Channel Strategies for the CIOSearchITChannel.com news in brief for November 23, 2010
New Microsoft SCVMM 2012 takes aim on vCloud Director
Microsoft's proposed System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ( SCVMM 2012), due next year, promises features that would make it much more competitive with VMware's vCloud Director.
Microsoft recently demonstrated new administrative roles and workflows for self-service portals, which support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and new support for automated, wizard-driven provisioning of server, network and storage hardware for virtual machine deployments through Virtual Machine Manager.
VMware's vCloud Director was positioned as a "manager of all managers," a centralized management layer to help companies move into private clouds. The new SCVMM promises similar strides, according to SearchServerVirtualization.com.
Compellent spruces up SAN arrays with storage virtualization, SAS support
This week, VAR favorite Compellent Technologies added storage virtualization and SAS support to its SAN arrays.
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Center now features Live Volume storage
virtualization software that will enable VARs to migrate data volumes between arrays without
disrupting service, according to SearchStorage.com. It also updated controllers from Series 30 to
Intel Nehalem quad-core-based Series 40. Also new: Support for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch 6 Gbps
SAS drives. VARs can stuff up to 24 2.5-inch drives in a 2U enclosure or 16 3.5-inch drives in
a 3U box.
Government oversight overshadows cloud security
ORLANDO, Fla.-- Cloud computing providers have to mind their security Ps & Qs or they may be out of luck.
That's according to speakers at the first annual Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress 2010 here last week. It's in the best interests of the emerging cloud computing industry to regulate itself on user privacy and data protection before the Feds do so, said Pamela Jones Harbour, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and now a partner with law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP.
Market pressure for safe, secure and private cloud services should drive best practices, Harbour and others said, according to SearchCloudComputing.com. But, "market forces may not be enough and regulators may find it necessary to step in," she said.
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