Sunday 14 March 2010
The P500H storage solution can provide users for dual active protection, high bandwidth cache mirroring, seamless management, multiple target nodes, high availability / load-balancing, and high performance. Qsan redundant controllers are designed on its own invented technology of active-active controller configuration, and it doesn’t compromise to the performance. P500H IOPS is up to 210K and the throughput is up to 1200MB/s. At drive-side, P500H supports both SAS and SATA II interfaces. With the green feature of disk auto spindown and advanced cooling, the whole system including P500H and expansion JBOD enclosures can achieve high power efficiency and save the overall drive power cost. By the characteristics of high availability, scalability, sustainability, and high IOPS, the 10GbE iSCSI redundant controller can be applied to SQL/Exchange storage, high efficient file backup, virtualization environment, cloud storage, and high end verticals.
This October, Qsan’s partners – Enhance Technology and Proware Technology will present the latest redundant 10GbE iSCSI storage solutions – 3160TG and EP-3164D-GAS3 which are integrated with Qsan’s P500H 10GbE iSCSI -SAS/SATA II redundant controllers.
According to Daniel Lin, Sales Director of Qsan Technology, Inc., “Qsan iSCSI RAID controllers have been proven and installed in various applications and environments. The new P500H redundant 10GbE iSCSI controller is designed for critical requirements, such as non-stop service, high reliability, scalability, sustainability, virtualization, and of course, with a reasonable price. It is not only for cloud storage/application but also high end verticals. We are proud and confident that P500H is the best price-performance solutions to our customers.” For further information, please contact Qsan, sales@Qsan.com.tw.
P500H Feature Highlights:
- Dual-active configuration
- Cache mirroring through high bandwidth channels
- Hardware iSCSI offload
- Flexible RAID group (RG) ownership management
- Management port seamless take-over
- Online FW upgrade, hot pluggable controller module for no system down time
- Up to 32 multiple target iSCSI nodes
- High availability, load balancing, fail-over
- Host access control, jumbo frame, iSCSI header/data digest
- Up to 128 sessions support
- QSnap writeable snapshot
- RAID 6, 60, N-way mirror, on-line volume migration, on-line roaming
- SATAII drive backward compatible
- SAS JBOD expansion
- Green disk auto spindown, advanced cooling
- Hot pluggable battery backup module
- SBB Compliant
P500H Performance per System:
- IOPS 210K
- Throughput 1200MB/s
About Enhance Technology, Inc.
Founded in 1997, Enhance Technology designs and manufactures high performance storage systems for digital content creation, medical imaging, security surveillance, post production, data archive and IT market places. Headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California with Asia branch in Taipei, Taiwan, Enhance Technology has become the world leader in designing and developing hybrid I/O storage solutions. For more information about Enhance Technology and the UltraStor™ RS Series, please visit www.enhance-tech.com.
About Proware Technology
Since 1994, Proware Technology Corp., a leader in the data storage marketplace, has been developing and supplying high availability, drive ready storage solutions for the channels and OEM customers in the Windows & open systems markets. Proware provides storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market. With a full range of RAID storage products, NAS Solutions & iSCSI Solutions, Proware offers complete solutions for all of your needs. Our products provide all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel. For more information about Proware Technology, please visit www.proware.com.tw.
About Qsan
Founded in 2004, QSAN technology Inc. is a company developing RAID controller focusing on iSCSI / IP SAN targeting at small and medium businesses worldwide. Qsan products are designed and positioned in the way to respond to the storage technology trend not only the latest standards (e.g. 10GbE iSCSI, SAS) but also customer requirements (e.g. business continuity). For more information, please visit www.Qsan.com.tw.
Cloud VPS,
Hosting.com, the first name in global managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is launching Cloud VPS, an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions. The new solution will provide customers with unprecedented elasticity and control of their VPS environments. Cloud VPS will be hypervisor-based, making the virtual machines independent from one another — a feature unavailable in most container-based VPS solutions.
Cloud VPS will provide customers with high availability, scalability and flexibility inherent to cloud infrastructures. Customers will have the ability to grow and easily migrate their Cloud VPS solutions to the more robust Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions offered by Hosting.com. The company selected the VMware vSphere software to build this new cloud infrastructure. Hosting.com is in the process of moving all existing VPS clients to the Cloud VPS infrastructure.
“Hosting.com made the decision to move away from a container-based VPS platform to provide more flexibility and control from our customers,” noted Matt Ferrari, Hosting.com Director of Infrastructure Services. “Customer feedback and requests for a more dynamic offering that could easily scale or be migrated directly lead to the development of Cloud VPS.”
The transition to a cloud infrastructure allows Hosting.com to provide Cloud VPS at a reduced cost than traditional VPS solutions and provide clients with additional resources. The base package for the prior .Net VPS solution ($89.00/month) from Hosting.com provided 512 MB RAM, 10 GB of Virtual Disk Space, and 400 GB of monthly transfer. For $80.00/month, Cloud VPS will provide the same amount of RAM, 30 GB of Virtual Disk Space and 500 GB of monthly transfer.
Cloud VPS hosting plans are available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux at a fixed, monthly cost and can be customized based on a customer’s unique needs for space, bandwidth, and data management tools. Each plan includes preinstalled software, including ASP.NET, Adobe ColdFusion, and SQL Server on Windows and PHP, Perl, and MySQL on Linux. Additionally, Cloud VPS plans feature daily backups, 24×7x365 expert technical support, and a 100% network uptime guarantee.
“Cloud VPS will introduce many companies to cloud hosting due to its performance, functionality and pricing,” commented Fred Strelzoff, Hosting.com Cloud Product Manager. “Cloud hosting has become a viable alternative to managed and dedicated hosting — similarly, we believe Cloud VPS will change the expectations of VPS consumers.”
Hosting.com has also changed the name of its Cloud Private solution to Cloud Dedicated to more accurately describe the solution provided to customers — a single-tenant, clustered hardware environment. Private solutions are available on both Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated.
About Hosting.com
Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.
Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and is opening a datacenter in Denver, CO in September 2009.
All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24×7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.
Xactium, has launched Cloud GRC, a suite for the Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform. Delivered via the cloud, Xactium’s Cloud GRC suite empowers organizations to rapidly implement consistent, efficient and sustainable processes for managing the lifecycle of corporate policies and objectives, analyzing and mitigating risks, and demonstrating compliance. XactiumCloud GRC is now available on the AppExchange at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
Managing the Challenges of Enterprise GRC achieving better control over complex, interconnected governance, risk and compliance activities is an increasingly challenging and important aspect of running an effective organization. To meet these demands, an enterprise GRC solution needs to tick a large number of boxes, including: scalability, robustness and security; support for managing complex business processes, powerful, collaborative reporting tools; a flexible, easy to manage infrastructure that can be adapted with ease to specific business requirements. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the AppExchange marketplace.
Electric Cloud(R) the leading provider of Software Production Management solutions, announced the extension of its offerings to the public cloud. For the first time, it is possible for software developers to automate and accelerate the software production process on physical, virtual or public cloud computing resources. The company’s ElectricCommander(R) software production automation solution now features an integration with the Amazon Web Services(TM) platform. This allows ElectricCommander to dynamically manage computing resources running in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), in addition to or instead of running on in-house resources. Further, Electric Cloud’s full product line is now validated to run entirely on the Amazon Web Services platform.
Electric Cloud has been helping its customers build private clouds using physical and virtual machine resources to automate, accelerate and analyze build and test processes for the purposes of reducing costs and shortening development cycles. Electric Cloud’s Software Production Management solutions were built from the ground up to support the world’s most complex build-test-deploy environments. Electric Cloud has routinely provisioned private compute clouds with hundreds of physical or virtual machines. This has given the company unique expertise in solving the scalability, manageability and security issues inherent in public cloud computing.
The annual awards program recognizes achievements in the development and implementation of innovative technologies. Winners were announced in ten categories, as well as the new PricewaterhouseCoopers Promise Awards, at a sold out ceremony attended by more than 350 industry professionals held on June 16th at the Copley Westin in Boston. Anand Rajaram of Pixily accepted the award. “We take pride in finding innovative ways to solve our customers’ problems (our easy workflow using pre-paid Scanvelopes or boxes, our adoption of the Cloud even before it was the next big thing, to name a couple), so it feels great to win the MITX Technology Innovation award in the Cloud Computing Category.
For the Cloud Computing Category, a panel of judges evaluated entries based on a defined set of criteria including: business solution, technical merit, scalability and innovation. Judges also considered security and energy efficiency. “This year’s award winners represent some of the most innovative thinkers in the world of technology. These companies and individuals help solve real-world challenges and help push the use and adoption of technology,” said Kiki Mills, executive director of MITX. MITX Technology Awards program is sponsored through the generous support of: Atom Group, DLA Piper, LEWIS PR, Mad*Pow, Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Technology Review. Creative partners also included: Cramer, LVI Print Optimization and massAV.
Pixily is an interactive document management service that helps consumers and small businesses be more organized and efficient. For consumers, Pixily is a digital organization assistant that quickly organizes paper and electronic materials online so information can be found in an instant, whenever and wherever it is needed. Pixily is also an affordable on-demand document management service for businesses that saves organizations time and money and enables them to be more environmentally friendly. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Pixily was founded in 2007.
We were in between a rock and a hard place,” said Dennis Reedy, a system architect and advisor for ARL supporting contractor Altus Engineering, speaking at the JavaOne conference held earlier this month in San Francisco. The lab wanted to road-test the next version of its much-awaited modeling and simulation system, The Modular Unix-based Vulnerability Estimation Suite (MUVES). We need to field and validate the system, test the scalability, test the ability for the system to fail over. The trouble was that ARL had no servers to spare. What capacity that would be available could only be used during the off-hours, such as in the middle of the night or during weekends.
Instead, the lab uploaded the software to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), automating the build and test process through an open-source cloud management service called Elastic Grid. The software being tested is version three of MUVES, a complete rewrite of a general use modeling and simulation application that ARL has used for the past 20 years. The agency uses this software to measure how much damage bullets, bombs and other projectiles can do to vehicles, among other uses. Bowers had chalked this sluggish performance up to how the software handles persistence, specifically the large amount of material it keeps in working memory. All totaled, about 100 analysts use the software on their workstations on a regular basis.
Amitive Unity 5.0, offered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and aimed at enabling “community SCM for both large and small companies that outsource manufacturing.
Amitive said that Unity 5.0 introduces architectural updates to let communities of supply chain owners, customers and supply partners leverage the “true value of cloud computing” in any public or private cloud environment. Supply chain solution provider Amitive has delivered what it is calling the industry’s first supply chain management (SCM) solution “delivered in the cloud,” Amitive Unity 5.0, offered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and aimed at enabling “community SCM for both large and small companies that outsource manufacturing.” This latest version provides further value by allowing Amitive’s customers to take advantage of critical advancements in the scalability, security and reliability of today’s more mature cloud environment.
Amitive is a catalyst enabling us to team with our retail customers to centralize information, bridge process gaps and create real-time, cross-community visibility,” Pichler said. “With this model, we can drive the highly efficient product velocity of our global business network to serve our customers better than our competitors. We built Amitive Unity 5.0 to fully leverage the two most powerful tenants of true cloud computing,” said Amar Singh, CEO of Amitive. “First, companies should not have to pay for ‘just-in-case’ computing power in advance, and secondly, they should not be pinned down to one cloud environment. Cloud is all about dynamic choice and scalability, and Amitive Unity 5.0 is the only SCM software that lives up to the true cloud computing moniker.
Instead of making an upfront investment for perpetual licenses, the new monthly licensing model allows SaaS ISVs to scale their investment in Oracle technology with their company growth and end-user demand. Committed to providing the leading technology platform for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing partners, Oracle today launched a new commercial licensing model that enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to purchase license and support for components of the Oracle Platform for SaaS on a monthly basis.
The new monthly option, called SaaS for ISVs, is available to any ISV interested in delivering a SaaS application in a one-to-many commercial deployment on Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Application Server. The Leading Platform for SaaS and Cloud-Based Services The Oracle Platform for SaaS includes Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle VM, and is a comprehensive, open and integrated set of technologies that allows ISVs to build, deploy and manage SaaS and cloud-based applications. This software platform uses Oracle Grid Computing technologies to enable ISVs to deliver SaaS and cloud-based services to multiple enterprise customers, while fully delivering on their requirements of scalability, high performance, high availability, integration, security and customization. ISVs, hosting service providers and system integrators also receive business and technology support via a designated Oracle SaaS Program for partners.
“Oracle has been active in the SaaS market for several years, selling our own SaaS offerings and working closely with an extensive ecosystem of SaaS partners - including ISVs, SIs and Managed Hosting Partners,” said Judson Althoff, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Oracle. “With the new monthly licensing model, not only can ISVs leverage the leading platform for SaaS, they can also scale their investment to meet the evolving demands of their business. The combined Oracle Platform for SaaS and licensing options deliver the power and flexibility ISVs need to compete and win in today’s global SaaS marketplace.”
AWS Aims New Programs at Educators, Researchers, and Students
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has announced AWS in Education, a set of programs that enable the academic community to leverage the benefits of Amazon Web Services for teaching and research.
With AWS in Education, the company noted, educators, academic researchers, and students worldwide can obtain free usage credits to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors and explore new projects - tasks that previously would have required expensive investments in infrastructure. AWS in Education also provides self-directed learning resources on cloud computing for students.
“The flexibility and instant scalability of the AWS cloud have made it a popular environment for teaching courses and tackling research projects in basic programming, application development, distributed computing, and more,” said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services. “Whether giving students experience in cloud computing or assisting in sophisticated research, AWS in Education makes it easy to get going.”
To assist educators in bringing the cloud to the classroom, AWS is offering grants of $100 per student for free usage of AWS infrastructure services in eligible courses at accredited universities. Faculty can apply for these grants via a simple online form and provide their students with hands-on access to the same infrastructure services used by software developers and IT staffs around the world.
“In Fall 2008, we moved Harvard’s 300-student introductory Computer Science course into the cloud via Amazon EC2,” said David J. Malan, Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University. “Our goals were both technical and pedagogical. As Computer Scientists, we wanted full control over our course’s infrastructure so that we could install software at will and respond to problems at any hour. As teachers, we wanted easier access to our students’ work as well as the ability to grow and shrink our infrastructure as problem sets’ computational requirements demanded. Moreover, because of AWS we were able to integrate into the course’s own syllabus discussion of scalability, virtualization, multi-core processing, and cloud computing itself. What better way to teach topics like those than to have students actually experience them.”
“Using AWS for our Web 2.0 Application Development courses has been a phenomenal resource,” said Armando Fox, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley. “Administration was so easy that students were able to get their projects deployed quickly, and venture capitalists attending the final project demos were impressed at the level of polish and creativity that a small student team could produce in just a few weeks.”
Information on Amazon Web Services and applications for grants for usage credit:
http://aws.amazon.com/education
