Drobo 5N teased with ethernet connectivity
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Drobo 5N teased with ethernet connectivity
Drobo has teased its latest model, the Drobo 5N, adding ethernet connectivity to the storage technology in the Drobo 5D and Mini. Replacing the Drobo FS, the new 5N is “very close” according to CEO Tom Buiocchi, and described as “a close sibling to what we already have” making it likely a slight reworking of the five-bay Drobo 5D (pictured) announced back in June.The Drobo 5N “leverages all of the cool new architecture and capabilities under the hood in the new Drobo 5D and Mini, including SSD support” Buiocchi explains, “with an Ethernet port to connect to your network rather than Thunderbolt and USB.” The executive also suggests that it will use the same speed technologies as the 5D and Mini, which suggests the Drobo Accelerator bay will be included.That bay accepts an mSATA solid-state drive, which although too small to play a dedicated role in the redundancy array, is used as a caching drive to speed up accessing of commonly-required files. That’s only part of the speed improvements over the previous generation, Drobo claims, owever.Exact release times haven’t been confirmed, though “I certainly wouldn’t buy another networked storage device in the next few weeks if I were you” Buiocchi suggests. However, the Drobo 5D is priced at $849 for a point of reference, with Drobo offering a 60GB mSATA SSD for the Drobo Accelerator bay at $169.
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D-Link weatherproof webcam is your eye among the wildlife
D-Link has outed its latest home security camera, the HD PoE Outdoor Cloud Camera (DCS-2310L), promising streaming 720p video for those moments you’re convinced the squirrels are preparing to storm the castle. Weatherproof and supporting power-over-ethernet rather than WiFi, the compact camera shoots 1280 x 720 video or 1280 x 800 stills and squirts them both over its 10/100 ethernet connection and saves them to a microSDHC card.There’s also two-way communication support, thanks to an integrated speaker and microphone, and IR illumination for low-light visibility. The camera has a fixed-focus 3.45mm f/2.0 lens and the whole thing is wrapped up in an IP-65 compliant weatherproof housing, secure against “low jets” of water, rain, and dust.A PIR motion sensor on the front automatically triggers recording as well as an optional alert to the user, hopefully allowing you to spot the squirrel trebuchet as it’s being wheeled across the lawn. If you slot in a memory card – D-Link doesn’t supply one – it will automatically duplicate video to there and any network-attached video storage system you might have set up.Remote access from iPhone, iPad, and Android device rounds out the main specs, and D-Link promises easy setup thanks to the PoE. It’s on sale in the UK from today, priced at £246.49 ($394).
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Cloud Managed Service Provider Selects Brocade Ethernet Fabric Technology to Support Service Growth and Demand
Oncore IT Deploys Brocade VDX 6710 and 6720 Data Centre Switches in Its London and Amsterdam Data Centres to Guarantee Network Performance and Offer Pay-for-Port Capability Marketwire LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 11/21/12 -- In its predictions for the top ten trends CIOs need to plan for in 2012, Gartner(1) describes the cloud "a disruptive force [which] has the potential for broad long-term impact in most industries." London-based cloud managed service provider, Oncore IT, is a testament to this trend. In order to meet the demands of more than 100 customers, Oncore IT has turned to Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) for a data centre networking solution based on Brocade® Ethernet fabrics and VCS® Fabric technology. This new solution is designed to guarantee performance and service availability, while delivering a flexible "pay-per-port" pricing model for customers.Founded in 1995, Oncore IT has vast experience delivering and managing critical IT infrastructure for clients operating from the most secure data centers in London and Amsterdam. With client retention rates of 95 percent, Oncore IT has a proven track record working in legal, financial and enterprise vertical markets providing a variety of hosting, co-location and cloud-based services -- all guaranteed by service level agreements and solutions managed 365/24/7 by technical experts and dedicated account managers.Paul Cook, Oncore IT's head of sales and marketing, said, "While the market is still buzzing with interest around the cloud, to address the reservations people have about it, service providers must take total responsibility for their cloud solutions given customer expectations about high service levels. Data center networking infrastructure is key to achieving this, and our investment in Brocade is all about making the necessary performance improvements using proven, best-of-breed equipment so as to stay ahead and deliver a truly exceptional cloud experience. We didn't just want to improve performance, but instead go a step further and guarantee it, which is what we've done."With Oncore IT successfully migrating more and more of its customers to a cloud model, it faced the subsequent challenges of data growth on its network, a greater number of virtualized and hosted solutions all requiring shared storage, along with 90 percent of its customers utilizing a virtualized server farm for online backup and disaster recovery solutions. To address these challenges, the company needed to upgrade its switch environment. Oncore IT had last done so four years prior, and the previous switch infrastructure was struggling to meet the service levels required for virtual machine performance, backup times and shared storage.Following a thorough review of competitive products, Oncore IT selected Brocade VDX® 6710 and 6720 Data Centre Switches and Brocade VCS Fabric technology, which revolutionizes the design of Layer 2 networks inside data centers. The equipment was supplied by Brocade partner, NetSumo.Brocade Ethernet fabrics are designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability and dramatically simplify network architectures in highly virtualized data centers. In addition to simplifying the network environment, the new Ethernet fabric deployment will provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance to boost Oncore IT's network capacity to meet increasing bandwidth demands.Mick Caney, Oncore IT's technical lead, explained the impact from an IT delivery perspective, stating, "At peak times, network traffic was becoming a little 'bursty' and we would experience some packet loss that affected performance. The issue was most pronounced when servers were accessing our HDS BlueArc [NAS/iSCSI] storage platform over the network. Latency was too high and throughput wasn't truly wire-speed. The upgrade to the Brocade VDX-based Ethernet fabric has solved this issue plus given us a scalable platform for future growth."Oncore IT has created two 10 GbE fabrics -- one in London and the other at Oncore IT's replicated data centre in Amsterdam -- using eight Brocade VDX 6710 and two Brocade VDX 6720 switches. After a seamless rollout, the project is now complete and the switches in production delivering exactly what Oncore IT wanted.Caney said, "Brocade Ethernet fabric technology is allowing Oncore IT to begin the move away from spanning tree protocol, which can become difficult to manage as networks grow. These factors, combined with 'virtual chassis' technology and full support for next-generation network technologies, like Converged Enhanced Ethernet and Data Centre Bridging, were instrumental in Oncore IT's decision to go with the Brocade VDX platform."The "virtual chassis" capability means Oncore IT can locate different individual switches throughout a building and aggregate them together so they function as one physical chassis. This increases flexibility in terms of how equipment is managed throughout the data center sites, given the fact that there are suites of switches on multiple floors.While the primary goal of the project was an engineering one to enhance performance, there will also be commercial advantages. Cook explained, "For our established SME customers, most need only two or three ports for connectivity. An additional benefit of the Brocade upgrade is that clients can now take switch ports from us -- and pay per port -- with their servers then linked to our Ethernet fabric. It is a win-win for everyone. We benefit as our infrastructure is easier to manage, network performance is guaranteed and customers can save money by using our switch environment if they want to, rather than buying their own."Alberto Soto, vice president EMEA at Brocade, commented, "Clearly enterprises are interested in the cloud as a way of solving a wide range of seemingly mutually exclusive challenges -- accessing higher-performing and more robust IT solutions, improving commercial agility, minimizing operational complexity and reducing cost. From a service provider perspective, the key is all about guaranteeing delivery given the fact that customers become totally reliant on their partner when in the cloud. This new approach shows how companies at the forefront of delivering cloud solutions, like Oncore IT, are turning to Brocade for the network performance they need to ensure this."About Brocade Data Centre Networking and Ethernet Fabric Solutions Network architects are looking for ways to build more powerful, flatter networks that can support higher traffic loads and increased east-to-west traffic in virtualized environments, all while avoiding network congestion. Collapsing network layers also reduces complexity, which lowers overhead costs and reduces risk. This type of design, however, requires high-density, high-bandwidth network components that deliver full wire-speed connectivity. With Ethernet fabric technology and the industry's most powerful routers for enterprise data centers, Brocade can help organizations build flatter, simpler networks today -- and at measurably lower cost than the competition.For more information, please visit www.brocade.com
Additional resources Video -- Paul Cook, Oncore IT's head of sales and marketing, and Mick Caney, Oncore IT's technical lead, discuss the benefits of deploying a data center networking solution based on Brocade Ethernet fabrics and VCS Fabric technology. About Brocade Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world's leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.ADX, Brocade, Brocade Assurance, Brocade One, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, ICX, MLX, MyBrocade, SAN Health, VCS, and VDX are registered trademarks, and AnyIO, HyperEdge, NET Health, OpenScript, and The Effortless Network are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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