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Cloud Computing News -3PAR Announces VMware vStorage Integration With 3PAR Space-Saving Technologies
Jul 13th
Jul 13, 2010 08:00 ET
3PAR’s Plug-In for VMware® VAAI, Support for VMware vSphereTM 4.1 Strengthen Foundation for the Cloud
FREMONT, CA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) – 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today full support for VMware vSphere™ 4.1 and the development of a new 3PAR plug-in for VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). Already a leader in providing storage for cloud computing environments, 3PAR is working with VMware to support VAAI in order to deliver advanced server and storage virtualization capabilities to improve virtual infrastructure performance, agility, and scalability for public and private cloud datacenters.
“In building a private cloud, we learned first-hand just how critical it is to deploy VMware vSphere™ on top of an intelligent storage infrastructure that is designed to support server virtualization,” said Jerry Hook, Senior Manager at University of Tennessee Medical Center. “This is exactly what 3PAR delivered, and with the new 3PAR Plug-In for VAAI and integration with VMware vSphere 4.1, we anticipate achieving even higher levels of performance, flexibility and efficiency in our virtual datacenter.”
The new 3PAR plug-in supports three features of VAAI: Hardware Assisted Locking, Block Zero and Full Copy. The 3PAR Plug-in for VAAI and support for VMware vSphere 4.1 deliver the following benefits, targeted for large-scale enterprise and cloud datacenters:
–Greater scalability by preventing VMs from competing for the same resources. Hardware Assisted Locking reduces SCSI reservation contention that can impact performance in large environments. Reducing conflicting resource requests removes a barrier to virtual machine (VM) performance to enable greater VM density and scalability. 3PAR’s unique implementation of Hardware Assisted Locking takes advantage of the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to handle data comparisons in silicon with significantly higher performance and throughput, which is especially beneficial in large-scale VMware vSphere deployments.
–Increased performance and efficiency by eliminating repetitive write commands. Block Zero offloads large, block-level write operations of zeros to storage hardware, thus reducing server workload. In addition, with the integration of zero-detection capability built into the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC, in combination with 3PAR Thin Persistence software, provisioning is further accelerated while capacity consumption is reduced since zeros are prevented from being written to physical storage.
–Enhanced agility with faster VM cloning and VMware Storage vMotion™. Full Copy increases agility by halving the amount of time required to perform common copy operations like virtual machine cloning and storage workload migrations using VMware Storage vMotion™. This is made possible by allowing the storage hardware to transparently manage large data movements, and by minimizing host, network, and disk I/O activity. With the integration of the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC and 3PAR Thin Persistence software, built-in zero-detection capabilities further speed cloning and storage workload migrations while also delivering a capacity savings benefit.
–New quality of service capabilities via support for VMware Storage I/O Controls (SIOC). VMware’s SIOC implements new quality-of-service controls that automatically ensure that the most important virtual machines receive the desired I/O resources, even in times of congestion. 3PAR Utility Storage supports SIOC to ensure consistent performance levels across all VMs.
“VMware vSphere™ 4.1 represents the next evolution in our industry-leading platform,” says Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “As part of this release, we are excited to incorporate new storage capabilities and to offer integration opportunities that allow storage partners like 3PAR to elevate the performance, reliability, and scalability of their virtual infrastructures to lay the foundation for cloud computing.”
“Whether internally owned or managed by a cloud service provider, we believe that cloud-based infrastructures enable companies of all sizes to dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses, maintain control over service levels, and increase flexibility,” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “We are excited to work with VMware under its VAAI initiative to provide joint customers with advanced capabilities to improve performance, efficiency, and agility to boost VMware vSphere™ ROI in enterprise and cloud datacenters.”
3PAR support for VMware vSphere 4.1 is available today and includes the 3PAR InForm® Operating System, 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware®, and the 3PAR Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter™ Server. The 3PAR Plug-In for VMware® VAAI will be available in September and is provided at no additional charge.
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient and to eliminate the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.
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EMC to Acquire Greenplum – Data warehousing technology provider
Jul 7th
Disruptive Data Warehousing Technology Enables New Era of “Big Data” Clouds and Self-Service Analytics
HOPKINTON, Mass., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.
Today, new forms of data — massive amounts of it — are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks, the Web, a flood of consumer content, surveillance systems, sensors and the like. In a recent report, IDC predicted that over the next 10 years the amount of digital data created annually will grow 44 fold. Companies are increasingly turning to new architectures and new tools to help make sense of this “big data” phenomenon.
Regarded by industry experts as a visionary leader, Greenplum utilizes a “shared-nothing” massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that has been designed from the ground up for analytical processing using virtualized x86 infrastructure. Greenplum is capable of delivering 10 to 100 times the performance of traditional database software at a dramatically lower cost. Data-driven businesses around the world, including NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile and Fox Interactive Media have adopted Greenplum for sophisticated, high-performance data analytics.
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said, “The data warehousing world is about to change. Greenplum’s massively-parallel, scale-out architecture, along with its self-service consumption model, has enabled it to separate itself from the incumbent players and emerge as the leader in this industry shift toward ‘big data’ analytics. Greenplum’s market-leading technology combined with EMC’s virtualized Private Cloud infrastructure provides customers, today, with a best-of-breed solution for tomorrow’s ‘big-data’ challenges.”
Bill Cook, Greenplum CEO, said, “EMC and Greenplum bring extraordinary potential to customers at the intersection of ‘big data’ and sophisticated analytics. As technology and business partners, EMC and Greenplum witness daily the enthusiasm with which customers embrace how together we impact their businesses in very tangible, positive and meaningful ways. The technology speaks for itself. What energizes us most now is EMC’s ability to open new doors of opportunity and accelerate delivery of our joint vision for the future.”
Scott McNealy, executive advisor to Greenplum, said, “EMC’s strength in the enterprise, and Greenplum’s push to fully transform data warehousing and business analytics, makes for a perfect fit. Together they are brilliantly bringing together the power of cloud computing, virtualization, and social collaboration to help customers as they venture into the next phase of computing and business analytics.” More >
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SOA Software Announces Enterprise and Cloud Service Federation
Jun 8th
Service Manager 6.0 Delivers Enterprise and Cloud Services Virtualization, Management and Mediation
LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – June 8, 2010) – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced its award winning Service Manager product version 6.0. Service Manager 6.0 provides advanced virtualization, management, security, monitoring and mediation capabilities for SOA and Cloud Service, implemented using a state-of-the-art OSGi-based architecture. SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model. SOA Software products allow customers to confidently share services between commercial SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, as well as Red Hat and other open source providers. Service Manager is the industry’s leading SOA Management and security product. It delivers comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management. Service Manager implements and enforces policies, generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics used to enable a closed-loop process for auditing and making sure policies are being correctly enforced.
Service Manager 6.0 delivers:
- Policy-based Mediation for integration with multiple platforms: Policy sharing and enforcement between commercial platforms becomes easier with Service Manager. Service Manager enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport.
- Extensible binding framework: Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease.
- Security Federation: Service Manager supports advanced security federation standards, providing enterprise-class token, authorization, and PKI capabilities for SOA and Cloud Services.
- Open Architecture: Service Manager leverages an OSGi-based architecture providing a flexible, reliable, and high-performance solution for the most demanding enterprise environments.
“Enterprise Services initiatives are about more than just SOAP Web services, they need to include REST, RSS, Atom and other web 2.0 and emerging technologies, such as Cloud Computing,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. ”Service Manager 6.0 provides an extensible operational governance solution that allows customers to implement and enforce uniform policies across a wide array of service types, message exchange patterns, and transports, helping ensure the security and availability of critical assets across a wide range of business initiatives.”
Policy-based Mediation between SOA Platforms
Service Manager 6.0 enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation with SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, and Oracle to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport. It provides support for a range of policies compliant with WS-Policy including:
- WS-Security Policy
- WS-Addressing Policy
- WS-Auditing Policy
- WS-TransactionTracking Policy
- WS-HTTPSecurity Policy
In addition to the advanced support for policy enforcement and implementation, Service Manager 6.0 provides dynamic policy mediation, accepting messages for virtual services enforcing one policy, and send messages to physical services implementing different policies. This provides some sophisticated security token mediation capabilities, encryption and decryption, and signature verification and signing. Additionally, Service Manager 6.0 provides declarative binding and message exchange pattern mediation through its built-in JSR-208 JBI bus.
Extensible binding framework
Enterprise services are increasingly developing beyond SOAP Web services, REST is increasingly important, along with many other binding types. Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa.
Security Federation
Service Manager 6.0 provides a powerful security federation solution with a security token server for authentication and token exchange, an authorization server for distributed SOA and Cloud services authorization policy enforcement, and a built-in Certificate Authority and Public Key Infrastructure solution allowing for public/private key-pair generation, management and automated distribution. Amongst other things, Service Manager 6.0 includes:
- A SAML authority for the generation and signing of SAML assertions, and comprehensive SAML processing and validation capabilities.
- A WS-Trust service for authentication and token exchange enabling sophisticated security token mediation use-cases such as exchanging username/password tokens for SAML assertions or X.509 certificates.
- An XACML service for processing authorization requests against a local authorization policy store or via distribution to most common identity and access management systems.
- WS-SecureConversation support for high-performance, session-based secure SOA and Cloud service consumption.
OSGi-based
Service Manager 6.0 is based on the OSGi specification delivering exceptional operational readiness with automated online update capabilities, easy extensibility and proven performance and scalability for the world’s most demanding enterprise and cloud services environments.
Pricing and Availability
Available in Q2 2010, Service Manager 6.0 starts at $50k USD.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Service Governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services. Our SOA Software Atmosphere Products are built using our Portfolio Manager™, Repository Manager™, Policy Manager™, and Service Manager™. They form a unified SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA™ providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Atmosphere, Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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NASA and Japan Announce Cloud Computing Collaboration
Jun 7th
WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA and Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) have announced plans to explore interoperability opportunities between NASA’s Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and Japan’s NII Cloud Computing Platform.
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Chris C. Kemp, NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology, launched this effort on June 3 with a live demonstration of interoperability between NASA Nebula and the NII’s Cloud at the NII annual Open House event in Tokyo, Japan. The Nebula and NII Cloud infrastructures jointly served publicly-available selections of Mars Orbiter data sets to a web application.
This event was a first step in NASA’s efforts to demonstrate how cloud standards can facilitate interoperability and data portability for the benefit of the international science community.
“By demonstrating how cloud interoperability can facilitate international collaboration and seamless global access to public data, NASA hopes to accelerate the development of cloud standards and the adoption of cloud infrastructure services by the scientific community,” said Kemp.
NASA Nebula and NII’s Cloud are built entirely of open-source components and both employ open-data application programming interfaces. NASA and NII will collaborate on open source reference implementations of interoperable cloud services.
“The interoperability between an NII Cloud and the NASA Nebula Cloud is a combined effort toward the creation of an International academic-information infrastructure, which is essential in promoting the global cooperation of research and education,” said Masao Sakauchi, NII’s director general. “The interoperability of this cloud infrastructure will make it possible to create new academic activities by enabling the software and content to be shared amongst researchers, faculties, and students worldwide.”
NASA Nebula is a Cloud Computing service developed by the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., that provides high performance computing, network, and data storage services to NASA scientists and researchers. Nebula allows NASA to share and process large scientific data sets and was one of three flagship projects highlighted in NASA’s Open Government Directive.
Japan’s NII Cloud provides cloud platform services to Japan’s academic and research community. Like Nebula, the NII cloud is developed using open source technologies. By focusing on partnerships and other joint efforts with universities and research institutions throughout Japan, as well as industries and civilian organizations, NII creates state-of-the-art information infrastructure to support education within Japan’s broader academic and research community.
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