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Which Storage Conferences Are Worth Attending?
InfoStor February 1 , 2012
01 Feb 2012
"I got a call from someone asking me what storage conference he should attend in 2012. I thought it might be interesting to list some of the lesser-known conferences and why they are interesting. First, there's the USENIX Conference and File and Storage Technologies Fast12. Take a quick look at the technical sessions and the tutorials. Clearly, you see that this is a highly technical conference that also has a significant research bent, and it clearly has significant industry representation from almost all of the major storage vendors ..."
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Security Best Practices Pay Off
Baseline February 1, 2012
01 Feb 2012
"Well-prepared companies fare significantly better than their competitors when faced with IT security threats ... IT security concerns never go out of style ... The recent data breach at Zappos.com—in which 24 million customers had personal information stolen—is just the latest in a seemingly endless series of reminders that a comprehensive and multi-layered security strategy is essential to any business ..."
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SPARC T4 Server Momentum Expands Demand for SPARC System
SPARC T4 Servers Adopted By Customers Across All Industries, Regions
31 Jan 2012
Oracle’s SPARC T4 enterprise servers and complete software stack are engineered to enable customers to consolidate multiple application tiers onto a single server, reduce system complexity, and improve utilization. Oracle credits the SPARC T4 with driving midrange server volume that can power enterprise and mission-critical applications on Oracle Solaris 10 or 11, with guaranteed full binary compatibility back to Oracle Solaris 2.6. SPARC T4 server customers who use Solaris 11 can take advantage of cloud-scale life cycle management with secure, fail-safe boot environments, safe roll-backs, 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots.
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Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Earn Highest Ratings for Enterprise and Midrange NAS Systems
Oracle Beats NetApp and EMC in Storage Magazine Quality Awards for NAS
31 Jan 2012
Storage magazine has awarded top honors to Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solutions for both enterprise and midrange NAS. EMC and NetApp received lesser marks for their storage technologies. Oracle outperformed its rivals in terms of initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence. More than 3.000 customers have discovered that Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
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Oracle Ships Over 1 Exabyte of Media for StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives
Also Leads in Shipments of Tape Libraries
31 Jan 2012
Oracle has shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of calendar year 2011, according to IDC’s Worldwide Tape QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle also shipped the most tape libraries, over 1,000 slots, and held over 70 percent market share for LTO libraries over 1,000 slots, according to QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive is the world's fastest tape drive, also delivering a 5TB native capacity -- the world's highest -- with a transfer rate of up to 252 MB/second.
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