“Riverbed continues to work closely with EMC to ensure organizations are assured more reliable data protection that lowers the costs associated with back-up and replication while helping streamline IT operations. Qualification of Steelhead appliances with EMC RecoverPoint is an additional advantage for enterprises in overcoming the challenges of data protection throughout the distributed enterprise.”

In general, WAN optimization consists of specialized servers in two remote locations exchanging blocks of requested data to see if the data might already be cached at the remote location from a prior use. Riverbed has added portal-based management with a Riverbed Cloud Portal for simplified management of Riverbed Steelhead servers and quick upgrades to Steelhead application instances. The commissioning and assignment of a location for a Cloud Steelhead server can be accomplished with a few clicks from the management interface, said Eric Wolford, Riverbed senior VP of business development, in making the announcement.

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 includes built-in support for Oracle software such as Oracle Database 11g (single instance and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)) and Oracle WebLogic Server as well as Oracle Solaris 11 services such as Apache, Apache Tomcat, DHCP, DNS and NFS.

Leading financial institutions in the United States have hired students from the IBM System z Academic Initiative, including Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Bank of America and Citigroup, among others. IBM’s cloud delivery model gives schools anytime anywhere access to mainframe resources.

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