Citrix and NetApp have jointly developed a software and hardware package optimised for Citrix's ShareFile with StorageZones.
ShareFile with StorageZones is Citrix's enterprise 'dropbox' alternative and allows CIOs to place data in the organisation's own data center as opposed to in the cloud.
Enterprises can now meet data compliance and users can still access their documents and images from anywhere at any time.
By collaborating, Citrix and NetApp will help enterprises simplify and accelerate on-premise, data sharing and storage deployments.
The joint approach ensures that StorageZones works with NetApp's FAS and V-Series storage systems running its clustered Data ONTAP software.
This allows you to take advantage of features such as de-duplication and compression to decrease the amount of storage needed to host employee content.
NetApp's Snapshot technology can be used to backup and recover the data.
This should come as good news as businesses grapple to contain data in the enterprise yet make it freely available to those needing access.
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Wednesday 14 November 2012
Microsoft Goes Big Compute with Azure
Microsoft has made enhancements to Windows Azure to allow customers to run applications that require Big Compute.
This is a capability many cloud providers are now offering in the wake of Big Data, such as Rackspace with Hadoop.
In order to demonstrate the capabilities Microsoft ran a LINPACK benchmark resulting in a 151.3 Tflops on 8,065 cores with 90,2 efficiency, and Microsoft therefore submitted the data to be included in the Top 500 of the world’s largest supercomputers.
The capabilities include:
Hardware for Big Compute, which is currently in a private preview and is expected to become available in 2013. Microsoft is planning to offer 2 configurations, a 8 core/60GB of RAM and a 16 core/120GB of RAM configuration, running on top of machines with the following specifications:
Dual Intel Sandybridge processors at 2.6 GHz
DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
10 GigE network for storage and internet access
InfiniBand (IB) 40 Gbps network with RDMA
Microsoft HPC Pack 2012, allows customers to run workloads on Windows Azure, on-premise or both in a hybrid scenario. The 2012 version will add support for Windows Server 2012, VPN integration for access to on-premises resources, job execution control for dependencies, job scheduling policies for memory and cores, monitoring tools and utilities and is expected to be released in December this year.
This is a capability many cloud providers are now offering in the wake of Big Data, such as Rackspace with Hadoop.
In order to demonstrate the capabilities Microsoft ran a LINPACK benchmark resulting in a 151.3 Tflops on 8,065 cores with 90,2 efficiency, and Microsoft therefore submitted the data to be included in the Top 500 of the world’s largest supercomputers.
The capabilities include:
Hardware for Big Compute, which is currently in a private preview and is expected to become available in 2013. Microsoft is planning to offer 2 configurations, a 8 core/60GB of RAM and a 16 core/120GB of RAM configuration, running on top of machines with the following specifications:
Dual Intel Sandybridge processors at 2.6 GHz
DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
10 GigE network for storage and internet access
InfiniBand (IB) 40 Gbps network with RDMA
Microsoft HPC Pack 2012, allows customers to run workloads on Windows Azure, on-premise or both in a hybrid scenario. The 2012 version will add support for Windows Server 2012, VPN integration for access to on-premises resources, job execution control for dependencies, job scheduling policies for memory and cores, monitoring tools and utilities and is expected to be released in December this year.
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