At the event Dell Storage Forum, Dell has introduced new solutions based on the architecture in Fluid Dat. Among these, a demonstration of 16Gbps Fiber Channel to Dell for Complement. Dell showed the compatibility between a Dell SAN Complement Storage Center with a Brocade 6510 Fiber Channel switches to 16Gbps and 16Gbps in 1860 Brocade Fabric Adapter. This fall will usher in a bid to 16Gbps Fiber Channel.
Equal Logic adds FS7500 features network-attached storage (NAS) product line Equal Logic. Dell Equal Logic FS7500 uses the Scalable File System, a high performance clustered file system owner of Dell. Unlike other unified storage solutions, with FS7500 there is no limits – 8, 16 or 50TB – size of file storage. A single portion of Equal Logic FS7500 can scale up to 510TB (raw capacity).
MD3600f Power Vault storage arrays offer 8 Gbps Fiber Channel while maintaining the same hardware and software line array Power Vault MD32 × 0 / 36 × 0. With a total of eight 8 Gbps Fiber Channel ports, customers can have up to four attached servers in a redundant without the need for a switch, or server 64 in case of using a switch. The options include snapshot of data protection, virtual disk copy and remote replication services.
New Venue for New Microsoft Italy and philosophy. The flexible working employee will lead to an increase in business of 50% over the next four years. In Peachier, Borromeo, an American-style campus.
“It’s a place for innovation.” These are the words of Peter Scott Jovane, CEO of Microsoft Italy, to present the new headquarters, a very American style campus innovation that not only sums up a new working philosophy but also a burning concern for the environment.
In short, in the town of Peschiera Borromeo, the total area of the campus is 150,000 square meters with 50,000 square meters of offices, open spaces and meeting rooms, 40,000 square meters of parking (underground), 60,000 sq m park with soccer fields, trail running, gym, kindergarten, restaurants and supermarket. “A campus where space around the work facilitates the aggregation, and innovation to meet” specific Jovane.
At the base of a new philosophy of work, more flexible, able to combine aspects of work and private life. “Our goal has always been about people and their sense of responsibility – precise Jovane -. We give employees flexibility in managing the work, both coming in the office or working remotely from home or at the client. For this reason, the new office space has been organized so that there is no more desk sets, but there are areas of work and meeting employees and customers will be able to use based on the work to be done. “
The year of transition from Symbian to Windows 7 Phone is more troubled than expected. This is what happens to the title of vertical drop in the stock market Nokia.
Nokia has cut the forecast Devices & services activities for the second quarter of 2011 and, although the CEO Stephen Elop said that this is a transition year for the transition from Symbian Phone to Windows 7, the title falls in the stock market. At 14.30, after the profit warning, the title retreated by 10%.
The profit warning says that revenues from business activities and services in the quarter will be well below the fork of 6.1000000000 to 6.6000000000 € previously expected. CEO Stephen Elope has witnessed the collapse of 37% of the value of the stock of Nokia in just eight months after his appointment. The previous CEO had seen the title to lose 55% in four years. There is therefore acceleration in the disaffection with the title of Nokia.
The first Windows 7 Phone from Nokia (in fact a Smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5, code name Mango) will arrive by Christmas. But let’s see what they think the analyst firm. CCS Insight believes that the critical point will be in 2012 when the new strategy (for the Symbian abandon WP7) will be implemented. Goldman Sachs, Sanford C Bernstein & Co. and the Nordea Bank ABtagliano rating for the title of Nokia. Nokia in the Smartphone market has halved its market share since 2007, rising from 50.8% to 25.5% in first quarter 2011 (source: Gartner). According to Exane BNP Paribas is the effects of “ice water” have come to terms (migration) without the landlord, and that is without saying what would happen if Windows Phone will not sell as expected.
The Ethernet switch market shows a decline in sales despite the increase in ports shipped. The boom of the 10 GbE
Cisco Systems is facing growing pressure from HP and Juniper Networks solutions in the Ethernet switching market, according to Canalys research, and the Dell’Oro Group, showed a decline in the first quarter of this year. In two separate reports both companies expect that negative pressures are developed in the second quarter and for the rest of 2011.
The overall decline in the market comes from the price competition between these companies: total sales of ports increased by 2.5 percent, while the end-user revenue fell by 12.3 percent to $ 4.6 billion. On the other hand, the growth segment of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet will continue strong. According to Golden are the highlights of the top of rack switch 10 Gigabit Ethernet in consonance of the server migration to 10 GbE connections.
According to Canalys 10 GbE segment showed 70 per cent growth in sales in the quarter, while the 1-GbE ports grew by 12.4 percent. The field of competition shifts to the data center networks, while vendors offer new strategies for the fabric to simplify the architecture.
The general data Dell’Oro state revenue growth of 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010. Canalys for the first quarter of 2011, revenues decreased by 8, 8 percent.
The mobile network operators are turning to mobile satellite service provider cloud
In mature markets like Europe or North America, telecom operators are turning to mobile satellite service provider cloud. According to supply’s analysis will occur in parallel with a shift from a flat pricing for users of smart phones to data plans at different levels of price and performance. The result will be a global increase in sales of data services by 9 percent a year between now and 2015. The turnover will increase from 218 billion dollars in 2010 to 338 billion in 2015. The data account for 30 percent of the revenue from the wireless traffic.
In the short term offers a ladder of different levels will allow operators to encourage the use of data at the user’s wireless broadband and media at the same time get more revenues from users who make more use of network resources. But in the long term this will allow carriers to also become powerful actors in the market of cloud computing and storage on the cloud. According to supply the growth of cloud initially will come from mobile consumers who have less stringent requirements of companies.
Services cloud Apple or Amazon Cloud Drive in the U.S. is the first steps of a process that will put the user at the center of a network of devices to access data and applications provided by cloud services.
In April Google Android touches 36.4 per cent and 26 per cent share of IOS. Blackberry OS to 25.7 percent and Windows Mobile still slips.
The Android mobile operating system and the rival iOS have gained market share in April once again at the expense of Blackberry and Windows. The data is from Co score and cover the U.S. market where Android Smartphone has a market share of 36.4 percent (more than 2 percent on March) and IOS has reached a 26 percent clean. The third place is Blackberry OS with 25.7 percent (down 27 percent compared to March). Blackberry was just over 33 percent in November.
Use it as the domain hardware manufacturers not tied to a single operating system, led by Samsung (24.5 percent), LG (20.9 percent) and Motorola (15.6 percent). In the scene stands a further slide in market share of Windows Mobile from 8 percent in January to 6.7 percent in April.
While Microsoft is expecting to market the fruits of its alliance with Nokia, Apple, who claims to have sold 100 million iPhone by July 2007, offers five versions of IOS.
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