The EMC VNX7500 is powered by the latest multi-core Intel Xeon processor 5600 series and delivers HPC customers the option to leverage enterprise Flash drives and the FAST Suite, where Flash can be efficiently used as both a high performance storage tier and as a caching tier. Additionally, a dual VNX7500/single rack solution that can deliver up to 16GB/s sustained read performance and has the flexibility to support up to 1.6PBs—is ideal for customers looking for a high density solution, or with large amounts of data. The sheer throughput that the VNX7500 delivers to HPC customers using Lustre is ideal for environments where a high, single stream of performance is required—most often in universities and laboratories, core IT applications for, life sciences and supercomputing environments.

EMC will be demonstrating a proof-of-concept that includes the VNX7500 and a Terascala Integrated Storage Information System (TISIS™) appliance in a Lustre environment in the EMC Isilon booth (#2609) and Intel booth (#2121) at SC11.

Reference:
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20111110-02.htm

DCA modules enable enterprises to completely change how they think about scaling by providing the ability to start small and expand the appliance in more flexible and cost-effective quarter-rack increments based on processing performance or storage capacity needs.  In addition to mixing and matching Greenplum Database and Greenplum HD (Hadoop) modules, enterprises can also bring all their BI applications and ELT tools directly into the cluster, in the same DCA, through the use of new Greenplum Data Integration Accelerator modules. The result is a unified Big Data platform combining structured and unstructured data and applications in a single infrastructure that is also monitored, managed and supported by EMC.

Today, enterprises are seeking to make better use of their data warehouses for advanced analytics, and this trend will accelerate as organizations strive to move from running business intelligence point solutions to deploying comprehensive analytics enterprise-wide. At the same time, enterprises are placing greater importance on integrating and analyzing their accumulation of their unstructured and semi-structured data.  But as data warehouses get bigger, enterprises are facing scalability, performance degradation and management complexity, and are seeking ways to enable more concurrent users to access the data for business applications.

Four Greenplum Data Computing Appliance modules are available today:

• The Greenplum Database Module is a purpose-built, highly scalable data-warehousing appliance module that architecturally integrates database, computing, storage and network into an enterprise-class, easy-to-implement system. It is the industry leader in price and performance.

• The Greenplum Database High Capacity Module is designed to host multi-petabytes of data without surging power consumption, increasing costs or mushrooming space. For businesses that require detailed analysis of extremely large amounts of data or those looking for a longer term archive, this high-capacity version offers the lowest cost-per-unit data warehouse.

• The Greenplum HD Module is the world’s first high-performance data co-processing Hadoop appliance module. It marries Hadoop with the Greenplum Database, allowing true co-processing of both structured and unstructured data within a single, seamless solution.

• The Greenplum Data Integration Accelerator (DIA) Module hosts partner analytics applications and places them directly on the same high performance, low latency interconnect as the other appliance modules. This enables market-leading data loading performance in a parallel and scalable model, to shorten batch loads or implement micro-batch loading.

Enterprises can start with a single, primary rack, which includes a single standard or high-capacity Greenplum Database quarter-rack module and room for three additional modules, as well as two master servers that are responsible for authentication, optimizing the query, balancing the workload among the different segment servers, managing the fault tolerant mechanism of data and other tasks for the cluster. Enterprises may expand the appliance in quarter-rack increments using Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD or Greenplum DIA modules in any order and amount, up to six racks total as their demand for processing capacity grows. All modules are linked via a redundant, high-performance, low-latency interconnect.

This new release of the Greenplum DCA also includes increased high availability and simple integration with EMC’s market-leading solutions for data protection and disaster recovery. High availability is addressed via automated master-node fail-over and the Greenplum Database High Availability Group, enabling each full-rack DCA to sustain up to four server failures, one in each HA Group, nearly doubling the high availability rate. It also integrates with industry-leading EMC Data Domain® deduplication and backup technology from high speed backup and restore and wide area disaster recovery. The Greenplum DCA SAN Mirror Solution uses EMC Symmetrix® VMAX™, TimeFinder®/Snap and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF®) for advanced storage and data replication between two sites in synchronous mode.

Reference:
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110921-02.htm

EMC’s facility in Durham is the latest facility in the company’s global network of COEs, which are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland, and Russia.  The Centers of Excellence perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research and development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support, and customer executive briefings.

Like many organizations, EMC was faced with unrelenting information growth; inefficient IT infrastructure utilization; increasingly complex application environments; and congested, energy-exhausting data centers.  In response, in 2004, EMC’s IT organization began moving from a physical to a highly-virtualized IT infrastructure and embarking on what would become its multi-year cloud computing strategy to transform how IT is delivered and consumed through ITaaS.  To accelerate this transformation, the company built a new, energy-efficient cloud data center in Durham, North Carolina.

Well on its way to pervasive virtualization, the new EMC data center provides the foundation required for cloud computing with an architecture that will leverage EMC’s latest information infrastructure technologies, VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies, and Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms from VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel.

Through the EMC IT Proven program, which chronicles and shares IT and cloud computing best practices, the new data center will also serve as a technology showcase for EMC’s customers.  The company will hold customer briefings and tours of its new Durham data center to share best practices and demonstrate firsthand how EMC, VMware, VCE and other partner technologies can help accelerate their own IT transformations.

Reference:
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110915-01.htm

The acquisition is a key part of Fusion’s strategy to enable enterprise customers to increase the utilization, performance and efficiency of their datacenter resources and extract greater value from their information assets.  Having partnered closely for a number of months, Fusion-io and IO Turbine have a shared philosophy for solving datacenter inefficiencies.  The integration of IO Turbine’s software into Fusion’s platform will enable traditional storage infrastructures to keep up with the increasing demands of virtualized servers and expands Fusion’s market opportunities to both new and existing customers.

“IO Turbine’s software is uniquely architected to take advantage of flash memory in the server to solve the I/O bottlenecks, the inhibitor to the adoption of enterprise virtualization,” said David Flynn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fusion-io. “We believe integrating ioMemory and IO Turbine adds a critical and previously missing performance component to virtualized IT environments that will accelerate the adoption of Fusion-io technology. This acquisition also underscores our focus on providing customers with an enterprise solution that features software and hardware components designed to accelerate their business’ full suite of applications.”

San Jose, California-based IO Turbine was founded to address data supply constraints in virtual environments.  While adoption and affordability of flash technologies has provided performance advances in virtualization, effective utilization of flash storage in a shared, virtualized environment has remained complex.

The IO Turbine software takes advantage of flash local to the server, delivering improved performance for virtualized workloads by holding data close to where it is used.  This approach avoids the need for expensive performance-oriented networked storage systems and memory appliances that struggle to deliver performance from the far end of a network, instead allowing enterprises to use cost optimized shared storage systems. The marriage of ioMemory and IO Turbine software improves ROI by increasing the number of virtual machines per physical server.  Moreover, this makes it feasible to virtualize data intensive applications that were previously difficult to migrate to virtualized environments while maintaining performance.  Enterprises will be able to virtualize their entire suite of applications and finally realize the benefit of running a single unified virtualized environment.

“In addition to delivering performance that finally unleashes the potential of virtualization, we believe the combined Fusion-io and IO Turbine solution will also boost efficiency by reducing the costs associated with running expensive backend shared storage, as well as extend the lifespan of enterprises’ current storage area networks.” noted Rich Boberg, CEO of IO Turbine. “By integrating the IO Turbine virtualization software with Fusion’s ioMemory platform, we believe enterprises will finally be able to accelerate even the most I/O intensive applications in virtualized environments.”

At closing, Fusion-io will add approximately 20 IO Turbine employees to its engineering team, with an additional approximately five employees across other areas.

Reference:
http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-to-acquire-io-turbine

Utrecht, 4 Juli 2011 - De integratie van Atos Origin en Siemens IT Solutions and Services in Atos krijgt gestalte met een geheel nieuwe huisstijl voor de volledige organisatie: met een nieuw logo, descriptor signature en een herdefiniëring van de kernwaarden. Atos positioneert zich als een vooruitstrevende partner die IT beschouwt als dé motor van duurzame vooruitgang: voor bedrijven, organisaties en de samenleving als geheel. Zij maakt haar ambities zichtbaar in de pay-off ‘Powering progress with business technologists’. Zo onderscheidt Atos zich als een onderneming die technologische kennis combineert met zakelijke expertise en een diepgaande kennis van industriële sectoren.

Nu de officiële fusie een feit is, tekenen de contouren van de nieuwe organisatie teken zich steeds scherper af. Alle uitingen van Atos – van het opvallende Pantone 3015C-kleurige logo, de visitekaartjes en het briefpapier tot en met de website – zijn aan de nieuwe branding aangepast. De website – http://www.atos.net/ – is online en ook maken de oude logo’s op kantoorpanden in de komende maanden plaats voor het nieuwe beeldmerk. Met de lancering van het nieuwe merk zet Atos zich neer als een wereldspeler met een sterke staat van dienst op het gebied van innovatieve IT-oplossingen. Een positionering waaraan zij invulling geeft met een aanbod van zakelijke technologie die klanten vooruit helpt en in staat stelt hun onderneming van de toekomst te creëren.

“Het nieuwe merk Atos symboliseert de visie van de onderneming dat informatietechnologie de motor  achter duurzame vooruitgang voor bedrijven, organisaties en de maatschappij is. Door technologie, business en menselijk inzicht met elkaar te combineren, versnellen we vooruitgang en bouwen we gezamenlijk aan de “firm of the future” . Het is dan ook onze ambitie om een betrouwbare en verantwoorde partner voor onze klanten te zijn en de beste werkgever voor IT talenten”, aldus Marianne Hewlett, Senior Vice President Brand Management van Atos.

Technologie als drijvende kracht achter verandering
“De fusie is een natuurlijk moment om onze nieuwe kernwaarden in één gemeenschappelijke corporate identity te integreren. In een nieuw merk waarin alle bloedgroepen binnen onze onderneming zich herkennen en waar iedereen achter staat. We willen Atos positioneren als een onderneming die vooruitkijkt en nieuwe mogelijkheden signaleert, waarbij technologie de drijvende kracht is achter verandering. We lanceren dit nieuwe merk om onze marktpositie te versterken en onze kernwaarden – transparantie, betrouwbaarheid, operational excellence, innovatie en duurzaam ondernemen – tot uitdrukking te brengen”, legt Hewlett uit. “In een wereld waarin verandering de norm is, moeten bedrijven zichzelf opnieuw uitvinden. Zij staan voor de uitdaging vorm te geven aan een onderneming die óók in de toekomst succesvol is.

‘Powering progress with business technologists’
Atos wil niet alleen voor organisaties een betrouwbare partner zijn, maar ook de beste werkgever voor haar medewerkers. “In de huidige dynamische en competitieve markt is behoefte aan een nieuwe type professional. De business technologists van Atos zijn professionals die écht luisteren en zo nodig onconventionele antwoorden geven op zakelijke uitdagingen van klanten. Zo fungeren onze medewerkers als drijfveer van veranderingen”, aldus Hewlett. “De technologie staat hierbij ten dienste van strategische veranderingen in de volledige waardeketen. We zijn voortdurend op zoek naar innovaties die aansluiten op nieuwe ontwikkelingen en die klanten in staat stellen zich van andere marktpartijen te onderscheiden. Dit doen we vanuit het bewustzijn dat het ménsen zijn die zakelijk succes mogelijk maken. Onze business technologists zijn deskundige consultants en industriële experts die zich verplaatsen in de uitdagingen waarmee klanten worden geconfronteerd en ontwikkelen end-to-end oplossingen waarmee zij zakelijke doelstellingen kunnen realiseren.”

From Rebel to Leader
Met het doel talentvolle IT-professionals te interesseren voor een loopbaan bij Atos geeft het bedrijf onder de noemer From Rebel to Leader binnenkort het startsein voor een nieuwe wervingscampagne. De campagne is gericht op business technologists met ambitie die beschikken over een ruime technologische expertise, een diepgaande kennis van specifieke industriële sectoren en die zich kunnen verplaatsen in de business van klanten.

Over Atos
Atos is een internationale IT-dienstverlener met een jaaromzet van 8,7 miljard euro. Het bedrijf biedt werk aan 78.500 collega’s in 42 landen. Wereldwijd levert Atos aan haar klanten hi-tech transactieservices, advies, systeemintegratie en Managed Services. Atos focust op het aanbieden van zakelijke technologie die klanten vooruit helpt en in staat stelt hun onderneming  van de toekomst te creëren. Atos is de wereldwijde IT-partner voor de Olympische Spelen en staat genoteerd aan de Paris Eurolist Market. Atos opereert onder de namen Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldline en Atos WorldGrid.

Reference:
http://nl.atos.net/nl-nl/nieuws/persberichten/2011/2011_07_04_01.htm

Paris, 1st July 2011 - Atos, an international IT services company, and Siemens announced today that both companies have completed the transaction pursuant to which Atos has acquired Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH, the holding company of all Siemens IT activities.

All conditions precedent for this transaction have now been completed, the last step was the approval of the transaction by Atos shareholders at the Atos Extraordinary Shareholders meeting held today.

The Atos Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting has in particular approved the following resolutions:

Available globally, this new solution offers clients in all industries a flexible and cost efficient way to manage all their testing requirements so they can move their IT projects, however large, from development phase to production with full confidence. The complete solution covering the whole software development cycle is built on a pay-per-use model designed by Atos Origin using the IBM integrated Rational Jazz toolset. This solution embeds the Testing and Acceptance methodology of Atos Origin on this topic and capitalizes on the long experience developed with our customers.

François Gruau, Senior Vice President at Atos Origin said: “As a longstanding partner of IBM we are delighted to use the integrated toolset – IBM Rational – to offer IT testing services in the cloud. The market for cloud computing is set to grow fast and we have identified testing services as one of the first and fastest growing areas. Testing in the cloud is flexible, cost efficient and fast, helping clients to get services and products to market more quickly.”

Mike Loria, vice president, Business Development, IBM Rational Software at IBM said: “Expanding development and testing capabilities in the cloud is key to our Rational growth strategy. This integration represents an important step in the transition to cloud services and will help customers reduce costs and development time.”

The new service enhances Atos Origin’s Test & Acceptance Management Service Catalogue and can be used together with other services from Atos Origin’s Test & Acceptance Management Service Catalogue or alone.

About Atos Origin
Atos Origin is a leading international Information Technology (IT) services company, providing Hi-Tech Transactional Services, Consulting, Systems Integration and Managed Services to deliver business outcomes globally. The company’s annual revenues are EUR 5 billion and it employs 48,000 people. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.

Reference:
http://www.atosorigin.com/en-us/Newsroom/en-us/Press_Releases/2011/2011_06_06_03.htm