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Rack-Level PDU Hardware & Power Management Software Unite In Server Technology’s Sentry Power System
Sometimes,all it takes to determine where this size, this level of success made pos- across customers have been very dispersed hierarchical fashion in any way it choos-
a company should concentrate its efforts sible by focusing only on PDUs,” Harris and very demanding. es. Thus, IT can set thresholds, turn on
is listening to its customers. That’s exactly says. “We’ve proven to the industry that “Power itself has become a mission- reporting, change timeframes, and turn
what Server Technology did in developing we know how to make the world’s best critical resource,” he says. “It’s no longer outlets on and off across the entire enter-
its new Sentry Power SystemSM, an innova- PDUs. As the (data center) industry has a generic category within the data center. prise “without worrying about ‘Which
tive, bar-raising solution that brings custom- become more demanding for intelligence People actually care greatly about the PDU is that on? Which country is it
er-requested simplicity to the management and capacity, we continue to be the leader quality and reliability and intelligence installed in? How do I get there?’ And
of rack-based PDUs. Featuring exclusive in the space.” of the PDUs they’re installing.” Harris that’s really what customers have been
SNAP technology, Sentry explains that five years pushing us for,” Harris says.
Power System forms a tight ago, the PDU was treat- “It allows you basically to separate what
marriage between Server ed as a generic device. are otherwise physical deployment bound-
Tech’s family of CDUs Today, RFPs are being aries, and now you can approach them
(cabinet power distribution written solely for PDU logically,” Harris says. So, IT can create a
units) and Sentry Power selection. Accompanying hierarchy that places, say, the enterprise’s
Manager software to enable this rethinking toward finance organization in one branch and
true plug-and-play ability PDUs, Harris says, is cus- engineering group in another, or in a data
and easy management of all tomers’ desire for a solu- center, place the video streaming and chat
PDUs from one manage- tion that addresses the groups within the Internet structure in sep-
ment console. challenge of managing arate branches. “The idea is you can create
“We listen to our cus- increasingly intelligent a hierarchical tree that essentially groups
tomers very carefully. and growing populations and manages all PDUs and power under
What they are asking for of PDUs. That solution, that tree as granular or macro as you like,”
is an easier way to manage Harris says, is Sentry Harris says.
large populations of PDU Power System featuring Beyond simplifying PDU discovery,
devices,” says Mark Harris, SNAP technology. configuration, and upgrades, Sentry
vice president of marketing Power System also supports measuring
Easily Managed Power
at Server Tech. Thus was and monitoring of power data per outlet,
born SNAP, an enterprise- SNAP is embedded device, application, or rack; managing
class technology that brings in running across SSL- alerts and alarms; and enabling the trend-
a tighter integration of the encrypted tunnels, and is ing and reporting of power data. Sentry
company’s PDU hardware embedded in Server Tech Power System can operate as a stand-
devices to its software man- CDUs and Sentry Power alone system or integrate with existing
agement platform, SPM. Manager software to DCIM or BMS installations.
“There’s nothing else like it enable true plug-and-play
Simplified Availability
in the industry,” Harris says. functionality. Thus, says
“Until now, customers have Harris, “when you take Server Tech is including Sentry Power
been left without the means Server Tech’s PDUs with System in all shipping versions of Sentry
to proactively manage large SNAP technology out of PDUs and Sentry Power Manager. For
populations of PDUs. Sentry the box, they auto-config- current customers, SNAP can be enabled
Power System and its amaz- ure, they auto-discover, in their PDUs with a free firmware
ing SNAP technology deliv- they auto-everything. You upgrade change to version 6.1e or higher
ers this today.” can go back and modify if combined with SPM software version 5.1
you like, but they essen- or higher. P
Simplicity In A SNAP
tially come out of the box
That Server Tech is running. We’re the only
Server Technology
bringing simplicity to PDU vendor that does that kind
Sentry Power System
management isn’t surpris- of thing.”
ing. The company has From the user’s per-
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creating rack-based hard- System provides a single
ware and software power system for power man-
Sentry Power System features SNAP
solutions, authoring three dozen patents For example, when the company intro- agement across the enterprise. “If you
technology, which tightly integrates Server
and delivering millions of ports of power duced Sentry Power Manager years ago, it want to turn every outlet of power on
Technology’s hardware Sentry CDUs and
during that time. Although competitors provided a set of tools to assist in managing across your entire company, it’s one key
Sentry Power Manager software to simplify
have popped up along the way offering the configuration, monitoring, and other click,” Harris says.
PDU management.
similar functionality, Server Tech is the parameters of its hardware. In recent years, Further, Sentry Power System allows
industry’s only company with “this scale, however, Harris says that installations IT to organize an enterprise’s PDUs in a
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Study Finds Fewer Errors In Study Predicts Booming Job Creation Enterprises Growing IT Hiring Continues To Rise
Open-Source Code Than Proprietary & Revenues For Cloud Computing More Comfortable
According to Robert Half Technology, IT hiring
With Social Networking
The free and open nature of open-source Research from a study by IDC and Microsoft will increase again in the second quarter, though
software may raise security concerns with outlines expectations that by 2015, the cloud More enterprises are allowing their employ- not at the same rate as in the first quarter. The
users, but according to new data from Coverity, computing industry will create nearly 14 million ees to access social networking sites than recruiting firm says that 8% of the 1,400 CIOs
those concerns may be unfounded. In its 2011 jobs in tech and related fields and will see rev- ever before, according to recent findings from it surveyed plan to expand their IT departments
Coverity Scan Open-Source Integrity enues of $1.1 trillion or more. The cloud research firm Gartner. In 2010, Gartner found and 5% said they expect cutbacks, resulting in
Report, the development testing market is experiencing explosive that 50% of large enterprises blocked social a net gain of 3% for the quarter. The majority of
firm found that there are fewer growth because of the inherent sites such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter; the CIOs surveyed—85%—plan to maintain their
defects per thousand lines opportunities for savings that however, the firm predicts that by 2014, that staffing levels. IT employment reached an all-time
of open-source code than come from streamlined IT pro- number will drop to 30%. Researchers advise high last month, according to TechServe Alliance,
per thousand lines of pro- cesses, lower capital costs, enterprises to embrace the potential benefits and grew 3.4% overall in 2011. Robert Half Tech-
prietary code. Coverity’s and better flexibility. The study of social networking rather than ignore social nology expects hiring to continue to increase
Scan project analyzed posits that a large part of the media, but they caution enterprises to take at a slow but steady rate this year, provided the
more than 37 million lines job creation will come from care with security, to establish policies govern- economy continues to improve.
of open-source code and IT vendors and organizations ing how employees behave on social sites,
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IBM Study Projects Major Growth
more than 300 million lines of adding to their workforces as and to utilize social media when investigating
In Use Of Cloud Computing
proprietary code using a testing they build out cloud implementa- potential new hires.
platform designed to find new and tions. The researchers expect that most By 2015, the number of enterprises using some
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Dell Acquires SonicWall
existing types of defects. Proprietary code jobs will be created in the manufacturing, bank- form of cloud computing is expected to double,
averaged about 0.64 defects per thousand lines, ing, and media and communications arenas. Dell announced that it is purchasing cyberse- according to a recent study from IBM. With the
while open-source code averaged about 0.45; Emerging markets are expected to see the most curity company SonicWall in an effort to beef help of the Economist Intelligence Unit, IBM
topping the list of safest open-source programs growth in cloud-related jobs. up its own cybersecurity offerings. SonicWall’s surveyed more than 500 business and IT execu-
were Linux 2.6, PHP 5.3, and PostgreSQL 9.1. specialty is unified threat management solu- tives around the world and found that 90% of
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Smartphones Overtake Feature
tions, which unite multiple security systems, the survey respondents are currently using
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Mac OS X Posts Record Increase, Phones Among U.S. Adults
such as antivirus, content filtering, and intru- cloud computing in their enterprises or are
WinXP Continues To Slide
New research from the Pew Internet and Amer- sion detection and prevention, into one cen- planning to do so within the next two years. The
The latest OS market share numbers from Net ican Life Project shows that more American trally managed appliance, simplifying threat reasons for moving to the cloud are many: 62%
Applications show Mac OS X and Windows 7 adults own smartphones than own feature management for enterprises, especially small pointed to increased collaboration with external
are on the rise and Windows XP is continuing its phones, with 45% of Pew’s survey respondents to midsized organizations. Dell’s SonicWall partners, 57% cited competitive cost advantag-
decline, with Win7 on track to overtake WinXP’s claiming their phones are smartphones. Broken acquisition follows a number of other security es, and 56% named opening new delivery chan-
top spot as early as May. WinXP ended February down by platform, 20% of U.S. cell phone own- acquisitions the company has made, includ- nels and markets as their biggest motivators.
with 45.4% of the OS market, down 1.8 percent- ers use Android phones, 19% use iPhones, ing buying Secure Works and App Assure,
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Fatter Pipes Needed To Keep Up
age points from the previous month; Win7 gained and 6% use BlackBerry phones. Compared to and will give the company a foothold in the
With Mobile Demands
1.7 percentage points to reach 38.1% by the end Pew’s statistics from May of last year, smart- next-gen firewall space. Financial terms of the
of February. Apple’s Mac OS X gained ground phone ownership increased the most among deal, which will close in Dell’s second quarter According to research firm iGR, by 2016, U.S.
over the course of the month, growing by more those aged 18 to 24, climbing 18%, and users and which was approved by both companies’ cellular networks will need to install backhaul
than half a percentage point to reach 6.9%—its aged 45 to 54 were close behind, with a 16% boards of directors, were not disclosed; how- pipes that are 10 times fatter than currently exist-
biggest one-month gain since Net Applications increase in smartphone ownership. Conversely, ever, Wall Street analysts expect the deal to be ing pipes, increasing their backhaul capacity by
began tracking the OS. Overall, Windows con- growth in smartphone ownership was smallest worth between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. a compound annual growth rate of 58%, in order
tinues to dominate the OS market with a 91.9% among users aged 65 and up, with that demo- to keep up with mobile demand and provide a
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Study Questions Cost Savings
spread among its various iterations. graphic growing just 2%. satisfying mobile experience for consumers.
Of Digital Records
Mobile demand in 2011 reached 750Gbps; by
The biggest driving factor behind moving 2016, analysts expect that number to increase
WATCH THE
This information provides a quick glimpse of current and historical stock to electronic health records has always nearly tenfold to 7.3Tbps. iGR expects the back-
STOCKS
prices and trends for 13 major companies in the technology market. been potential cost savings, which industry haul expansion to include a shift from older
experts have claimed will be around $80 copper-based pipelines to fiber and microwave
% change from billion per year; however, a study published options. In 2011, 60% of base stations used cop-
Company Symbol Year Ago March 1 $ March 15 $ previous issue in the journal Health Affairs says that EHRs per, 30% used fiber, and 10% used microwave
AMD AMD $8.31 $7.51 $8.25 ▲ 9.85% might not actually save that much and in fact links; by 2016, iGR predicts that 67% will be fiber,
Apple AAPL $334.64 $544.47 $585.56 ▲ 7.55% may lead to an increase in costly and poten- 19% copper, and 14% microwave.
CA Technologies CA $22.85 $27.15 $27.57 ▲ 1.55% tially unnecessary tests. The study showed
Cisco Systems CSCO $17 $19.88 $19.91 ▲ 0.15% that doctors without electronic tracking meth-
Dell DELL $14.11 $17.38 $17.35 ▼ 0.17% ods ordered tests on 12.9% of patient visits,
Google GOOG $561.36 $622.40 $621.13 ▼ 0.2% while doctors with access to EHRs ordered
HP HPQ $41.43 $25.25 $24.40 ▼ 3.37% tests on 18% of patient visits—a 40% higher
IBM IBM $154.18 $197.53 $206 ▲ 4.29% rate of image testing. The rate grew to 70%
Intel INTC $19.90 $26.86 $27.75 ▲ 3.31% for more advanced and expensive tests,
LinkedIn LNKD n/a $87 $92.40 ▲ 6.21% such as MRIs and CT scans. The research
Microsoft MSFT $24.78 $32.29 $32.85 ▲ 1.73% was based on a survey conducted in 2008 by
Oracle ORCL $30.55 $29.83 $30.06 ▲ 0.77% the National Center for Health Statistics, and
Red Hat Software RHT $39.29 $50.72 $50.73 ▲ 0.02% the researchers say it raises real concerns
Symantec SYMC $17.24 $17.89 $18.19 ▲ 1.68% about whether health information technology
will really be the boon to cost savings it’s
NOTE: This information is meant for reference only and should not be used as a basis for buy/sell decisions.
billed to be.
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❙ placed by China, which produces 95% of
Report Compares
Providing The Latest Insight & Information
these materials, according to the bringers of
Windows 8 vs. iOS Devices,
From Leading Research Firms
the complaint. The World Trade Organization
Raises Sales Projections
has begun consultations with China as part
Though iPads are currently the clear winner of its dispute settlement process; if the
in the tablet market, research firm Forrester matter is not resolved within 60 days, the
Q4 2011 Surge predicts that Windows 8 will make a good parties in question may request a dispute
showing when it’s released, especially in the settlement panel.
business market. The driver behind Win8’s
In Smartphone Sales ❙ Date Set For Oracle vs. Google
success will be ultrabooks, which Forrester
Patent Trial
sees as a viable competitor to Apple’s widely
Leads To Record Increases
loved iPad tablet. Win8 integrates the touch April 16 is when Google and Oracle will go to
features of tablets with the more traditional court for the patent infringement case Oracle
laptop-style touchpad and keyboard interface. brought against Google concerning some
According to Gartner, fourth-quarter 2011 smartphone sales increased by 47.3% year over
A recent survey conducted before Win8’s Java technologies used in Google’s Android
year, totaling 149 million units in that single quarter. In total for 2011, 472 million smartphones
developer preview was released found that platform. Oracle alleges patent infringement,
were sold, comprising 31% of all mobile device sales. Apple sold a record number of iPhones,
10% of 1,810 adults who plan to buy tablets while Google claims that Sun Microsystems
making it the top smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter. Here’s Gartner’s breakdown of
will buy Win8 devices. In light of the trend worked closely with Google as Google devel-
which mobile devices consumers purchased most last year around the globe:
toward tablets and ultrabooks, Forrester has oped Android and that Sun was an Android
revised its estimate of U.S. tablet ownership in proponent; however, Oracle acquired Sun
2015 from 82.1 million to 105.1 million, and it and now owns its technologies. The trial has
predicts actual sales per year will jump from been pushed back several times due to dis-
10.8 million in 2010 to 60.3 million in 2016. agreements about validity of the complaints
❙ and confusion over the patents in question.
WD’s Hitachi/Viviti Technologies
Barring any changes, the trial will begin
Acquisition Finally Complete
on April 16 with Judge William Alsup of the
Western Digital announced the completion of U.S. District Court for the Northern District
its acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive business, of California presiding; it is expected to last
Viviti Technologies. Western Digital paid $3.9 about eight weeks.
billion in cash and 25 million shares worth about
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Mobile Network Satisfaction
$0.9 billion of common stock to Hitachi as part
Declines As Providers Struggle
of the purchase. The company will operate
To Keep Up
WD Technologies and HGST as wholly owned
subsidiaries. This acquisition will leave three A recent poll conducted by iPass found that
main companies to compete in the hard disk customer satisfaction with mobile networks
Nokia 23.8% drive market—Seagate Technology, Western declined 25% year over year, with 62% of
Samsung 17.7% Digital, and Toshiba. Although the acquisition respondents claiming satisfaction with their
was announced one year ago, the company mobile service in 2012, compared to 87% in
Apple 5% was forced to wait for regulatory approval from 2011. iPass surveyed 1,800 workers between
authorities worldwide. Several changes and pur- Jan. 11 and Feb. 3 and found that satisfaction
LG Electronics 4.9% chase agreements, including Western Digital’s with network speeds fell from 46% in 2011 to
ZTE 3.2% sales of intellectual property and manufacturing 34% this year, satisfaction with data cover-
equipment to Toshiba, were made before the age fell from 57% to 50%, and satisfaction
Research In Motion 2.9% company received full approval. with voice quality fell from 77% to 62%. iPass
❙ points to growing data traffic and an increase
HTC 2.4% Yahoo! Sues Facebook, in the number of devices as the biggest
Alleging Patent Infringement
Huawei 2.3% factors in the decline in customer satisfac-
Beleaguered Internet search company Yahoo! tion, citing a CTIA report that shows a 111%
Motorola 2.3% has filed suit against social networking titan increase in wireless network data traffic from
Facebook for patent infringement. Yahoo! June 2010 to June 2011; carriers find them-
alleges that Facebook has infringed on 10 of selves having to limit data usage and beef
its patents concerning customization, privacy, up their networks to handle that increase
Younger, Wealthier Consumers messaging, advertising, and social network- in traffic.
ing. The search company, which filed suit in
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FTC Issues Requirements
More Likely To Purchase San Jose, Calif., is requesting that Facebook
For Western Digital Acquisition
pay all damages caused by the alleged
Smartphones infringements. For its part, Facebook says it The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is
will fight the charges, which it calls “puzzling” requiring Western Digital to sell assets relat-
given the two companies’ longtime business ed to its hard drive manufacturing processes
A survey from Nielsen revealed that smartphone ownership
partnership. The suit is the first major move in order to complete its acquisition of Hitachi
is largely related to a person’s age and income. Nielsen says
made by new Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, Global Technologies. The proposed acquisi-
that those earning more per year are more likely to own a smart-
who took over in January four months after tion, according to the FTC, would be anti-
phone in all age categories. Additionally, younger users, especially
former CEO Carol Bartz made her departure. competitive, allowing Western Digital to con-
those aged 25 to 34, are more likely to own a smartphone regard-
trol a massive amount of the worldwide hard
less of their income. Below is the survey’s breakdown of smartphone
drive market after the acquisition. Western
ownership in terms of age vs. income:
Digital’s previous announcement that it
will sell part of its assets to Toshiba was in
Those earning $15,000 to $35,000 per year:
response to the FTC’s requests. Western
Ages 18 to 24 53% Digital will pay $4.5 billion for Hitachi Global
Ages 25 to 34 58% Technologies, and all transactions with
Ages 35 to 44 44% Toshiba are conditional based on the final
approval of the acquisition.
Ages 45 to 54 32%
❙
Ages 55 to 64 17% John Fauteux Appointed
Ages 65 and older 15% As Server Tech VP
❙
Several Countries File
Server Technology recently appointed a new
Those earning more than $100,000 per year: Trade Complaint Against China
vice president of worldwide sales—John
Ages 18 to 24 77% Officials in the United States, the European Fauteux, who previously worked for Avocent-
Ages 25 to 34 80% Union, and Japan have filed a trade com- Emerson Network Power as vice president
plaint against China, citing unfair export of global sales. Fauteux also worked as vice
Ages 35 to 44 75%
restraints on materials used in various president of branded sales, area sales direc-
Ages 45 to 54 60%
mobile devices. The countries behind the tor, regional sales manager, and strategic
Ages 55 to 64 48% complaint claim China has placed unfair account manager at Avocent, in addition to
Ages 65 and older 38% restrictions on export quotas and pricing working for Sprint and Tech Data before that.
requirements on rare earth metals, tungsten, In total, he has more than 15 years of data
and molybdenum, which are used in the center sales and management experience.
manufacturing of electronics, automobiles, Server Tech President Brandon Ewing offered
hybrid car batteries, wind turbines, and petro- his praise for Fauteux, saying he brings a
leum. Costs for the materials have been on new level of leadership to the company with a
the rise, largely because of the restrictions proven track record in the industry.
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News
the biggest increase in the Ethernet market, the closing price of the stock the day before 25% of the IT workforce and only about 8%
❙
AMD No Longer Holds Stake
largely driven by 10 Gigabit Ethernet, which the announcement. Quest will be a privately of managers, and as of 2009, just 18% of
In GlobalFoundries
experienced a 33% increase year over year held company co-owned by Insight Venture computer science graduates were women.
Advanced Micro Devices released its 9% in terms of revenue. The report also revealed Partners and company CEO Vinny Smith, ❙
Report: Social Media
share in GlobalFoundries and is now focus- that Cisco Systems is still the top manufactur- who owns 34% of the company, unless a
Monitoring Unused Now,
ing solely on chip design. AMD started er in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet segment, holding buyer posts a better offer for the bought-back
But Not For Long
the process of shedding its manufacturing nearly 70% of this market. stock within the next 60 days. All opera-
operations in 2009, when it spun off its own tions will carry on uninterrupted and without Recent research from SHARE and sponsored
❙
New Findings
manufacturing to GlobalFoundries while change, including Quest’s executive leader- by IBM revealed that most enterprises are
On Network Connections
maintaining a stake in the company. In this ship, according to the Aliso Viejo, Calif.,- not monitoring social media for business
new deal, AMD is paying $425 million in Mathematicians at the University of California, based company. Quest managed an 11.8% purposes, but would like to in the future.
cash for an updated chip supply agree- Davis, have uncovered that too many data increase in revenue year over year to $857.4 According to the survey respondents, 75%
ment, in which it will now be able to use connections in a network may actually cause million in 2011. are not currently collecting data from a social
other chip manufacturers if it so desires. damage to the network’s reliability. The re- ❙ media network, but slightly more than half
Cloud Apps Give SMBs
GlobalFoundries will now be wholly owned searchers found that instead of many con- of these IT professionals plan to increase
Competitive Advantage
by Advanced Technology Investment Co. All nections creating a redundant, strengthened such monitoring in the next one to two years.
of AMD’s 1.06 million shares, estimated to be network, too many connections can lead According to a Dell-commissioned study, The survey said Google is the No. 1 new
worth $278 million, will be transferred. to massive failure if just one connection is SMBs are now able to better compete with social media BI vendor, followed by SAS
faulty—meaning connected networks could larger enterprises through the use of cloud- and IBM. The most-used functions involving
❙
Apple Says It’s Helped
be susceptible to cascading failures when based solutions. Cloud business applica- social media data monitoring and collection
To Create 514,000 U.S. Jobs
overloaded. Although the study was centered tions have helped to reduce costs, increase involved PR and communications, customer
According to a study released by Apple and on interlocked power grids, this theory can be employee productivity, and improve cash service, and sales and marketing initiatives,
conducted by Analysis Group, Apple cre- applied to interconnected computer systems flow at smaller businesses, according to according to the report.
ated or supported 514,000 jobs in the United and networks. The researchers say these find- the study. Of the 400 SMBs surveyed, 87% ❙
Storage Software Market
States. The estimation includes jobs such as ings could be beneficial in balancing workloads said cloud apps have brought a competitive
Hits Record Annual Revenue
the delivery drivers for Apple products and within the cloud or even helping to manage advantage to their businesses. CRM applica-
those making the delivery vehicles used. DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. tions have doubled in their usage rate from IDC’s latest “Worldwide Storage Software
Although it may be a stretch, Apple does 24% to 55% among SMBs. The cloud appli- QView” report shows that the storage soft-
employ full-time employees in all 50 states, cations most in use at SMBs, according to ware market posted record sales in 2011. Last
totaling 47,000 at the company alone. Other the study, are related to project management year, revenue in this market increased 11.6%
contributing fields are directly associated (54%), business analytics and intelligence year over year to $14.16 billion in annual
with the development of Apple product (49%), payroll (48%), marketing automation revenue, the highest total this market has
components, both consumer and busi- (48%), and HR and performance man- seen. In terms of the top storage software
ness sales, transportation, the con- agement (43%). providers, EMC topped the list with 25.7%
struction of Apple stores, customer ❙ of the market, followed by IBM with 15.4%
February Search Engine
service call centers, and even app of the market and Symantec in the No. 3 slot
Market Share Revealed
development for the iOS platform. with a 14.2% share. Other markets tracked
Apple did not release a reason for comScore released its latest data by IDC that experienced significant growth
publishing the figures. for search engine rankings during rates year over year include the storage and
the month of February. According to device management market and the data
❙
AMD Buys SeaMicro
the research firm, Yahoo!’s share of protection and recovery market.
AMD is planning to buy SeaMicro the search engine market continues ❙
Survey: IT Buyers Prefer The iPad
for about $334 million. The acqui- to drop, while Google continues to
sition, according to AMD, is in dominate. Google sites accounted for According to a ChangeWave survey, IT buy-
response to the growing number 66.4% of the search market share in ers are far more likely to purchase the iPad
of cloud solutions being employed at February, a rise of 0.2% from the month than any other tablet device—accounting for
enterprises. With SeaMicro’s fabric tech- earlier. Microsoft sites accounted for 15.3% 84% of the respondents’ anticipated tablet
nology, AMD will be able to expand into the of the search share, Yahoo! sites accounted purchases in the second quarter and 77%
server technology market. AMD said the for 13.8% (down 0.3% from January), the of enterprises’ anticipated tablet purchases
❙
Study: Big Data Still
two companies’ technologies combined will Ask Network accounted for 3%, and AOL overall. Of all 1,600 respondents, 22% plan
An Unfamiliar Concept To Many
deliver a boost in performance and lower accounted for 1.5%. For reference, Google to purchase tablets for employees in the
cost and complexity within the data center. LogLogic’s recent survey helps to bring the received 11.7 billion explicit core search second quarter of this year. ChangeWave
SeaMicro was previously partnered with top term “big data” to light, revealing that many do queries in the month of February from U.S.- believes the anticipated second-quarter
chip-maker Intel. Intel says it plans to devel- not fully understand the term. According to the based home and work locations compared iPad purchases to be influenced largely
op its own integrated fabrics, but according study, about half (49%) of respondents said to Microsoft’s 2.7 billion queries and Yahoo!’s by the release of the latest version of the
to analysts, the SeaMicro buy will give AMD they are at least somewhat to very concerned 2.4 billion queries. Apple device. Rounding out the top five are
a leg up in the dense server market. The about managing big data, yet 38% said they ❙ Samsung, with 8% of planned purchases;
Group Releases Report
acquisition is expected to be finalized by the do not completely understand what big data Amazon, with 6%; HP, with 4%; and Asus,
Advocating For Women In IT
end of this month. is. About 59% of respondents said they do not with 3% of planned purchases.
❙ IE Holding Out As Top Browser currently have the tools within their IT systems The Institute for Women and Technology has ❙ RIM Buys Paratek Adaptive RF
to manage big data. According to LogLogic, released a report titled “Solutions to Recruit
Net Applications released its Desktop Top “big data is about many terabytes of unstruc- Technical Women,” in which it outlines a BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has
Browser Share Trend analysis, revealing tured data,” and with the lack of understand- number of suggestions for how to increase announced that it is acquiring Paratek Adaptive
that browser share has remained relatively ing related to the management of such data, the presence of women in the IT workplace. RF for an undisclosed amount. RIM plans to
unchanged quarter to quarter. Microsoft’s companies are leaving themselves exposed to The report advises that recruiters for tech use Paratek’s adaptive radio frequency front-
Internet Explorer held on to about 53% of risks and making ill-informed decisions. jobs should ensure that every job opening end components to improve its BlackBerry
the market globally in February, the same in IT has at least one woman candidate. To smartphones. Among the benefits of Paratek’s
❙
New Federal CTO Named
percentage it held at the first of the year. do so, the institute recommends building a RF technology are faster data uploads and
Firefox and Chrome also maintained their The White House announced Todd Park as gender-balanced internship program for such downloads, which lead to longer battery life;
shares at 20.9% and 18.9%, respectively. the new federal chief technology officer. Park positions, revising job descriptions to reduce intelligent antenna designs that make phones
Net Applications also looked at the share was formerly the CTO of the Department of gender bias, using social networks to better smaller and thinner; and improved user experi-
of desktop vs. mobile browser usage. Health and Human Services. Before working reach female candidates, and implementing ence and fewer dropped calls via its “Tunable
Smartphones and tablets have been in government, Park graduated magna cum a blind résumé screening process to further RF” technology. RIM plans to bring Paratek’s
increasingly taking slightly more share laude from Harvard and founded Athenahealth, prevent unconscious bias. Currently, it’s engineers and executives onboard to further
month to month in terms of usage, but PC a healthcare tech business. During his time at estimated that women make up about 15 to improve its technologies.
browsing actually took back some of that HHS, Park helped to promote electronic
share in February, rising to 92.5% from health records and HealthCare.gov, a site
the 90.8% in January. that allows insurance comparison shop-
ping. Park is also a supporter of open
❙
IDC Reveals State
government practices and has voiced his
Of Ethernet Switch Market
support for a more open, efficient, and
According to an IDC report, global Ethernet effective government body.
switch revenues totaled $21 billion last year.
❙
Quest Software Buys Back Stock,
The countries accounting for most of the
Becomes Privately Held
growth include Europe, the Middle East and
Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific Quest Software became a private com-
region; there was actually a slight decrease pany after buying back all public stock in
in Ethernet sales in North America. The early March. Quest paid about $2 billion
market increased 5.5% year over year to for the shares, or about $23 per share
$6.06 billion. The fourth quarter of 2011 saw in cash. The offer is 19% higher than
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F E AT U R E D P R O D U C T
A Whole New Level Of Storage
Aberdeen’s Petarack Offers More Than A Full Petabyte Of Fast, Flexible & Secure Storage
For most SMBs and enterpris- goal of 1PB, Aberdeen’s solution com- Fibre connections, you can install Fibre
Aberdeen Petarack
es, there is an ever-changing target for prises eight JBODs, each with 45 SAS Channel adapters and use the Petarack
total storage capacity. It used to be that drives holding 3TB of storage apiece. for RAW Fibre SAN storage. Even then,
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www.aberdeeninc.com
with technology evolving faster than provides 1,080TB of storage. One of the “You could fill all the slots in a Petarack
ever before, there is always room for most beneficial features of the product with Fibre cards and you wouldn’t be able
The Petarack is a high-capacity storage solu-
additional storage. Aberdeen saw this is how much data center room it saves, to reach its full potential,” Levitas says.
tion that supports a petabyte or more of stor-
need for almost unlimited storage and because all of this storage is available in
Supported Applications, Industries & age and provides high-speed performance
is attempting to fulfill it with its new a single 42U rack. This gives you enough
Environments for even the most demanding data centers.
Petarack storage solution, complete with space in your data center to hold mul-
The Petarack is also flexible enough to adapt
a total capacity of 1,080TB, or 1 pet- tiple Petarack configurations or to simply Aberdeen designed the Petarack to be
to and grow alongside your company to fulfill
abyte. But the company knew it couldn’t fit it in to your existing server and stor- used in a variety of industries and envi-
all future storage needs.
hastily design its product and ship it age environment. ronments. But according to Levitas, vir-
out to market before it was ready, so it When designing the Petarack, Aberdeen tualization and cloud computing are two
took ample time to find the perfect balance not only set out to reach the highest stor- areas where the Petarack can shine based only the tip of the iceberg, because almost
of storage and data protection features. age capacity, but also some of the highest on sheer capacity. Because Aberdeen’s any company that is searching for an ultra-
“Putting a petabyte together and actually network and transfer speeds possible for storage solution is scalable, it can be high-capacity storage can take advantage
making it work was a challenge,” says Niso a storage solution. “Petarack can act as a used to support cloud computing envi- of the Petarack.
Levitas, manager of research and develop- Ferrari or it can pull loads like a big rig, ronments of different sizes and grow
Flexibility For The Future
ment at Aberdeen (www.aberdeeninc.com).
“To my knowledge, no regular OS can rec- The Petarack is packed with capac-
ognize and serve that amount of storage ity and prepared for even the most
securely and no hardware RAID controller demanding storage needs, but per-
can combine more than 32 drives as a single haps the most important feature of the
array. We started with a no-limit ZFS file Petarack is its flexibility. In addition to
system, which was the only one that could its standard configuration of 360 drives
protect all this data and present it outside and 1,080TB of storage, there is even
the box at an incredible speed. It took eight room in the rack to add an additional
months and a team of engineers to deliver a 45 drives for an extra 135TB with a
product we could be proud of.” ninth JBOD. And if you choose to stick
with the original configuration, you
Customers Inspiring Innovation
have plenty of extra space for Ethernet
At Aberdeen, innovation always starts networking cards or host bus adapt-
with the needs of the customer, so the ers to improve speed and performance.
company set out to find the most impor- Ultimately, the Petarack is designed
tant features customers were looking for to fulfill your current needs but is
and combine them into one solution. “Our also flexible enough to grow with
customers loved our Linux NAS and your company.
Windows NAS products but demanded “You can start with terabytes of stor-
more sophisticated shared or block-level age and then easily grow it to petabytes,”
storage with enterprise features, such as Levitas says. “You can add cards to
unlimited snapshots and volume mirror- increase the connectivity and bandwidth,
ing,” Levitas says. “They wanted to be while only incurring the costs of the cards
able to share more than 64TB of storage, themselves. You can add another Petarack
which was the single array limit, as well and replicate it onsite or offsite. You
as have file system flexibility, server hous- won’t hit capacity limitations, you have
es, video houses, and shared storage with depending on your configuration,” Levitas depending on the current needs of the unlimited snapshots, and you can grow
native file systems.” says. “It is configured with dual six-core company. Instead of investing in mul- the Petarack to your liking. It’s a no-lim-
Aberdeen understood the frustration Xeon processors, can be configured with tiple racks and storage solutions, you its system.” P
of customers that needed high-capacity up to 192GB of memory and utilize most can simply add more storage or Ethernet
storage solutions that wouldn’t skimp on of it as cache, and it can be configured cards to increase and improve cloud per-
speed but also wouldn’t break a business with enterprise-level SSDs as a second formance. With virtualization, a petabyte Data Protection
budget. Through extensive research and layer of cache for demanding NFS.” And of storage can be used to serve hundreds
development, the company was able to Levitas says that Aberdeen is working on of virtual desktops, if it is set up and & Downtime
give customers everything they wanted, accommodating up to a terabyte of memo- configured correctly, Levitas says.
Prevention
including more than a full petabyte of ry in the future. Levitas also points out that the Petarack
storage, for only $495,000. The Petarack comes preconfigured is perfect for “video applications and
If you’re storing up to a petabyte of data
with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, which can be broadcast companies with Mac and
High-Capacity Storage & on one system, you’ll want to ensure that
directly connected to backbone network Windows editing workstations” as well as
High-Speed Performance data is thoroughly protected. That why
switches. Companies can also choose to for high-performance data clusters with
the Petarack “uses the incredible ZFS
With the Petarack, it all starts with add more 10GbE cards or InfiniBand for “powerful CPUs and massive amounts of
file system with copy-on-write technolo-
capacity. To reach the large capacity HPC, according to Levitas. If you prefer memory configurations.” These uses are
gy and an end-to-end checksum method
to avoid silent data corruption,” accord-
“Putting a petabyte together and actually making it work was ing to Niso Levitas, manager of research
and development at Aberdeen.On the
hardware side of things, Aberdeen has
a challenge. To my knowledge, no regular OS can recognize and
taken measures to help companies avoid
downtime and make sure that their mas-
serve that amount of storage securely and no hardware RAID sive amount of data is always available
to them. “The Petarack has redundant
controller can combine more than 32 drives as a single array.” head units so that a complete head unit
or other component failure will not affect
productivity,” Levitas says.
- Aberdeen’s Niso Levitas
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