GoGrid: Correctly measuring up the Cloud performance
By Tarry Singh at 17 March, 2009, 2:31 pm
GoGrid sets the record straight and also helps understand about the ideal Cloud disk usage and suggest to use streaming performance of block device. See for yourself:
Use the Right Tool
Secondly, hdparm -t isn’t a very good way to measure disk speed. It’s susceptible to noise from background activity, in fact the man page says:
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IGEL Releases Citrix XenDesktop™ Appliance Mode for Microsoft XP Embedded
By Tarry Singh at 13 January, 2009, 11:44 am
Reading, UK – January 13, 2009 – IGEL Technology, one of the world’s leading thin client vendors, today introduced a built-in Citrix® XenDesktop™ Appliance Mode for all of its Universal Desktops based on Windows XP Embedded. This new solution allows Windows XP Embedded users who are deploying virtual PCs with XenDesktop to get the ultimate [...]
Read More >>Coyote Point and vCenter bring load balancing to SMB
By Tarry Singh at 13 January, 2009, 10:27 am
At the low end, the Equalizer 350GX is an application traffic manager with 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports, priced at $6,495. The E450GX, priced at $10,195, is optimized for e-commerce environments and adds SSL offload/acceleration features capable of handling 8,500 transactions per second. At the high end, the 650GX ($14,395) includes all of the features of [...]
Read More >>Top 5 VMware Virtual Appliances
By Tarry Singh at 14 December, 2008, 2:41 pm
EWeek’s labs picked up some neat collection of VMware’s virtual appliances. Although I don’t seem to read anywhere what the criteria might have been, it is important to note that these appliances are a security/application centric collection, I haven’t been visiting the marketplace for some time so do go there and check out some stuff [...]
Read More >>Oracle enters Appliance market with Exadata!
By Tarry Singh at 25 September, 2008, 12:19 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — X has arrived and it’s an appliance.
Hyped and kept under wraps for months and promoted here with banners proclaiming, “The X is coming,” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company’s foray into hardware during a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld.
The result of three years of development with HP, Oracle revealed the Exadata product [...]
Secure Computing Delivers Security Gateway Virtual Appliances for VMware Environments
By Tarry Singh at 29 April, 2008, 2:08 pm
SAN JOSE, CA, Apr 29, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) — Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced it is working with VMware to provide customers with security gateway virtual appliances for organizations of all sizes. These security gateway appliances for VMware environments will provide customers with [...]
Read More >>Hifn to Showcase Secure Storage and Data Reduction Solutions at Microsoft Summit 08 in Vegas
By Tarry Singh at 29 April, 2008, 11:26 am
LOS GATOS, Calif., April 28, 2008 – Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, will feature its new Unified Storage Bundle, a complete go-to-market secure iSCSI solution for OEMs, the award-winning Swarm, an encrypted iSCSI SAN/NAS appliance and the Express DR data reduction accelerator cards at the Microsoft Management Summit 08, April [...]
Read More >>Thinsy Corporation Announces LiveSync support for Oracle VM Server 2.1.1
By Tarry Singh at 18 April, 2008, 10:18 am
LiveSync Peer-To-Peer storage technology enables Enterprise Gradefeatures such as High Availability Backup VM Server with AutomaticFailover and Live Migration.The EnSpeed LiveSync technology is also compatible with other standardLinux distributions such as RedHat 5.1 and CentOS 5.1. LiveSync is alsoincluded in EnSpeed VMM with LiveSync, stand-alone VM Server softwarethat installs on bare metal.
In addition, Thinsy [...]
Hifn to Showcase Secure iSCSI Appliances at FOSE 08
By Tarry Singh at 31 March, 2008, 12:39 pm
LOS GATOS, Calif., March 31, 2008 – Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, will showcase its Swarm™ secure iSCSI SAN appliances at FOSE 2008 Conference and Exhibition, April 1-3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Booth #1517N.
Hifn’s Swarm appliances are the only iSCSI storage appliances available with [...]
Marathon Technologies Launches World’s First Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software for Server Virtualization
By Tarry Singh at 24 March, 2008, 1:59 pm
Littleton, Mass., March 24, 2008 — Marathon Technologies Corporation announced everRun VM, the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. Based on the same everRun® automated availability software employed by over 1800 organizations, everRun VM prevents outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. The significance of this new software [...]
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