“The Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance is an ideal solution for enterprise customers who need to consolidate databases; it delivers the benefit of the cloud while keeping your data in-house,” said Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP and founder of Pragmatic Works Software. “This is the solution that many companies have been looking for.”
That gives Bussmann “end to end control of the device. Because we have executive dashboards out there that maintain offline customer data. So for confidentiality reasons, we have to have full control. It’s a really bad reputational risk in certain countries,” he said.
SAME DEUTZ-FAHR ruled out a bandwidth upgrade because it would only partially solve the company’s performance challenges, and opted instead for a WAN optimization solution. After a rigorous review of the alternatives in the market, the company chose to test the Riverbed WAN optimization solution.
Announced earlier in 2011, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will also implement Blue Gene/Q to stoke economic growth and improve U.S. competitiveness for such challenges as designing electric car batteries, understanding climate change and exploring the evolution of the universe. The 10-petaflop system, named “Mira”, will provide a strong science and technology engine that will fuel national innovation.
HP and Microsoft will also share engineering resources to collaborate to deploy, support and enhance the joint solutions. Initial availability is expected this month in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. The most recent cloud pairing is also two years after the two tech big dogs teamed up for a cloud computing stack.
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