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In This Issue...
Securing
Manage Aging
COVER FOCUS
Solutions To Common Intellectual
Data Center Problems
Does your data center have aging equipment?
Equipment
An understaffed IT department? We provide tips Property
and advice to solve those problems and others.
Manage Aging Equipment......................................1
Setting Up A Backup Or Replication Data Center....11
Safeguarding Customer
Handling Higher Equipment Costs ........................12
Lessen The Effects On Your Budget
Making Do With An Understaffed IT Department....13 Data & IP Is Crucial
By Keeping Older Equipment Humming
For Cadence
Regulatory Compliance
EDA Business
Regulatory compliance has become part of a
data center/IT manager’s life. Here’s what you by Carmi Levy offset by the challenges of keeping aging
need to know regarding • • • equipment working—and reliable.
the latest regulations BUDGET-STRAPPEDCOMPANIESfacing falling “Your data center equipment is just like a by Blaine Flamig
and whether they revenues and profits, and questionable car,” says Jeremy Littlejohn, chief analyst at • • •
apply to you, along futures continue to hold the line on IT bud- RISC Networks (www.riscnetworks.com). SECURITYISATOPenterprise concern, espe-
with tips to ease gets. Nowhere is this playing out more stark- “The more miles you have, the more impor- cially when it’s intellectual property, data, or
compliance burdens. ly than in the data center, where equipment is tant the maintenance.” other valued assets that belong to either you
See page 26. being pushed beyond its originally intended Unfortunately, as the miles pile up, or your customers. Within Cadence, security
lifespan. Cost savings associated with avoid- increased maintenance needs often collide is an omnipresent way of life purposefully
ing capital investments are often more than with growing business needs. Aging equip- and continually woven into the mindset of
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
ment could expose the business to reduced literally every employee. In short, security is
■Server Technology’s Sentry Power Manager brings availability due to more frequent failures and integral to the culture Cadence has fostered.
Key Points
PDU intelligencedata together to give you the big greater difficulty in sourcing spare parts.
power picture..............................................page 14 Consider the following problems as you try
• Inadequate power and cooling management to make do with what you have.
■Buying Guide:Cable Management..........page 15 can turn aging equipment into doorstoppers.
■Product Spotlight:Cable Management....page 16 Focus on cleaning up the environment first to Too Much Heat
squeeze the most life out of your hardware. Heat is hardware’s worst enemy, and over Cadence works with the world’s largest
■Product Spotlight: Power Protection ......page 18
the years, elevated temperatures—especially semiconductor manufacturers and system
• Software patches and updates are just as
■Product Spotlight:Portable Cooling........page 20 important regardless of age. Don’t ease off in small spaces—can reduce the lifespan of companies. As a leading provider of EDA
data center equipment. Popular methods for (electronic design automation) tools and
■When building a data center, it might seem smart on the maintenance regimen just because a
minimizing cold air loss throughout the facil- technologies that help semiconductor, system
server is past its best-before date.
tooversize in hopes of accommodating future
ity are using blanking panels in server racks design, and other companies design, verify,
needs.But in reality, the extra space will still require • Equipment failure is often mistakenly attrib- and installing air-locking grommets in
maintenance and cooling and may not be right for the uted to age, when in many cases, sketchy raised-floor panels.
Key Points
future; thus, it’s better to right-size..............page 22 network performance is what starts it all. “An effective HVAC system is a must to
■In a nutshell, afuel cell can generate electrical Monitor surrounding infrastructure to pinpoint extend the life of data center equipment,”
power quietly, efficiently, and with low to zero root causes. says Peter Wallace, CIO for the City of • Cadence provides electronic design
automation tools and technologies to some
emissions....................................................page 23 Go to Page 10
of the world’s largest semiconductor manu-
■Lowering costs while increasing efficiencyis facturers and system companies.
the mantra for today’s enterprise data centers and IT
• The company’s Hosted Design SaaS offer-
departments. Many major trends can help enterprises
ing provides a highly collaborative, private
do just that..................................................page 24
cloud computing environment.
NETWORKING & VPN • Because of the sensitive data Cadence
works with, security is paramount to avoid
■Entuity updated its Eye of the Storm Enterprise
customer data falling into competitors’ hands.
2011network management suite..............page 23
STORAGE and prepare complex integrated circuits and
electronics, Cadence must make security
■As you add more storage capacity, you have to add
paramount companywide or risk customer
the infrastructure to support it. Solving both problems
data falling into competitors’ hands. In this
at once is Isilon Systems’ specialty................page 30
regard, Cadence is on the leading edge of the
■How can enterprises meet high-performance EDA industry in several areas via its CSI
storagedemands while watching costs?......page 31 (Cadence Security Initiative), Information
Security Group, mandated employee security
■The Idealstor Bantam combines the best of tape and
training, methodologies and processes, and
hard disk into aremovable backupsystem....page 31
secure collaboration chambers.
■Application hosting company MarketLive needs to keep Cadence’s Hosted Design solution is a
its virtual doors always open. That’s why it turned to SaaS offering for semiconductor designers
Scale Computing for near-real-time backup....page 32 that puts Cadence’s tools and technologies in
a highly collaborative, private cloud comput-
ing environment aimed at reducing customer
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SECURITY
| for CDNs, content providers, and service pro- Holdings, a group of tech companies orga-
■A report from Verizon found that 86% of victimized China Leads In List
viders. The company says that the acquisition, nized by Microsoft, for $450 million in cash,
companies hadevidence of a breachin the data Of Top 500 Supercomputers
which comes on the heels of its recent pur- which is reflected in the merger consideration
logs. Here, we’ll tell you how to look for evidence in According to the most chase of Trapeze Networks, will enhance the to be paid by Attachmate. It was not disclosed
your data logs..............................................page 33 recent rankings from scalability and performance of its rich which patents the group was purchasing.
■Unfortunately, SMEs generally can’t affordhighly Top500.org, which media delivery portfolio. |
Worldwide Data Center
rates the most pow-
trained IT security staff—or even a single dedicat- |
Attachmate Acquires Infrastructure Market Shows Gains
erful supercomput-
ed security manager. In such circumstances, what
Novell, Sells Some
should be done?..........................................page 34 ers twice a year, Things are looking up for the worldwide data
Intellectual Property
China has over- center infrastructure market. Revenues for
■We tell you how to set up employee monitoring taken the top spot Attachmate, an investment power distribution units, uninterruptible power
correctly in order to maximize its benefits and mini- with the Tianjin group owned by Francisco supplies, racks, and cooling for the second
mize its downsides......................................page 35 National Super- Partners, Golden Gate Capital, quarter of 2010 increased 6.9%, while ship-
■Most medical personnel are not aware of thelegal computer and Thoma Bravo, has signed a ments broadened 3.6%. This gave the market
risks of exposing sensitive dataand don’t under- Center’s definitive agreement to purchase a year-over-year revenue loss of just 1.8%
stand the need for tools such as passwords and Tianhe-1A software maker Novell for about while shipments increased 2.6%. From an
encryption. However, methods do exist to address system. The $2.2 billion. The agreement will individual company revenue perspective,
these problems............................................page 36 Tianhe-1A also see Novell shareholder Eaton led the UPS market at 30.2%, HP was
surpassed Elliott Management be- on top of data center racks at 22.5%, APC by
SERVERS the former come an Attachmate Schneider Electric led the PDU market with
leader, the equity shareholder. In a 29.1%, and Emerson Network Power and
■Buying Guide: Oak Ridge statement regarding the Liebert led data center cooling with 47.9% of
Blade Servers..............................................page 37 Leadership acquisition, Attachmate CEO Q2 2010 revenues.
■Product Spotlight: Computing Facility’s Cray XT5 Jaguar sys- Jeff Hawn said his company plans to maintain
Blade Servers ............................................page 38 tem, by posting a performance of 2.67 peta- and further strengthen the Novell and SUSE
flops to the Cray XT5 Jaguar’s 1.75 petaflops. brands, and Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said
CLIENTS The Tianhe-1A’s win ends a six-year run by the deal gives Novell’s customers, partners,
the United States of having the top spot in and employees opportunities to build on its
■As a leading provider of electronic design automa- the Top500.org ratings. Overall, the United “history of innovation and market leadership,”
tion tools and technologies that help companies States has 275 of the 500 systems on the list; as Novell, SUSE, Attachmate, and NetIQ have
design, verify, and prepare complex integrated China has 42. complementary product portfolios and many
circuits and electronics, Cadence must make secu-
| shared customers. The deal is expected to
rity paramount companywide or risk customer data Juniper Acquires Blackwave
complete in the first quarter of next year.
falling into competitors’ hands ......................page 1 Juniper Networks is moving deeper into Additionally, Novell has agreed
■TheMI-ION2 motherboardfrom Giada is packed content delivery networking with its latest to a concurrent sale of
with features that can enhance the equipment your acquisition. The company has bought out the certain intellectual
company uses for its daily business ............page 35 intellectual property assets of online video property assets
delivery and storage firm Blackwave of Acton, to CPTN
■With the Apple iPad, a number of crucial capabili- Mass. Juniper didn’t reveal the terms of the
ties that are needed for remote enterprise work, such transaction, but it did announce that it would
as support for VPNs, printing, and multitasking with incorporate Blackwave’s technology, such as
two or more applications, were missing from the its Blackwave System video streaming solution,
original version. Although that didn’t deter many con- into its own Media Flow Controller offering
sumers, it did give IT managers much less reason to
treat the iPad as a serious work device........page 40
WATCH THE
This information provides a quick glimpse of current and historical stock
DATA CENTER STOCKS prices and trends for 13 major companies in the technology market.
MANAGEMENT
|
State Of The Network Global Study
■Instead of boosting efficiency and capacity by buy-
% change from Reveals Enterprise Trends
ing new equipment and systems, why not find ways Company Symbol Year Ago Nov. 11 $ Nov. 23 $ previous issue
to achieve that withlegacy equipment? Here are AMD AMD $6.95 $7.63 $7.32 ▼4.06% Enterprises want to implement new technologies,
some ways to get more performance out of your CA Technologies CA $22.04 $23.39 $23.09 ▼1.28% but they don’t have enough IT management
existing infrastructure..................................page 42 Cisco Systems CSCO $23.74 $20.52 $19.20 ▼6.43% tools, according to Network Instruments’ State of
■When it comes togreen technology adoption, Dell DELL $14.32 $13.93 $13.82 ▼0.79% the Network Global Study. One of the biggest
Google GOOG $583.09 $617.19 $583.01 ▼5.54% challenges to deploying cloud-based projects,
there are a number of factors behind the gap
HP HPQ $50.19 $43.10 $44.19 ▲2.53% virtualization, and unified communication initia-
between stated goals and actual execution. Part of
tives is identifying and troubleshooting the
IBM IBM $127.93 $145.43 $143.18 ▼1.55%
the reason is lack of ownership....................page 43
problem source. Some of the primary findings
Intel INTC $19.39 $21.21 $21.09 ▼0.57%
■Cloud computingis emerging as one of the McAfee MFE $40.86 $47.36 $46.73 ▼1.33% indicate that network professionals are increas-
hottest technologies for IT. However, diving in with Microsoft MSFT $29.91 $26.68 $25.12 ▼5.85% ingly welcoming cloud computing, that there is
both feet isn’t always the best approach......page 44 Oracle ORCL $22.14 $28.57 $27.19 ▼4.83% difficulty in monitoring the cloud, and that the
future of videoconferencing is strong. The study
Red Hat Software RHT $27.50 $43.57 $42.25 ▼3.03%
results show that 47% of respondents desire to
The Processor.com home page is frequently updated with Symantec SYMC $17.94 $17.07 $16.73 ▼1.99%
move to the cloud for improved application avail-
new articles and hardware news to help you keep current.
NOTE: This information is meant for reference only and should not be used as a basis for buy/sell decisions. ability and lower infrastructure costs.
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IT Events News
Upcoming
Are you looking to learn more about data center
or IT topics? Network with some of your peers? federal radar bands and 15MHz consolidat- certain tasks from being completed. Stuxnet
|
Consider joining a group of data center iPhone Leads In Smartphone
ed from spectrum bands currently used for is also difficult to detect because it doesn’t
professionals. If you have an event you’d like Customer Satisfaction
meteorological observation. The identifica- corrupt files like most viruses do.
listed, please send an email to
[email protected]. According to a survey by ChangeWave tion is part of a plan announced last June by |
Study: 50 ISPs Responsible
Research, iPhone owners are more satisfied President Obama to discover 500MHz of
For Most Of The World’s Spam
with their phones than any other consumers, spectrum in response to the fear that smart-
- DECEMBER -
with 77% stating that they were “very satis- phones and other mobile devices will domi- Researchers at Delft University of Technol-
AITP Long Island
fied.” Motorola took second in the survey of nate the spectrum. ogy in the Netherlands and Michigan State
Dec. 4
www.aitp-li.org more than 1,200 con- | University studied 109 billion spam mes-
Gartner Cites
• • • • • sumers, with 74% of its sages from 170 million unique IP addresses
Four Trends That
Gartner Data Center Conference users claiming satisfaction, from 2005 to 2009 and determined that just
Dec. 6-9 Will Change Business
while HTC took third with 50 ISPs host most of the world’s spam. The
Caesars Palace
63%. On the lower end of New technologies always Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Las Vegas, Nev.
www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1244913 the scale were Samsung impact business, and Development commissioned the study and
• • • • • with 45% and Research In research firm Gartner has found that malware-infected PCs generate,
International Computer Measurement Motion with 44%. In terms recently released a report on average, 80 to 90% of the world’s spam.
Group Conference
of individual handsets, the noting four trends in partic- The researchers also found out that most
Dec. 6-10
32GB iPhone 4 topped the ular that it says will do so of the infected PCs generating spam are on
Gaylord Palms Resort
Orlando, Fla. list at 84% satisfied, fol- over the next several years: well-known ISPs. The findings suggest that
www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2010 lowed by the 16GB iPhone cloud computing, social in order to impact spam in a big way, new
• • • • • 4 (78%). As for Android computing, context-aware security schemes should target those top
VMware Vsphere 4.0
handsets, consumers pre- computing, and pattern- ISPs first.
Dec. 6
New Horizons Computer Learning Center ferred the HTC Evo 4G based strategy. All four | Dell Mobile Executive To Step Aside
Lexington, Ky. (76%) and the Motorola deal ultimately with the
www.nhlexington.com Droid 2 (74%). analysis and transfer of Ron Garriques, president of Dell’s communi-
• • • • • information, and Gartner cation solutions group, announced in mid-
|
Exchange Server 2010 NetApp
VP Peter Sondergaard November that he will leave the company.
Dec. 7, 9 a.m. Financial Results
notes, “At the heart of the Garriques, who formerly served as Motorola’s
New Horizons Austin Show Revenue Growth
tinyurl.com/NHAustin2 change in the next 20 years will be intelli- president of mobile devices, reportedly made
Dec. 8, 1 p.m. NetApp announced its second-quarter fiscal gence drawn from information.” Even social the decision following a reorganization effort
New Horizons San Antonio results, which showed a surge in year-over- networking, today largely a personal activity, at Dell that will tie cell phone and tablet mar-
tinyurl.com/NHFtWorth2
year revenue from $910 million to $1.21 bil- will impact business, as the fluidity of keting responsibilities into Dell’s other
Dec. 10, 9 a.m.
lion, an increase of 33%. Over the same time intercourse through those media business units, thus eliminating
New Horizons Dallas
tinyurl.com/NHDallas2 period, GAAP net income was $165 million comes to replace what Son- the communications solutions
• • • • • vs. $96 million last year, while non-GAAP dergaard calls the “rigid group that Garriques oversaw.
Greater Wheeling AITP income was $203 million, an increase over business processes” Garriques, who came to Dell
Dec. 8
$130 million from the same time last year. that currently dominate in 2007 and had a hand in
Wheeling, W.Va.
The company projects third-quarter income to enterprise organization- Dell’s release of the Aero
www.aitp-wheeling.org
rise about 3 to 7% sequentially (23 to 28% al architectures. smartphone and Streak
• • • • •
ISSA Central Pennsylvania year over year) and hit between $1.24 billion | tablet, will get a $1.44 mil-
Intel Invests
Dec. 8 to $1.29 billion. During the second quarter, lion severance payment
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology In Mobile, Cloud,
NetApp introduced new products and ser- and $378,000 incentive
326 Market St. Social Gaming
vices that likely contributed to its success. bonus payout, according to
Harrisburg, Pa.
centralpenn.issa.org | Intel sees big things happen- a filing Dell made with the SEC.
Android To Gain Tablet Market Share
• • • • • ing in the wireless and cloud Although his departure is set for
ISSA San Diego According to IMS Research, Google’s spaces and is willing to back up that Jan. 31, 2011, he’ll stay on with Dell in a
Dec. 8
Android operating system will likely account vision with cash: The chipmaker recently consultant role until the end of 2011 that will
San Diego, Calif.
for 15% of the tablet market in 2011 and will reported that it will be investing $77 million in pay him about $6.3 million.
www.sdissa.org
• • • • • grow to 28% of the market by the end of a group of 18 cloud and mobile computing | Study Shows 500 Million
Southern New England 2015. In the short term, at least part of the companies. The investment, which will be
To Use Mobile Health Apps In 2015
SQL Server User’s Group increase will likely be due to the release of made through Intel Capital, the company’s
Dec. 8
the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which will be investment arm, will go to companies located According to mobile research company
www.snessug.com
available through mobile carriers, and future in 11 countries, including Germany, India, research2guidance, 500 million people will
• • • • •
AITP Washington D.C. versions of Android are being developed to the Ukraine, and the United States. The com- use healthcare applications on their mobile
Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. work on larger-screen devices than are cur- panies include Adaptivity, Boo-box, De Novo, devices in 2015, an estimated 30% of all
Alfio’s Restaurant rently possible. Further, a number of tech Lilliputian Systems, Ortiva Wireless, Select- smartphone users. Although mHealth (mobile
4515 Willard Ave.
companies, including Cisco, Dell, Motorola, TV, SilkRoad, Verismo Networks, and YuMe. health) solutions have been discussed for the
Chevy Chase, Md.
Samsung, and Acer, have plans to sell Intel is also investing in social gaming, recent- last 10 years, the company says smartphones
aitpwashdc.ning.com
Android-based tablets in 2011. Android’s top ly helping to fund Aurora Feint, a Burlingame, are the main reason mHealth solutions will
• • • • •
ISSA Northeast Ohio competition in the tablet operating system Calif.,-based platform maker. soon be successful. Today, 17,000 mobile
Dec. 9 market comes from Apple and Microsoft. | health applications exist in major app stores,
Cuyahoga County Library-Parma South Research Finds Stuxnet Worm
according to the company. Apps can be
7335 Ridge Road | HP Reports Promising Targets Frequency Converter Drives
designed for the consumer or patient, but
Parma, Ohio Financial Results
www.neoissa.org A recent study by Symantec revealed that the many apps (43%) are designed with health-
• • • • • HP posted better-than-expected numbers in Stuxnet worm, originally discovered in June, care professionals in mind, including contin-
SQL Server Society of Las Vegas the fourth quarter, leading to an increased was designed to infiltrate power supply sys- ued medical education, remote monitoring,
Dec. 9
outlook for 2011. Net revenue was $33.3 tems such as those found in nuclear facilities. and healthcare management applications.
The Learning Center of Las Vegas
777 North Rainbow billion, an 8% increase over the same time However, it specifically targeted the frequen- | Spam Levels Down 47%
Las Vegas, Nev. period last year. GAAP operating profit was cy converter drives within industrial control
Since August
sssolv.com $3.3 billion, a 5% increase over last year, systems that were created at companies
• • • • • and non-GAAP operating profit increased located in Finland and Iran. The reason this According to statistics from Internet security
Visual Studio 2010: A First Look
10% to $4 billion. For the fiscal year 2010, malware is so dangerous is because it can company Symantec, the spam volume in
Dec. 9, 9 a.m.
the company enjoyed a net revenue increase interrupt automated commands and prevent October decreased by 47% from levels seen
New Horizons Cincinnati
10653 Techwoods Circle of 10% to $126 billion. Earnings per share in August and went down another 5% in the
Cincinnati, Ohio also increased to 18% (GAAP diluted earn- first half of November. Symantec says the
tinyurl.com/NHCincinnati2 ings per share) and 19% (non-GAAP diluted sharp decline is due in large part to the dis-
• • • • • earnings per share). Some of the growth mantling of several malicious spam opera-
Visual Studio 2010
came from HP’s networking business, which tions, including the Bredolab botnet and the
Dec. 10, 9 a.m.
New Horizons Dayton was bolstered by its 3Com revenue. Zeus cybercrime ring, and the shutdown of
1890 Commerce Center Spamit.com. However, despite the drop in
|
Two New Spectrum Bands
Fairborn, Ohio spam, Symantec says that phishing attacks
tinyurl.com/NHDayton3 Could Alleviate Shortage
are on the rise, with attackers using social
• • • • •
Two new spectrum bands have been identi- networking and holiday-themed emails and
AITP Pittsburgh
Dec. 13 fied by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Web sites to infect users’ computers with
Slovak Catholic Sokol National Telecommunications and Information malware. Symantec predicts that, as is often
205 Madison St. Road Administration that could be used by the pub- the case following takedowns of cybercrime
Venetia, Pa.
lic to help alleviate the ever-growing shortage operations, spam will rebound gradually over
www.aitp-pgh.org
of available broadband spectrum. The two the next few months as attackers rebuild their
bands total 115MHz, including 100MHz of malware armies.
For more Upcoming IT Events, see page 11.
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S T A T S & F A C T S
PROVIDINGTHELATESTINSIGHT& INFORMATIONFROMLEADINGRESEARCH FIRMS
Are Tablet Computers IT Spending
Invading The Enterprise? Forecasts
Recent data from market research- Are we seeing an Forrester
ers at Strategy Analytics show upward trend for IT
that the Apple iPad has a com- spending? Or will
2010 IT Spending 2011 IT Spending
manding lead in the market. And cautious optimism reign
8.1% increase over 2009 7.4% increase over 2010
the device, one of the fastest- into next year? Here
selling tech gadgets in history, is are the latest IT spend-
“It looks to me that both the U.S. economy and the global economy will fall
making its way into enterprises, ing forecasts from three
betweenextremes of strong growth or recession, growing weakly but not slipping
according to Forrester. major research groups.
back into recession.”
It’s interesting to see
— Andrew Bartels, Forrester vice president
where IT spending is
4.19MILLION Number of iPads sold during headed, but remember,
Apple’s fourth quarter (Apple) these aren’t apples-to-
95% iPad’s share of the tablet computing apples comparisons Gartner
market (Strategy Analytics) because of the differ-
ent elements each re- 2010 IT Spending 2011 IT Spending
30% IT departments testing or planning tablet
search group factors in
computing applications (Forrester) 2.4% increase over 2009 3.1% increase over 2010
its calculations.
43% IT departments interested in tablet
“Emerging economies continue to be the locomotive of enterprise IT spending.”
computers (Forrester)
— Peter Sondergaard, Gartner senior vice president
Forrester sees three ways
tablets are entering workplaces: IDC
1 As a third device in the mobile computing arsenal
2010 IT Spending 2011 IT Spending
for executives and mobile professionals (laptops
and smartphones are the other two devices). 6% increase over 2009 1% increase over 2010
2 As replacements for clipboards
and paper. “Our surveys indicate that businesses are still cautious about committing to new, long-
term IT projects and are still anxious about the possibility of a double-dip recession.”
3 In situations where no previous connected
—Stephen Minton, IDC vice president of Worldwide IT Markets and Strategies
solution was convenient or would work.
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of Elite Wallmount Cabinets. Each cabinet ter applications. Siemon’s SFF-8470 deliver new levels of performance. Powered Unmanaged, Standalone or Chassis-based,
has reversible doors, a Plexiglas front assemblies offer data transfer rates from by the Junos OS, the T4000 Core Router Fast Ethernet, Gigabit, 10/100, and
door, keylocks, and cutouts for ventilation. 2.5Gbps to 10+Gbps per lane for support features 240Gbps per slot, optimization for 10/100/1000. The media converters can
The Elite Wallmount Cabinets come in of high-speed interconnect applications. transport networks, and 4 terabits of line connect to any fiber and copper cable type
three different heights from 12 to 26 rack- rate throughput in a half rack chassis. and distance and include an onboard
mount units. Multiple accessories are also NETWORKING& VPN microcontroller to aid in error detection
■Lumeta IPsonar
available, including a Brush Grommet Kit and recovery.
and Waterfall Radius Bracket. ■Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Network Lumeta announced a release of IPsonar,
Optimization Solution which integrates discovery, visualization, ■QLogic 12400
■CommScope Uniprise Ultra 10 UTP Alcatel-Lucent released a group of ser- and analysis enhancements. These include QLogic announced the QLogic 12400, a
CommScope released the Uniprise Ultra vices and software tools under the IPsonar custom services, a device discov- turnkey gateway that links InfiniBand
10 UTP, an unshielded twisted pair copper Wireless Network Optimization name. ery module, and comparison reporting. clusters to the Ethernet cloud. The 26-port,
structured cabling system for 10Gbps The release is based on the company’s This release also features HTTPS testing QDR 40Gbps InfiniBand gateway features
Ethernet applications such as streaming Network Optimization solution and adds abilities and SSL Certificate identifica- six 10GbE ports to provide seamless con-
video, online media sharing, and virtual such tools as RF design audits, remote net- tion, which reports on SSL Certificate nectivity between an organization’s
file storage. The Uniprise Ultra 10 UTP work monitoring, the LTE-TIA services attributes such as IP address and Internal Ethernet infrastructure and InfiniBand
cable can block alien crosstalk at frequen- suite, and reverse engineering abilities. DNS Name. networks, resulting in high-speed cloud
cies of up to 500MHz, CommScope says. access for HPC (high-performance com-
■Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches ■ManageEngine SQLDBManager Plus
puting) resources.
■Digi International ConnectPort LTS Brocade announced the industry’s first Austin-based ManageEngine announced
Digi International announced Connect- true Ethernet fabric switching solutions enhancements to its database monitoring ■RAD Data Communications
Port LTS, a multifunction wireless pro- built for virtualized and cloud-optimized software, SQLDBManager Plus. The MiRICi-155
grammable terminal server. Designed to data centers, via its Brocade VDX 6720 update adds monitoring of virtual log files, RAD Data Communications released
minimize equipment space requirements Data Center Switches. The 10GbE switch- grouping of critical databases, and trigger- the MiRICi-155, a Gigabit Ethernet-over-
and reduce costs, ConnectPort LTS fea- es eliminate the need for STP. ing of customized queries and alarms SDH/SONET converter in an SFP. The
tures serial-to-IP connectivity; ZigBee when it detects an unexpected condition. MiRICi-155, which complies with the
wireless communications; 8-, 16-, and 32- ■Caspio Cloud Computing Platform The product monitors VLF metrics, which Multi-Source Agreement, plugs into any
port options; an internal modem; USB 2.0 Caspio released advanced reporting fea- helps administrators understand the cause Gigabit Ethernet device as it pulls power
ports for expandability; a large LCD tures for its cloud computing platform. of declines in database performance. from the host device. The device is also
screen; and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. These SaaS features include step-by-step hot-swappable, adds network flexibility,
■Network Instruments Observer
wizards, data aggregation, data grouping, and integrates easily in ad-hoc installa-
■HP SignagePlayer mp8000s & mp8000r Infrastructure
embedded deployment, dynamic dash- tions, RAD says.
HP launched a series of digital sign boards, and “unlimited user” pricing. The Network Instruments released an update
products aimed at independent retailers features help to maintain dynamic reporting to Observer Infrastructure, a tool that pro- ■Raritan CommandCenter Secure
and small to midsized enterprises that and data visualization, Caspio says. vides detailed metrics and analysis of Gateway Virtual Version
wish to feature digital signage, either at a underlying application delivery infrastruc- Raritan released a virtual version of its
single location or across a small network. ■Enterasys Networks DCM ture. The update provides visibility of vir- CommandCenter Secure Gateway that
SignagePlayer displays slideshows and Enterasys Networks announced Enter- tual, WAN, and database environments uses VMware vSphere 4.0 technology.
video loops as well as more sophisticated asys DCM (Data Center Manager), a prod- and adds new reports and investigation The appliance offers remote, centralized,
layouts that include text, images, anima- uct that is part of Enterasys’ data center workflows. The product is compatible and secure access to data center equip-
tions, RSS feeds, and interactive content. strategy. Designed to provide automation, with Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, ment, and provides the same functionality
visibility, and control over the data center VMware ESX servers, and Parallels as Raritan’s hardware-based Command-
■Matrox Extio F2408 fabric, Data Center Manager gives users Virtuozzo Containers. Center Secure Gateway versions but can
Matrox released the Extio F2408, a better management tools over the network, function as a centralized gateway to man-
■NetVision NVMonitor, NVAssess
remote KVM that can be connected via storage, and applications. age physical and virtual servers, embed-
& Access Rights Inspector
fiber-optic cable to a host system about ded service processors, serial devices, and
half a mile away. Matrox says the Extio ■Entuity Eye of the Storm (EYE) NetVision released upgrades to its suite power-management devices.
F2408 is silent and reliable enough for Enterprise 2011 of access rights reporting applications.
mission-critical applications. It supports Entuity updated its Eye of the Storm The upgrades add enhancements that ■Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4
up to four 2,560 x 1,600 screens and USB (EYE) Enterprise 2011 network manage- include an expansion of the platforms cov- Red Hat released Red Hat Network
2.0 input devices. ment suite. The new version adds an ered and new reporting tools that provide Satellite 5.4, the latest version of Red
enhanced Web-based UI and integrated administrators with statistics on the state Hat’s on-premises systems management
■Opto 22 OptoEMU Sensor infrastructure mapping that lets administra- of user permissions over the network, pre- solution that provides software updates,
Opto 22 introduced the OptoEMU Sen- tors easily and quickly visualize even senting the opportunity to discover and configuration management, provisioning
sor, part of a planned packaged, network- enterprise-class network infrastructures. It remediate inappropriate permissions. and monitoring across both physical and
able system that allows small to midsized also increases support for popular virtual- virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
■Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
enterprises to collect energy consumption ization platforms, including VMware ESXi Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 delivers
Ops Center
data from electrical panels, metering and Oracle VM. Entuity’s IFA (Integrated compliance improvements, greater flexi-
devices, and other equipment. The product Flow Analyzer), which lets users view, Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise bility in content management, and im-
also provides communications interfaces add, and edit the Application-to-Port map- Manager 11g Ops Center, a tool designed proved subscription management.
and data integration capabilities. pings used by IFA, simplify the process to help reduce hardware management
and make maintenance easier. EYE’s new costs with new hardware management ■Riverbed Technology Cloud Steelhead
■SIE Computing Solutions 505 Series Live Status functionality provides focused capabilities for several engineered Oracle Riverbed Technology announced Cloud
SIE Computing Solutions introduced the monitoring attention through a user cus- systems as well as Oracle’s network fab- Steelhead, a WAN optimization tool
505 Series 3U enclosure, which is a 3U 7- tomizable Web-based dialog that tracks ric. Features include integrated infrastruc- designed specifically for public cloud
slot CompactPCI benchtop chassis. The and reports current status of monitored ture management, application-to-disk environments. Features include easy
SIE 505 Series is a configurable enclosure devices, ports, or applications. For more on management, lifecycle management, and installation, scalability within cloud ser-
solution for systems in embedded telecom- this product, see page 23. hardware management and support. vice provider environments, transparent
munications, military, and test and mea- cloud interception, a subscription-based
■Oracle Solaris 11 Express
surement applications. It offers support for pricing model, portal-based management,
AC or DC input and a pluggable positive Oracle recently announced Solaris 11 and easy cloning. Cloud Steelhead will
pressure cooling scheme in the front. Express, which is designed to reduce also integrate with Amazon’s EC2 and
planned downtime and reduce the need Virtual Private Cloud.
■Siemon Thumbscrew Fastener for patching and maintenance reboots.
For SFF-8470 4X Solaris 11 Express also supports the ■ Silver Peak Systems VRX-8 Virtual WAN
Siemon announced a thumbscrew fas- Oracle Exadata X2-2 and X2-8 Database Optimization Appliance
tener option for its 40+Gb/s SFF-8470 4X Machines and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Silver Peak Systems released version
passive copper cabling assemblies. The cloud machine. 4.0 software of its Silver Peak VRX-8
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virtual WAN optimization appliance. of their infrastructure by identifying inter- enterprises. The release combines soft- storage system. Cartridges currently come
Silver Peak’s latest software release dependencies within various infrastructure ware, servers, and storage into an appli- in 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB
includes optimization features, customiz- layers such as server, network, security, ance capable of consolidating a company’s capacities. For more on this product, see
able application dashboards, and support and middleware. multivendor storage assets, Dot Hill states, page 31.
for Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server virtual- while improving storage efficiency, sim-
ization product to enable virtualization STORAGE plifying management, and enhancing flex- ■Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
across the entire enterprise. The Silver ibility in IT and business. Pricing starts at Parallel Data Warehouse
Peak VRX-8 delivers up to 1Gbps of end- ■BridgeSTOR Application Optimized $63,960 for Standard appliances. Microsoft announced SQL Server 2008
to-end throughput and is specifically Storage Appliances R2 Parallel Data Warehouse and the
designed to meet the requirements of BridgeSTOR released the AOS Appli- ■InMage Scout 5.5 Microsoft Critical Advantage Program,
today’s most demanding WAN applica- ance for VMware Virtualization and AOS InMage released version 5.5 of its Scout which let users design, deploy, and opti-
tions. Release 4.0 of Silver Peak’s Backup Exec 2010 Deduplicating Backup backup and disaster recovery software. mize appliance-based data warehouse sys-
embedded software also increases Silver Appliance, which provide enhanced data The software supports backup for Ex- tems that meet their unique needs.
Peak’s unique Network Memory dedupli- reduction for VMware and backup. The change 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft also previewed the next version
cation capabilities by up to 50%. Net- appliances originate from Virtual Storage- MySQL 5.1 applications and vSphere 4.x, of SQL Server, code-named “Denali.”
work Memory eliminates the transfer of Advanced Data Reduction, which pro- RHEL 5.4/5.5, and OpenSolaris 5.11 plat-
repetitive bytes of information. vides data deduplication, compression, forms. InMage Scout 5.5 also lets users ■NetApp Shared IT Infrastructure Portfolio
encryption, and thin provisioning, and the manage backups and monitoring from a NetApp introduced several products that
■Streamcore SaaS Application Virtual Input/Output-Network Attachment, browser-based console. emphasize flexible and efficient designs and
HTTPS Traffic Classification a 10GbE technologywith reduced latency. facilitate the move to a shared IT infrastruc-
■Idealstor Bantam
Streamcore announced the availabil- ture environment. Updated offerings include
ity of an advanced HTTPS traffic classifi- ■Datacore Microsoft Windows Server Businesses like the speed of hard drives Data ONTAP 8, FAS/V6200 Series high-
cation capability for SaaS applications on 2008 R2 Failover Clustering for backup duty. They also like the offsite end storage systems, FAS/ V3200 Series
enterprise networks. Streamcore’s classifi- Datacore made storage scalability, per- portability of tape, which has made it an midrange storage systems, solid-state dri-
cation feature automatically detects SaaS formance, and high-availability enhance- important disaster recovery medium. In the ves, SAS Disk Shelf, the OnCommand
traffic, such as Salesforce, Citrix GoTo- ments to Failover Clustering in Micro- Bantam ($199 and up), Idealstor provides Management Software Suite, and the
Meeting, Google Apps or Microsoft soft Windows Server 2008 R2 with an ideal storage format for fast, reliable, FlexPod Modular Data Center Solution.
Online Services. Once classified, Stream- Hyper-V. The newest capabilities in- portable backups. The Idealstor Bantam
core solutions can monitor and prioritize clude the elimination of storage-related encloses standard 2.5-inch SATA hard ■Panasas ActiveStor 12
any type of SaaS traffic over corporate downtime for clustered file shares. The drives in ruggedized, removable cartridges, Panasas released Panasas ActiveStor 12,
Internet access links to ensure the best solution also offers virtualized storage combining the performance benefits of which is built on fourth-generation blade
possible performance. configuration and speeds up SANs for disk with the architecture and is the world’s fastest par-
clustered shared volumes. offsite storage allel storage system, according to the com-
■VServe24/7 Application Assurance capabilities of pany. Featuring Panasas’ PanFS parallel
Analyzer Managed Services ■Dot Hill AssuredUVS tape. Backup file system, 64-bit multicore processing,
VServe24/7 released its AAA (Appli- Standard & Datacenter and manage- and integrated 10GbE technology, the
cation Assurance Analyzer) managed ser- Dot Hill announced its AssuredUVS ment software PAS 12 features 1.5GBps performance
vices to support the health of database Standard and AssuredUVS Datacenter comes bundled that can scale to 150GBps. The unit is
infrastructure, provide a methodology for unified virtual storage solutions, aimed at with the Ban- available in modular configurations that
scaling, and find bottlenecks. AAA bringing storage virtualization benefits to tam USB 3.0, start at 40TB for $110,000.
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■CoSoSys Endpoint Protector
mated updates and backups. STIX architecture, which it says uses a
■Promise Technology VTrak Ex30 AutoRun Disable “stick” form factor in the place of blades.
Promise Technology announced its CoSoSys’ Endpoint Protector features ■SunGard Adaptiv Riskbox Each stick is composed of two “slices”—a
VTrak Ex30 series of storage solutions. AutoRun Disable, a tool designed to SunGard released Adaptiv Riskbox, a motherboard and an x16 second-genera-
This series of products includes 10G keep malware from spreading via physi- credit risk product aimed at helping tion PCI-E 2.0 slot—plus up to 4TB of
iSCSI, 1Gb iSCSI, 6Gb SAS, and 8Gb cal computer interfaces, such as USB banks quickly analyze and explain risk hard drive and SSD storage.
Fibre channel options that all feature the ports. AutoRun Disable lets computers results as a way of helping them stream-
Intel Xeon C5500/C3500 processor. selectively disable AutoRun in Windows line the daily risk production process. ■Supermicro GPU SuperBlade SBI-7126TG
VTrak’s improvements increases perfor- operating systems without disabling the The software monitors feeds, identifies Supermicro introduced the GPU Super-
mance speeds from 1500MBps to up to feature for all devices. AutoRun Disable errors, and processes corrections to allow Blade SBI-7126TG, a blade system that
6000MBps. It comes with dual power is a free download. the incremental application of changes packs up to 20 Nvidia Tesla M2070 or
supplies/cooling units; can be configured and corrections. C2070 Fermi GPU cards and up to 20
■Fortinet FortiMail-3000C
to have up to 384TB of storage; and it Intel Xeon 5600 or 5500 series CPUs in a
can be used for primary storage or for Fortinet announced FortiMail-3000C, its ■Tenable Network Security Nessus 4.4 7U enclosure. Outfitted with x16 second-
disaster recovery, cloud storage, or virtu- messaging security appliance. FortiMail- Tenable Network Security, a provider of generation PCI-E 2.0, the SuperBlade
alization. Multiple configurations are 3000C supports Web mail, IMAP, and unified security monitoring solutions, also supports optional QDR 40Gbps
available to meet different budgets and POP3 email clients and includes Identity- released Nessus 4.4. For users who sub- InfiniBand, the company says.
capacity needs. Based Encryption, which allows encrypted scribe to Tenable’s Professional Feed ser-
emails to be sent without any user provi- vice, the upgrade allows for accessing a ■Supermicro TwinBlade
■QStar Object Storage Manager sioning. The appliance is designed for cor- Web-based feature that supports schedul- SBA-7222G-T2
QStar introduced the QStar Object porations with high email counts and has ing of scans, which is driven by scan poli- Supermicro released the TwinBlade
Storage Manager, which is an unstruc- 16GB of RAM and can support up to 6TB cies stored directly on the server. The SBA-7222G-T2, a blade module that is
tured data management and archiving of RAID 1/5/10/50 storage. release also makes it possible to schedule optimized for 12-core AMD Opteron
software platform that is ideally suited to one-time and recurring scans. Nessus 4.4 6100 series processors. It can fill a 42U
■ GFI Software LANguard 9.6
healthcare, media and entertainment, gov- also includes improved reporting abilities standard rack with up to 2,880 process-
ernment, and research/education organiza- GFI Software announced the latest ver- that assist in the analysis of vulnerability ing cores, Supermicro says, at an
tions that work with petabytes of data. sion of LANguard, a network security scan results through access to HTML- increased performance per watt. It’s
QStar’s OSM is a self-managing and self- solution that automates missing patch based executive summaries, as well as intended for HPC, cloud computing, and
healing object-based storage platform that detection and remediation for popular detailed summary reports. data center use.
is optimized for long-term archiving and GFI
cloud storage. Features include a user- MESSAGING& TELEPHONY ■Oracle Tutor 14
friendly interface, retention management Oracle announced Oracle Tutor 14, a
with Legal Hold, encryption, and a back- ■CounterPath Bria Android Edition process documentation tool designed to be
end TCP/IP switch for communicating CounterPath released Bria, its VoIP a single, user-friendly repository for docu-
between nodes and load balancing read application for the Android platform. The menting and sharing business processes.
and write requests. application features background operation, Features include streamlined training,
security and encryption settings, and information sharing, document consisten-
■RAID Xanadu 300 voicemail. Bria also has many deskphone- cy, and import and export capabilities via
RAID’s Xanadu 300 storage solution like options, including holding, forward- Oracle Business Process Management
features a 6Gb SAS architecture and up to ing, and rejecting calls. In addition, GSM, Suite 11g and Oracle Business Process
40GBps drive reads per rack. It also has iLBC, and G.711 a/u audio codec support Analysis Suite 11g.
4U building blocks with 60 front-loaded is included with G.729 support available
drives, each sustaining up to 4GBps. browsers running on Windows systems, for an additional cost. ■Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Multiple Xanadu 300 systems can be com- including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Red Hat released version 6 of its flag-
bined using a parallel file system for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple ■GFI Software FAXmaker 2011 ship Linux server operating system. The
added capacity and performance. Safari, and Opera. GFI LANguard com- GFI Software released the latest version commercial open-source OS now has
bines vulnerability scanning, patch man- of its network fax server software, better resource management and perfor-
■Riverbed Technology Whitewater agement, and network and software FAXmaker 2011, complete with FoIP mance, scalability, power saving, virtual-
Riverbed Technology released the auditing into one solution that’s aimed at (Fax over IP) support. Aimed at SMEs, the ization, and a range of updated desktop
Riverbed Whitewater appliance, which streamlining network-related security software supports faxing straight from and server applications. Cloud, virtual-
accelerates cloud storage and offers dedu- processes and reducing vulnerability lev- email clients. The enhancements include ized, and physical deployments can all
plication capabilities. The appliance gives els. The update includes automatic a new OCR engine, Network Share sav- benefit from the new OS, Red Hat says.
customers a fast, cost-efficient, and secure patching for new applications, real-time ing support, Fax Class 2.1 speeds, and
way to integrate cloud storage into their notification of product updates, and Dialogic SDK v6.3 support. CLIENTS
existing backup infrastructure and disaster enhanced auto-approval of patches for
recovery strategies. Whitewater supports Microsoft applications. ■Mitel Freedom Architecture ■ Giada MI-ION2 Motherboard
environments powered by EMC Atmos, Mitel announced the Mitel Freedom Giada Technology announced the avail-
■Network Box Sentinel AV
AT&T Synaptic Storage as a ServiceSM, architecture, which offers a single cloud ability of its MI-ION2 motherboard. The
and Amazon S3. Network Box released the Sentinel AV, computing-ready software stream that
a virus detection and signature service. delivers various communications options
■Voltaire-Supermicro Sentinel AV is designed to reduce for integrating a voice solution into net-
RapidStorage Appliance response time to Internet threats by mak- works and applications. Mitel also
Voltaire and Supermicro announced ing and releasing its own signatures when announced Mitel Anywhere, a cloud-based
the Voltaire-Supermicro RapidStorage it detects unknown, potential malware. UC offering; VMware View desktop virtu-
Appliance, which is designed to deliver Sentinel AV also benefits from Network al integration; and expanded UC support
ultra-fast, scalable, and cost-effective stor- Box’s continually updated Security for Android, BlackBerry Playbook, and
age for high-performance clusters. Response system. iPad devices.
The Voltaire-Supermicro RapidStorage
Appliance is a building block for massive- ■SolarWinds Permissions Analyzer SERVERS
For Active Directory
ly scalable high performance storage sys-
tems that can deliver millions of I/Ops and SolarWinds announced the Permissions ■SGI Prism XL
hundreds of GBps. Analyzer for Active Directory, a free tool SGI released an
that’s designed to give users a quick and accelerator-based
easy solution to help answer, “Who has HPC platform that it GIADA
SECURITY the permission to do what?” You can view says can provide up MI-ION2 has a mini-ITX form factor. It
a complete hierarchical view of the effec- to a petaflop of com- uses the Intel Atom dual-core processor
■Athena Security tive permissions and access rights for a puting power in a and includes the Intel NM10 Express
Firewall Rule Tracker specific file folder (NTFS) or share drive, single cabinet. The chipset. The MI-ION2 uses Nvidia’s
Athena Security announced the Firewall and browse for permissions by group or GPU-agnostic sys- GT218-ION graphics with 512MB of
Rule Tracker, a rule documentation com- individual user. tem supports PCI-E VRAM (video RAM) and HDMI and DVI
pliance solution. Rule Tracker’s primary accelerator cards of outputs for a 1080p resolution, making it
■SpamTitan WebTitan 3.50
benefits include device connection flexi- up to 300W from ideal for digital signage and entertain-
bility, retainable business justification his- SpamTitan announced its WebTitan Nvidia, AMD, or ment. The MI-ION2 also features two
tory, shared spreadsheet reports, and 3.50 Web-filtering solution for SMEs. Tilera. It’s extremely SO-DIMM memory slots that can accom-
mixed vendor support. The Athena Designed to protect employees from dense and scalable, modate up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHz
Firewall Rule Tracker starts at $250 per Internet threats and enforce Internet poli- SGI says, freeing up RAM. It also comes with six USB ports
firewall. It’s also available as an add-on cies, WebTitan 3.50 provides analysis, floor space and re- and two SATA 3Gbps ports. For more on
solution to Athena FirePAC. summaries, and full reports that can be SGI ducing TCO. SGI this product, see page 35.
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Securing Intellectual Property Responsible for much of the training is
Improving Security
the Cadence Security Initiative, a gover-
nance body originally sponsored out of the At Customer Locations
Continued from Page 1 “closed project chambers,” or private com- CEO’s office. CSI’s purpose is validating
Design is Cadence’s virtual IT infrastruc- puting clouds, aren’t cheap in comparison security roadmaps and helping prioritize William Krueger, Cadence IT director for infor-
ture, and Hosted Design’s ongoing success to public cloud models, he says, but “the security initiatives based on risk profiles mation protection, says, “In security, we’re
depends on security. Cadence has gone intent here first and foremost is to keep the Lochab’s group develops. CSI also oversees only as good as the weakest link. We’re here
above and beyond the call. data secure.” compliance with customer data handling to correct that weakest link.”
(NOTE: Recently, Cadence introduced William Krueger, Cadence IT director for requirements via such entities as Label, Log
an EDA360 initiative that promises to dra- information protection, says Cadence may & Secure, which is a system for applying That’s why, in addition to its Hosted Design
matically transform the traditional EDA dip its toe in the public cloud space next protocols on how to log customer data and Solutions, Cadence also works directly with
model. For more, see the December issue year, but “until security is at a high enough encrypt customer IP and designating those customers to improve security in their enter-
of our sister publication PC Today level that we can provide the same guaran- employees authorized to access data. prises. The EDA Infrastructure Acceleration
[www.pctoday.com].) tee to our customers, we won’t move into Elsewhere, Cadence hosts periodic secu- Services team consists of IT and CAD experts
that area.” Lochab adds that data configura- rity forums for CIO-level execs, makes who work with customers around the globe.
Closed To The Public
tion, identity access structures, authentica- security an agenda item on executive team Regardless of size, the focus is on each indi-
As Cadence IT Group Director For tion, and other requirements are coming members’ goal sheets, and provides quar- vidual customer’s security needs, including
Information Protection, Jaswinder Lochab together, but public cloud options still lack terly visibility into security goals to a gov- detecting problems with existing security mea-
heads the Information Security Group that the security Cadence needs. ernance body that reviews security inci- sures, identifying hardware and tools needed
facilitates Cadence’s security measures dents and ensures accountability for such to better safeguard the customer’s environ-
Collaboration Without “Oops”
regarding company and customer data. The incidents. Further, security metrics main- ment, and attaining security certifications.
team’s mandate is protecting every aspect of The Cadence Information Security tained for Cadence’s tools help executives
customer data within Cadence’s infrastruc- Group “audits the life out of [Cadence’s decipher what’s being done correctly and intellectual property within their own
ture, along with Cadence’s source code, Hosted Design models] to make sure where investments are paying off. physical domain, meaning Cadence
employee data, and internal infrastructure. there’s no ‘oops,’” Krueger says, meaning Cadence’s incident-reporting system shipped employees to the customer’s site
The team includes operational-minded peo- continuous monitoring of configuration empowers anyone witnessing a question- for project work. Now, more customers
ple who perform daily infrastructure main- management. “Governance, compliance, able data- or IP-related incident to report it are willing to put at least some of their
tenance and senior-level solution architects auditing, and monitoring are actually the via an internal management system. “I intellectual property in the secure Cadence
who structure secure environments, includ- banner we fly right now as our highest pri- think we’ve done a tremendous job in environment, Lochab says.
ing Hosted Design project chambers cus- ority,” Krueger says. making employees very aware of the pro- Ultimately, Cadence hopes to move
tomized for each individual customer To that end, Cadence has several mea- tocols around security, and they feel very “security down to the data itself,” Krueger
engagement, Lochab says. sures in place affecting every employee, comfortable bringing things to our atten- says, so it’s at “the lowest denominator
Although Cadence offers multiple including mandatory, ongoing training and tion,” Lochab says. Krueger adds, “That’s where I have the best control over it.”
Hosted Design models, each includes a awareness. Every employee undergoes a where CSI has been effective in getting Krueger also says Cadence expects to one
requisite product suite and technologies comprehensive Security 101 course, man- the executives to push it down to the day conduct behavior modeling, “because
along with customer-specific customiza- agers undergo secondary Security 201 employees to understand this is important the biggest threat we deal with, and it
tions and functional specifications. Built training, and any employee who touches to Cadence and everyone needs to pay never changes, is people.” For now,
on a robust infrastructure, each model fea- customer data or any employee who sup- attention to it.” Cadence is beginning to test secure appli-
tures collaborative environments in which ports an employee handling data goes cations that support customers accessing
Proof Is In The Collaboration
IP is exchanged without risk of exposure through Security 301 training. Those in data via any device. “We’ll authenticate
outside of Cadence or, Lochab says, “other Cadence’s services organization attend Enlisting such security would be for you at the application level, and you can do
project domains within Cadence where a incremental workshops on protecting cus- naught if customers didn’t buy in. what you need to do,” Krueger says. P
competitor may be doing another design tomer data, and R&D employees attend Cadence’s are. Previously, most of Ca-
project also hosted within Cadence.” These separate training annually. dence’s customers preferred to keep their Contact:[phone] | www.cadence.com
Manage Aging Equipment the hardware pool and its associated main-
WAN Performance Ignored
tenance load.
Wallace says virtualizing helped the When resolving data center performance
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Unmonitored Power
Chesapeake, Va. “Organizations should new capital expenditure by bypassing closely on the facility instead of the network
make sure their HVAC system is supported If badly maintained UPSes are like new hardware purchases and a data cen- that feeds it. Littlejohn describes WANs as
with backup power so that temperature and ticking time bombs, unmonitored power ter expansion. The initiative extended “the forgotten component” of data centers.
power spikes do not impact equipment.” can similarly make attached hardware their existing equipment’s lifespan and “I would say that in easily 25% of the
old before its time. Conventional power returned an annual $200,000 savings in data centers we evaluate, the WAN is not
Invisible Uninterruptible Power Supplies
distribution units don’t provide adequate hardware costs. provisioned properly and shows perfor-
UPSes are often mistakenly overlooked visibility into power usage. This can lead mance issues,” Littlejohn says. “These are
Slipshod Application Maintenance
as a root cause of data center downtime. to power imbalances within the data cen- quickly blamed on the ‘old’ servers or
Hardware that’s plugged into an inadequate- ter, which, beyond inefficient energy Maintenance becomes more crucial to ‘ancient’ switches.”
ly maintained UPS—or, worse, no UPS at use, can also upset the cooling environ- maximizing uptime as equipment ages, By focusing root cause analysis on the
all—will fail more often than equipment ment. To combat imbalances, IP-capable and the same is true of applications. IT underlying network infrastructure, problems
that is fed clean, monitored current. Older PDUs can be retrofitted to existing serv- must work with its business partners previously classified as hardware-related
equipment is even more susceptible to fluc- er cabinets and existing PDUs to more to define both acceptable and unaccept- stand a greater chance of being properly cat-
tuation-related failure. effectively balance power demands with able levels of performance. This ensures egorized and resolved. P
“UPS maintenance is very critical,” actual supply. proper prioritization of effort in the event
says Keith Gislason, director of product “You will continue to provide reliable of an outage and ensures that routine
Top Problem:
management for Avocent Products and power distribution with the existing PDUs,” maintenance activities aren’t forgotten,
Services, a division of Emerson Network says Julie Brown, marketing manager with either. Wallace recommends developing Substandard Layout
“Software is king in the data center. . . . So even if you don’t
Hardware can age—and fail—prematurely
for many reasons. A surprising root cause is
update your hardware, make sure the software, BIOS, patches, often the way it’s laid out within the facility.
Simply moving equipment into new posi-
tions can drive efficiencies in airflow and
etc., on your infrastructure and servers are all up-to-date.”
power that can in turn reduce in-service
stress on the hardware.
- RISC Networks’ Jeremy Littlejohn
“Obviously, the more information you can
Power (www.avocent.com). “You don’t Server Technology (www.servertech.com), benchmarks for business performance get, the better decisions you can make,”
build a data center unless you want your “but you will combine it with local and that include applications as well as hard- says Keith Gislason, director of product
servers to stay up, and to do that, you remote power and environmental monitor- ware. Littlejohn is more succinct. management for Avocent Products and
need clean power. Maintaining your UPS ing via IP using the additional device.” “First, forget about hardware; software is Services, a division of Emerson Network
Power (www.avocent.com). Gislason adds
prolongs its life and the life of your king in the data center,” Littlejohn says,
Too Much Hardware that properly positioning blanking panels,
equipment in addition to reducing down- adding that most key forms of automation
clearing floor grates of debris, and reposi-
time. This is not an area that any business As equipment ages and reliability drops, are more dependent on software than on
tioning cables away from airflows can return
will ever compromise.” maintenance needs increase tremendous- hardware. “So even if you don’t update your
immediate gains in hot/cold air manage-
A study on UPS reliability conducted by ly. Instead of looking for best practices hardware, make sure the software, BIOS,
ment. “You can do some of that by trial and
Emerson Network Power showed the to streamline fixes to the same old hard- patches, etc., on your infrastructure and
error,” he says. “Of course it’ll never be as
MTBF of a UPS that received two preven- ware, Wallace recommends seizing the servers are all up-to-date.”
effective as a full CFD analysis, but you can
tive maintenance visits per year is 23 times opportunity to get rid of the hardware alto- He also recommends keeping a close
certainly start down that path on your own.”
better than a UPS that is not maintained. gether. Virtualization reduces the size of watch on application and event logs.