FOCUS NEWS TECHNOLOGY
Issue 13, Dec 10/Jan 11
EMC ENTERS DATABASE APPLIANCE MARKET
Little more than three months after it bought database software company Greenplum, EMC entered the database appliance business with its first database machine with plans to go after Oracle’s, IBM’s and Teradata’s market share.
Key competitive points of the new EMC Greenplum
Data Computing Appliance
are data loading speed and the Greenplum- developed shared-nothing MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture, said Ben Werther, director of product strategy at EMC’s
POWER
Emerge Alliance, an industry organization working to accelerate adoption of safe
direct-current
power distribution standards in commercial buildings, has formed a new technical standard committee to develop a 380-volt DC power standard for electrical systems in data centers.
Eaton launched a UPS product it says offers more streamlined shipping and installation processes. The new BladeUPS Pre-assembled is scalable in a modular fashion – from 12kW to 60kW (N+1) – in a single 19-inch rack. The smallest pre-assembled system, however, consists of two 12kW modules. The largest 60kW system contains six modules.
SWITCHES
Brocade has launched a new switch module and converged network adapter (CNA), both designed for IBM BladeCenter server environments. The 10GbE switch module, Brocade 8470, is a fully embedded converged switch with both data center bridging and fibre channel ports, which enables customers to consolidate IP and fibre channel i/o resources into a single switch.
Network vendor Force10 announced a new top-of-rack
new data computing products division. The appliance
consists of standard x86
servers with direct-attached storage and 10GbE network switches and does not have any unusual power or cooling requirements on the data center floor. “You would plan it just like any other standard rack of x86 gear,” Werther said.
Deployments can scale from a basic half-rack configuration up to 24 full racks (192 cores per rack) for up to five petabytes of capacity.
Ethernet switch and 40GbE line card for its ExaScale virtualized core switch/router. Together, the products enable an end-to-end 40GbE edge-to-core network solution. The new S-Series S4810 10/40GbE top-of-rack switch for the network edge is purpose- built for high-bandwidth, low- latency applications.
EMC’s Greenplum data computing appliance
The entry-level half-rack system costs US$1m and provides 18TB uncompressed with an uncompressed-to-compressed ratio of 4:1.
pre-terminated multi-fiber push- on fiber optical connectors.
SERVERS
Apple is to stop selling its Xserve servers at the end of January but will continue support for Xserve customers with service parts for warranty and out-of-warranty service. Systems bought before 31 January will have a standard one-year warranty and customers will have the option to extend technical support and hardware service coverage.
Force10 ExaScale switch/router
Blade released a switch aimed at the data center market that can move more than a terabit per second in a 1U rack base, with a 40Gb uplink. Blade VP and general manager for EMEA Charles Ferland says the RackSwitch
G8264 will cost
US$350 per 10Gb port, making the technology more affordable.
CABLING
ADC Krone has a new plug- and-play fiber portfolio aimed at the simplification of network operations. The TrueNet Plug- and-Play fiber solution offers high-density connections using
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IBM launched two new versions of its CloudBurst full-stack private cloud appliance – one built on
IBM’s carrying x86 servers
called System x, and the other based on its recent Power servers,
the new
Power7 processors. The new software, IBM Service Delivery Manager, is deployed as a set of virtual images to enable cloud- based service delivery for x86 and Power-based systems.
MAINFRAMES
Unisys unveiled two models of its ClearPath mainframes and a new mainframe virtualization technology. The company added new mid-range Intel-based models to ClearPath Libra and Dorado mainframe families – Libra 4100 series and Dorado 4100 series.
MODULARITY
Data center design, build and management firm Sentrum has unveiled a modular data center design featuring standard-capacity data suites, each with a dedicated power and cooling infrastructure. The firm will deliver its Scalable Data Suites based on power capacity, each providing 720kW of usable power.
SOFTWARE
Future Facilities, provider of data center
infrastructure simulation
software, released a version of its suite of computational fluid dynamics tools, 6SigmaDC. The sixth version of the suite includes expanded modeling capabilities and capacity for integration with data center infrastructure management systems.
nlyte Software secured a patent for the technology that its products use to automate allocation of servers to racks within the data center. The
company’s auto-allocation
technology uses rules-based algorithms to search through the data center and find the optimal location for a new server and peripherals in terms of available power and cooling resources, space and network connections.
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