAS feature volume replica- for maximum flexibility, it features high- eration, ISP customer acquisition, and NAS with write speeds 250% faster than its
tion and auto provisioning. Both are 2U performance SAS drives, redundancy, and value-added reseller features. As part of previous SD509+. The SD1010+ includes
models that come with AMI’s Dual Dialect greater cache performance with available NovaStor’s Strategic Growth Package, DSM open firmware; expands to 10 bays;
IP-SAN/NAS technology, an Intermediate solid-state drives. NovaBACKUP xSP 11 is a fully customiz- and provides an alternative to PC file
version of StorTrends iTX Data Storage able and service provider-friendly solution servers for centralizing backups, protecting
■ LaCie Enterprise Class Storage Units
software, and a 12TB storage capacity. for backup in the cloud. data, and sharing files remotely. Average
LaCie unveiled its Enterprise Class stor- read speed tops 116MBps under a RAID 5
■ Avere Systems FXT 2700 age units, which provide hardware RAID ■ Sans Digital TR4UT/TR4UT-B, setup; write speed tops 103MBps.
TR5UT/TR5UT-B
Avere Systems released the FXT 2700 0/1/5, hardware 128-bit AES encryption,
■ Teneros DR-as-a-Service
tiered NAS appliance ($82,500 and up), 24K gold-plated connectors, and 7,200rpm Sans Digital announced the latest addi-
which features a fast SLC SSD internal tier. tions to the TowerRAID family, a couple of Teneros launched DR-as-a-Service, a
The company claims that random read per- external storage units that do away with tra- hosted disaster recovery solution for critical
formance multiplies by a factor of 10 over ditional bottlenecks, namely software RAID network and communication applications,
hard drive-based solutions. The 2U device and slow interfaces. The TR4UT/TR4UT-B such as Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry,
comes with 512GB of flash storage, but it ($289) is an enclosure with four trayless Active Directory, and DNS. DR-as-a-
can scale to 13TB in a cluster. bays. The TR5UT/TR5UT-B ($349) has Service provides Teneros Instant-On
five drive bays with removable trays. The failover recovery and replication technolo-
■ BakBone NetVault FASTRecover v4.0 new TowerRAIDs feature support for hard- gies that support Teneros’ existing high-
BakBone Software announced the lat- ware RAID 0, 1/10, 3, 5 and CLONE (N- availability and disaster recovery solutions
est version of NetVault FASTRecover, its LACIE Way Mirror). Both support eSATA along for email and unified communications.
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Storage In A Flash in data centers, as well as replacing hard
Jumping In
drives,” Busch says. “SSDs are much less
Moving ahead into the SSD realm gener- expensive than DRAM, dissipate 1/100th
ally doesn’t require massive changes to data the power, and are persistent. As a result,
Continued from Page 1 hundred times the I/Ops capability of the center infrastructure. In fact, computer sys- caching of large data sets, which is currently
absolute business requirement. Stock mar- fastest hard disk drives. This means a data tem, storage, and I/O controller vendors are performed in large DRAM memories, can
ket transactions are a good example,” center using RAID to stripe thousands of already preparing products that accommo- instead be implemented with a combination
Martin says. “In these applications, I/Ops hard disk drives within multiple servers to date SSDs, says Dr. John Busch, co-founder of DRAM and SSD technology, thereby
[input/output per second] are a key mea- achieve performance requirements can and CTO of Schooner Information Tech- increasing cache capacity, reducing cost and
surement of performance requirements, instead utilize a highly reduced number of nology (www.schoonerinfotech.com). Plus, power, and improving availability.”
and enterprise-class SSDs offer up to a SSDs to achieve the same performance.” he says that SSDs are compatible with disk
Plan To Pair
drive hardware and programmatic interfaces.
“So deploying SSDs is straightforward,” Instead of viewing SSDs as the wave of
Action Plan
Busch says. “The data center managers need the future, data centers could be better
to decide which applications and data are served as viewing the storage technology
SSDs won’t serve up a plate SSDs also fail in a different Be SSD-specific.If infrastruc- performance-sensitive and target these for as simply one of two waves. Ober says
of integration headaches for way than HDDs but more ture (HBAs, arrays, etc.) is SSD-based systems, and they need to opti- that SSDs possibly could overtake hard
most data centers that adopt predictably and in a more being purchased today that will mize the software with increased parallelism drives in the data center in terms of adop-
the technology, but it remains manageable way. be upgraded to SSDs, it needs and refined concurrency to fully take advan- tion, but he predicts that each will have its
wise to approach them with a to be developed to handle the tage of the performance benefits of SSDs.” own place in a storage environment.
plan in hand. Rob Ober, an Plan for upgrades. performance and characteris- Busch says that for most applications, the “Performance requirements can be sat-
LSI fellow (www.lsi.com), Understand what applications tics of SSDs. Legacy con- performance benefits delivered by SSDs isfied by SSDs rather than large numbers
offers the following tips to pre- and servers are I/O-bound trollers are a bottleneck today compared to disk drives are about 25%, but of HDDs. Conversely, HDDs are ex-
pare for SSD adoption. and causing underutilization that can limit any benefit of potential improvements in the future could tremely good at storing massive amounts
and where servers doing the SSDs, while new products are vastly improve that number. For those of data at low power and in supporting
Learn about flash-based same task could be consoli- now being developed to fully improvements to occur, OSes and applica- high-bandwidth sequential data transfers,
storage.It’s like tires on a dated. This can actually be utilize SSD performance. tion-layer software require changes, such as as well as being indefinitely persistent for
car—they do wear out and difficult sometimes, as the increased read and write parallelism, archival,” Ober says. “Because of those
need to be replaced periodi- CPUs are busy but are Don’t forget software.Begin improved concurrency control, and thread/ characteristics, hybrid storage systems
cally, and higher-perfor- thrashing because of waits on architecting internally devel- core affinity management. However, until will evolve where SSDs will be used for
mance tires usually need to storage. These applications oped software to use the per- that happens, SSDs can be used in tandem performance and will become more
be replaced more often. But are candidates for SSD formance of SSDs and design with another significant trend in data cen- closely integrated into servers—possibly
each year, they get dramati- upgrade and possible server around shorter queues and ters: DRAM caching of large data sets. evolving their form factor and interface—
cally better and cheaper. consolidation. latency in the storage system. “SSD technology offers the potential to and HDDs will take on archival storage
replace a significant portion of the DRAM and bulk capacity storage.” P
Best Practices For often performed by specialized SIEM (secu-
Key Points
rity information and event management)
software, which often incorporates a data-
Windows Log Monitoring
base for log storage and analysis servers to (cid:127) Windows server log data is critical to
do the analytics and report generation. identifying security threats, violations
Merely digesting correlated log informa- of company security policy, assisting in
Continued from Page 1 run the event log service; however, admins tion isn’t enough, however; Myers adds that system troubleshooting, and meeting
membership changes, user account cre- still must think through the types of events IT must have processes for regularly regulatory requirements.
ations, lockouts or password resets, or per- they record and how and where to consoli- reviewing events and taking appropriate (cid:127) The volume of log data generated by the
mission modifications, while application date the data from multiple systems. The action. GFI Software’s (www.gfi.com) typical Windows server is so vast, and the
servers often track user logons, file access- second architectural tier addresses the data Mocanasu notes that SIEM software can level of event noise so high, that fruitfully
es, configuration changes, or other adminis- collection from each system to so-called automate many of these processes by regu- using it requires automation technology.
trative activity. aggregation servers. Data may be trans- larly running required compliance reports (cid:127) SIEM (security information and event
Having identified a set of loggable events, ferred in real time or in scheduled batches and emailing results to stakeholders or by management) solutions or log monitoring
Shelley says the specific information to cap- and is often filtered to screen out routine, triggering email or SMS alerts, and even managed services can correlate seemingly
ture and monitor for each varies by type of noncritical events prior to archiving. running batch commands, whenever a criti- unrelated events to uncover meaningful
event. For example, it’s probably not useful The final tier in a logging architecture cal event is detected. events and automatically generate compli-
tracking every successful server logon, but a consists of software that combs through the ance reports.
Best Practices
sequence of five failed logon attempts in 30 data looking for patterns indicative of signif-
& Configuration Guidelines
minutes could warrant further investigation. icant security incidents, application errors, or
This illustrates a critical element of log data other irregularities. These are summarized in Myers says that SIEM solutions typically says that organizations with more stringent
analysis: Individual events are often not reports or alerts tailored to various user con- come with collection agents preconfigured security requirements will need to dig under
particularly interesting in isolation, but stituencies, specific IT governance policies, to generate and gather the relevant log data the covers and do some customization.
according to Myers, event sequences can be or regulatory requirements. Log analysis is for a particular type of server, although he Aside from data collection, aggregation,
correlated to highlight patterns of suspicious and reporting, there are some basic elements
behavior or system anomalies. Unfortu- of log management “hygiene” admins
nately, manually mining an event log for Recommended Windows Server should also follow. “Slogging (syslogging)
such correlations is impossible, hence the Through The Mud,” a whitepaper from the
Event Log Audit Policies
need for log management technology. SANS Institute by Michael Sullivan, says
logs should be archived according to com-
Log Management Infrastructure A typical log management requirements matrix would be driven by the underlying reasons for logging
pany retention policies and preserved in a
information (incident forensics, regulatory requirements, etc.) and include such items as the scope of
Just as event correlation on an individual format that can support later forensic analy-
systems and devices to be monitored, log data retention requirements, and underlying security
system is the only way of gaining meaning- sis. It also suggests syncing servers via NTP
requirements (whether driven by company policy or outside regulations), which ultimately lead to spe-
ful security or troubleshooting insights, and ensuring processes and personnel are in
cific event collection requirements. For example, a company with a large ecommerce site doing credit
piecing together event patterns across multi- place to perform regular log audits.
card processing might have the following security requirements:
ple machines (and network devices) can Myers notes that organizations without
reveal even more devious attacks or subtle the resources required for a comprehensive
Good
problems; however, such pan-system log- SIEM solution may find a number of “point
Security Intellectual Company
ging and analysis requires its own infra- products” designed specifically for Win-
Requirement PCI SOX GLBA Practice Property X
structure. Shelley adds, “This is where you dows servers that are useful in automating
really need a technology, because how Access control R R* R R -- R server log management tasks, although
quickly, efficiently, and consistently you do these won’t integrate with Unix systems or
Read-only access R R R R -- R
this is very important.” network devices.
to raw logs
In its authoritative “Guide to Computer As with virtually every software category,
Security Log Management,” the National Integrity checking R R R R -- R log management is also available as a man-
Institute of Standards and Technology aged service, including what Myers terms
Notification of R R R R -- R
defines log management infrastructure as cloud-like offerings in which all the aggre-
changes to log files
the “hardware, software, networks, and gation and analysis infrastructure is remote,
media used to generate, transmit, store, ana- Log file encryption R O R O O necessitating only minimal configuration on
lyze, and dispose of log data,” segmenting customer systems. These allow SMEs with-
the infrastructure into three tiers: log gener- R = required / O = optional / * may vary by auditor out a deep security team to tap into a service
ation, storage, and monitoring/analysis. PCI = Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard / SOX = Sarbanes-Oxley / provider’s expertise and the features of a
Log generation is fairly straightforward GLBA = Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act statutes. high-end SIEM system without the staff
because all Windows servers automatically SOURCE: “LOGMANAGEMENT: HOWTODEVELOPTHERIGHTSTRATEGYFORBUSINESSANDCOMPLIANCE”; SECUREWORKSWHITEPAPER. overhead and capital expense. P
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AITP Garden State
March 9 Data Center
elements can end the data center’s ability
Jim Johnston’s Steakhouse
to expand.
58 Eisenhower Parkway Mountain Plaza
Roseland, N.J. Next, map the consumption of these ele-
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group ments back to physical resources—network,
/aitpgardenstatechapter storage, servers, mechanical, and electri-
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) cal—and attempt to understand the antici-
PASS Wisconsin Redesigns
pated growth of each group of resources.
SQL Server User’s Group
March 9, 4:30 “It’s important to understand the growth
Microsoft Office rates of each resource type because each
2176 Woodcrest Drive one will consume space, power, and cool-
Green Bay, Wis.
ing differently,” Domich says. “By track-
wisconsin.sqlpass.org
ing these growth rates against available
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) Revamping Existing Centers Is A Potentially
AITP San Diego capacity, it should become clear as to
March 10, 5:30 p.m. when you run out of overall capacity.”
Budget-Friendly & Effective Trend To Watch
National University-Kearny Mesa Campus
3678 Aero Court
San Diego, Calif. Key Points
sandiego.aitp.org
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) by Elizabeth Millard tends to be lack of floor space for PDUs
Greater Wheeling AITP (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) but that many centers are gaining efficien- (cid:127) With the implementation of more blade
March 10 servers, many data centers are opting to
cy by using in-row systems instead.
Wheeling, W.Va. redesign rather than to use managed ser-
www.aitp-wheeling.org BECAUSE BUILDING a new data center can Another consideration is use of outside
vices or undertake a new construction.
be capital-intensive, many companies are air, adds Hughes. Particularly for data cen-
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
ISSA San Diego choosing to redesign existing centers, par- ters in cooler parts of the country, piping (cid:127) When taking on a redesign, first quantify
March 10 ticularly to address power den- in cold air can create dramatic savings in the overall capacity of the data center in
www.sdissa.org sity issues. Although this cooling costs. “We’re going to see the use terms of space, power, and cooling.
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
type of revamp may of nontraditional cooling increase as a (cid:127) Run the numbers to make sure that
AITP Washington D.C.
March 11, 6:30 p.m. require careful trend because we’re not talking about redesign makes sense; for some data
Alfio’s Restaurant planning, savings of 1 to 2% [but] more like 30 centers, the cost of new construction
4515 Willard Ave. many to 40% with some of these strate- might actually be lower than taking on
Chevy Chase, Md.
gies,” he says. demolition and rebuilding.
aitpwashdc.ning.com
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) Redesign Issues
AITP Pittsburgh experts
March 15 believe it’s When considering a re- Gaining this visibility will help answer
Slovak Catholic Sokol worth the extra design, the first step is to one fundamental question, he adds: Is
205 Madison St. Road effort and expense quantify the overall ca- there even time to redesign? “A redesign
Venetia, Pa.
to stay up-to-date pacity of the data center is only necessary if by doing so you stand
www.aitp-pgh.org
with newer technolo- from space, power, and to recapture stranded resources or if the
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
AITP Southwest Missouri gies in such areas as cooling perspectives, redesign itself will increase the overall
March 16 cooling and power. advises Domich. capacity of space, power, and cooling,
Springfield, Mo. Each of these ele- which is rare unless the physical space is
aitpspringfield.org Growing Trend
ments makes up being enlarged as part of the redesign,”
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
ISSA St. Louis Chapter Even in a soft economy, data a finite “unit Domich says.
March 16 center design companies are still of currency”
Cautionary Note
St. Louis, Mo. quite busy, notes Peter Sacco, president across the
stl.issa.org of PTS Data Center Solutions (www data center, Even though redesigning is a strong
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) .ptsdcs.com). “I think that can be attrib- and running trend, IT managers do need to make sure
Oklahoma City AITP Chapter
March 16 uted, in part, to that fact that when compa- out of any that the costs make sense, notes Domich.
Oklahoma City, Okla. nies do layoffs, they have to do more with of these He says that depending on the conditions
www.aitp.org/organization/chapters the people they retain,” he says. “And for of the existing center, the total cost of
/chapterhome.jsp?chapter=40 that, you have to automate processes, and demolition and rebuilding can easily rival
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) that leads to implementing technology to the cost of building an entirely new data
AFCOM Central Ohio
March 17 see those productivity gains.” center. A major consideration is the cost
Columbus, Ohio About 70% of his clients are using blade of temporary housing of existing systems
www.afcomcentralohio.org servers, he adds, as well as upgrading during the construction period.
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) SANs, but many haven’t revamped their “The main thing we stress to clients is
AITP Lehigh Valley
facilities to accommodate the changes. the total cost of ownership of the data
March 17
Fleetwood, Pa. Sacco believes this is typical in the indus- center and to ask themselves if running a
www.lv-aitp.org try and that many companies are facing data center is a core competency,” says
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) the challenges of dealing with higher-den- Domich. “If not, organizations should
AITP sity equipment—leading to power and explore the colocation option.”
Northeastern Wisconsin Chapter
cooling issues—and are leaning toward For those that do choose to tackle
March 17, 4:15 p.m.
Holiday Inn Select using their own data center spaces rather redesign, it’s likely that efficiency benefits
150 S. Nicolet Road than colocation or managed services. can be reaped if a long-term view is taken.
Appleton, Wis. In general, most redesigns today are As Domich points out, a data center
new.aitp.org incorporating the ability to handle higher should be revamped to last at least three
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) power densities, dissipate heat more years after a reorganization. With a longer
AITP Atlanta
March 18, 5:30 p.m. efficiently, and utilize greener building timeframe like that, IT managers will have
Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter NW standards, notes Kris Domich, principal more options when it comes to tackling
6345 Powers Ferry Road NW consultant at Dimension Data (www density issues. P
Atlanta, Ga.
.dimensiondata.com).
www.aitpatlanta.org
“With additional power comes additional
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) Action Plan
ISSA Upstate South Carolina heat, so redesigns that involve the delivery
March 19 of more power must take into account how
NuVox they will evacuate the heat,” he says. “The According to Kris Domich, prin- (cid:127) Will you have three or more equipment (for example,
301 N. Main St., Suite 5000 trend now is not only to add a sufficient cipal consultant at Dimension years of longevity in the move from static pressure
Greensville, S.C. amount of CRAC/CRAH devices but to Data (www.dimensiondata current room after reorga- to precision cooling)?
www.upstate-issa.org
also engineer the physical space to provide .com), here are some essential nizing it? (cid:127) What is your floor load rat-
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
ISSA Des Moines dedicated paths for the removal of hot air.” questions to answer when (cid:127) How will you sustain opera- ing per square foot for both
March 22 Toward that end, one trend has been the putting together a redesign tions during your reorgani- raised floor and concrete
3920 SW Camden Circle introduction of more generators and UPS action plan: zation? decks? Will you exceed the
Ankeny, Iowa systems to the data center, says Ron (cid:127) Can you separate the com- maximum rating?
www.issa-desmoines.org
Hughes, president of California Data (cid:127) Can you provide enough puting areas from areas (cid:127) Are you allowing for the
(cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127) (cid:127)
ISSA Baltimore Center Design Group (www.cdcdg.com). conditioned/protected power that may undergo construc- recommended service
March 24, 4:30 p.m. “To address power density and cooling, for the additional equipment? tion? clearances around your
Sparta Inc. people are looking at implementing sup- (cid:127) What additional mechanical (cid:127) Will your cooling strategy equipment per the manu-
7110 Samuel Morse Drive, Suite 200 plemental cooling systems, which are or electrical equipment will have to change significant- facturers’ specifications?
Columbia, Md.
www.issa-balt.org sometimes easier to put into a retrofit,” he be needed? ly to cool the additional
says, adding that the biggest challenge