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IBM DS8880 arrays lift mainframe archiving to the cloud – TechTarget (blog)
IBMStorage has closed the loop on its Transparent Cloud Tiering software by adding it to IBM DS8880 arrays for archival storage of mainframe data.
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The Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) microcode update for IBM DS8880 all-flash arrays became officiallast week following a June 9 soft launch. The IBM DS8880 storage is used predominantly to support IBM z Business mainframe clients.
IBM has integrated TCT for cloud tiering across its storage during the past year, including IBM Elastic Storage Server, IBM FlashSystem all-flash arrays and the midrange Storwize family.
TCT is available on those physical IBM arrays or as software-defined storage with IBM SpectrumScale (formerly known as IBM General Parallel File System) file storage and x86-based SpectrumVirtualize for IBM SAN Volume Controller.
This gives you the ability to create a hybrid cloud with easy data movement across our entire storage portfolio, said Eric Herzog, IBMs chief marketing officer and vice president of worldwide storage channels and software-defined infrastructure.
Adding cloud storage is part of IBMs strategy to hedge against an industry-wide decline in networked storage and server revenues.
No gateways needed for cloud tier
The latest release allows aged data to migrate from z Business systems to an intermediate IBM DS8880 target for eventual archiving to a local or cloud-based object store. Previously, mainframe archiving required data to be ingested from a DS8880 array and written to a physical disk or tape target via the z System storage subsystem.
Tiering also required IBM customers to add a third-party endpoint device to move data to a cloud-based block store, an approach other vendors also take. Dell EMC sells its Cloud Tiering Appliance as a purpose-built hardware or as a VMware virtual appliance.
Because of how we do it (now), you arent required to buy a separate cloud gateway or other additional hardware. We do the tiering right on the array itself, Herzog said.
The latest TCT release presents an IBM DS8880 source target from which customers can select a destination target, including an on-premises object store with the TS7700 storage system or the use of IBM Cloud Object Storage boxes as a hybrid target.
Additionally, IBM Bluemix (formerly IBM SoftLayer) can be chosen to deliver archiving as a service off premises. Herzog said IBM will add an Amazon Simple Storage Service block store to the Bluemix option in August.
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Microsoft Teams for Android now supports third-party cloud storage services – Neowin
After launching Microsoft Teams in 181 countries, Microsoft has been continuously improving the app by adding various new functionalities such as 'classroom experiences'. The company recently announced that it would be adding support for different third-party cloud storage services to its Microsoft Teams app. Today, the application has received another update for Android devices, adding support for third-party cloud storage providers along with some other features as well.
The app now supports sharing files from cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Google Drive. Moreover, users will now have the ability to share files in private one-to-one conversations as well as group chats. The update also brings the support of direct reply to the app.
In addition to that, Microsoft Teams is now available in more languages. The detailed release notes for the update are given below:
Those interested in downloading the updated app can do so by navigating to the Play Store link given below.
Source: Google Play Store via MSPoweruser
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Tintri Walks Like A Duck, Talks Like A Duck – Seeking Alpha
Theres huge pressure for large companies to modernize their IT infrastructure in the wake of the Amazon-ification of infrastructure by AWS.
Tintri (TNTR) is a cloud storage company trying to position themselves as an enterprise cloud provider. Its a smart thing to do but fairly misleading based on their existing revenue and product mix.
They do have some technical advantages as a cloud-storage company in terms of their ability to mix and match with network and compute resources. But they are still painted with the same cloud storage brush. The leading company in this space is Pure Storage (PSTG) which came public in October of 2015 at $17 and has since traded mostly in a range between $10 and $14. PSTG currently changes hands at $13.49.
One disturbing aspect of the Tintri story is their heavy reliance on channels combined with their large investments in their own sales teams. It appears as if their sales teams still do most of the selling and then they run the revenue through channel partners who may also provide some additional implementation services. Company management doesnt explain this anywhere but they are not getting much leverage from their channel partners.
For investors, the challenge of the cloud is competition and margins. There is a relentless pressure on both price and features. Any advantage is hard to sustain in the face of market forces. This is the biggest single reason its hard for companies like Pure Storage and Tintri to get premium valuations. Achieving sustainable profitability in this space requires near-perfect execution in all areas of the business - technology development, sales and operations.
The growth rate at Tintri is slowing down. As we can see below, annual revenue growth declined from over 70% to 45% in 2017 and in the most recent quarter dropped further to 33%.
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It could be that Tintri sandbagged a little bit in the April 2017 quarter to push some deals into what will be their first quarter to be reported as a public company. If so, that will suggest investors will need to look carefully at the Q3 guidance for clues about the sustainable growth rate.
If we take their plans at face value and accept their long-term model, you can see the IV below.
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Thanks to some public market history for Pure Storage, the market has mostly sorted out what price to pay for a company like Tintri. Based on our IV model, the $12 midpoint is reasonable. However, the slowing growth rate and high-cost sales model may cause some investors to wait to see if Tintri can accelerate growth and demonstrate more leverage from their channel partners.
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How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs still further from US cloud storage – ComputerWeekly.com
French organisations have been listening intently to their local data protection authority (CNIL) in the hope of finding a clear path forward following US president Donald Trumps executive order concerning data protection.
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The order came only six months after the EU Commission had accepted Privacy Shield, the patchwork agreement that replaced the Safe Harbor Framework shortly after Safe Harbor had been overturned by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The executive order in question was entitled Enhancing public safety in the interior of the United States. Buried deep down in that order lies Section 14, which read: Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information.
This one statement caused EU data protection authorities to pause for several weeks to evaluate its impact. But, according to IDCs Duncan Brown, the Trump executive order applied only to data handling by government agencies, so it had no legal impact on Privacy Shield. However, it did exacerbate the nervousness that was already out there, he said. And it did indicate how little concern the administration has for data privacy.
According to Alan Calder, CEO at IT Governance, the message threatens US business. He said: Trumps executive order is not supportive of Privacy Shield, and its not supportive of doing business in Europe. Anybody who doesnt think data protection matters will have a hard time doing business in Europe.
For the time being, the worlds biggest cloud providers are based in the US. But Trump has helped open up an entry point for EU-based competitors. In concrete terms, his executive order has motivated European CIOs to rethink their cloud strategy, and to look for alternatives to working with US-based providers.
Lets not forget that the main reason Safe Harbor was shot down by the ECJ was that the US collects data indiscriminately. And with the current US administrations obvious disdain for data privacy, there is no reason to think Privacy Shield wont suffer the same fate.
Calder said: Privacy Shield was a patch put together at the last minute. After Safe Harbor was declared invalid, there was a long period of negotiation, which resulted in Privacy Shield. Like most patches or temporary arrangements, Privacy Shield is fragile. Only about half the number of companies are registered for Privacy Shield as compared to Safe Harbor. I think its been fragile from the offset.
If somebody has a particular complaint, and the money to bring the action before the European Court of Justice, they can do exactly as what happened for Safe Harbor. Privacy Shield is just window dressing.
To make matters worse, the bar was raised a little higher in May 2017 when the EU passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is set to take effect in May 2018. Any company that deals in European data will need to adhere to the new standards set by GDPR.
IDCs Brown said that to understand the complexity of data privacy, consider the example of an international hotel chain with a loyalty programme. The hotel would have to know that Im in the EU as opposed to New York to determine how to treat my data, he said. But just tracking my location is in fact a case of tracking personal data.
The hotel could make the decision to treat all data as if the subjects were in the EU. But then it would be at a competitive disadvantage in the US. Or the hotel chain could decide to just ignore GDPR. But then it would be subject to fines, bad press, and possibly other actions that would severely constrain its ability to do business in the EU.
That is a business decision the hotel will have to take. In any case, GDPR creates uncertainty and cost for a lot of organisations.
But the French seem to be willing to take on the extra cost. Even before Trumps executive order, French organisations were listening intently to CNIL in the hope of finding a clear path forward. CNILs number one recommendation is to hire a data protection officer (DPO). For most private companies, a DPO is optional, but for government agencies and companies that often work with the government, a DPO will be a requirement once GDPR takes effect.
A DPO is an extra salaried employee and an expensive one, at that. Although this might not be much for a large organisation, it puts a strain on smaller entities. Nevertheless, according to CNIL, by the end of last year, 18,000 organisations had already designated a DPO. A DPO is an additional expense for French companies, but it is far less than the potential fine for violating data protection laws. Fines can be as high as 4% of the violating companys revenue.
With the prospect of large fines, and a US president who is at best unpredictable and at worst downright opposed to data privacy, most French CIOs are erring on the side of caution by opting for one of two approaches. Their first, and safest, option is to use EU-based cloud providers. The second best option is to go with a US-based cloud provider, but insist that the data remains in the EU. In either case, the US loses jobs to Europe.
The results are already being felt in France. French-based Orange Business Services is rising to the challenge with new cloud services. And US companies are running services using French employees and French facilities. Amazon Web Services has been operating cloud facilities in France for several years. Now Microsoft will be investing in France with Azure facilities this year.
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Data forensics for cloud storage applications – The Stack
Researchers from the University of Salford, in the UK, have created a taxonomy to assist forensic research of data stored in cloud apps on Android-based mobile devices.
The importance of data retrieval from phones and tablets is of increasing relevance to law enforcement officials, who must follow proscribed evidentiary procedures to ensure that relevant data is retrieved properly. The taxonomy created by the researchers reflects residual data found in 31 separate cloud applications, to aid officials in correlating evidence of user activities with the data retrieved from the device.
The team examined a data set comprised of pictures, documents, audio, video, and web files which were downloaded to an Asus Nexus 7 Google tablet, using one of 31 cloud storage applications available for free on the Google Play Store.
They found that even when the data had been deleted and the tablet memory wiped, they were still able to retrieve different types of data from the device, and that the types and amount of data that could be retrieved varied depending on the cloud application used.
The cloud storage applications were examined using MicroSystemation XRY, a popular forensics tool, on a Windows 10 OS. The applications were all used to store data on the cloud so that it could be retrieved from the device itself or through a website, although some used a third-party cloud service.
The team uploaded the dataset on a closed network, from an alternate device to prevent polluting the data with remnants from the devices internal storage.
Results showed that data that had been uploaded using the XXL Box Secure app could be retrieved in all formats documents, audio and video files, spreadsheets, PDF and HTML files were all accessible using the XRY tool. Similar results were found with the FileManager and MyCloud WD applications.
8 of 9 types of data were recoverable from the FolderSync Lite application, where the team could retrieve all types of files studied excepting MBOX.
Using certain cloud storage applications, however, did not allow any of the data to be recovered using the XRY forensics tool. These applications include Google Drive, DropBox, Box, and the Adobe Creative Cloud.
In the future, the team plans to expand the study of cloud storage application forensics to other types of operating systems and different mobile devices.
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Rettach Launches the First App That Connects Email Service Providers to Cloud Storage Providers – PR Newswire (press release)
DALLAS, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Rettach, a Dallas-based startup, has launched a service that enables automated and seamless connection from email service providers to cloud storage providers.
For many business users, the amount of data in their email attachments often overwhelms their ability to easily organize and securely store critical files. For the average user, most often the option is simply to search through their emails trying to find time-critical files. For others who attempt to organize and save each file, there is no simple automated mechanism to save directly from their email to their preferred cloud storage provider.
"With the growing importance of cloud storage and the all too often burden of managing data in email, we wanted to create a tool that simply, seamlessly and automatically stores and organizes all this data directly into the cloud storage of a user's choice," says Rettach Executive Chairman, Dayakar Puskoor. "Plus, for larger organizations where many files are shared among users, Rettach provides collaboration across shared cloud storage to make it easier and faster to work together on shared data rather than back and forth in email."
The solution was designed to provide flexibility and control over the data as it is automatically stored from virtually any email service to many cloud storage providers. Once implemented Rettach automatically organizes attachments from past emails to selected cloud storage providers and will continue to sync from old to present, organizing files based on a user or organization's rules. The solution supports multiple needs from the single business user who wants to connect his email securely to multiple cloud storage for backup or a larger organization that seeks to enable secure shared access to multiple users across cloud storage.
"We are proud to bring to market a service that helps our user base become far more organized and productive by supercharging the full functionality of Microsoft's Office 365 and Google Apps suites. Rettach connects these services in a better way giving customers more robust security and continuity to their' cloud storage strategies while extending the functionality in a significant way," said Jack Shanes, Rettach Director of Sales and Channel Development. "As a channel-focused development house, we are very excited to provide real value-added services to our channel and managed solution partners. We plan to help them serve and stay ahead of their customers' needs."
Rettach was incubated by Naya Ventures, a Dallas-based VC fund. Prabhakar Reddy, Managing Partner with Naya said, "Recognizing the critical gap in directly and automatically storing valuable data files from email to cloud storage, Rettach offers a powerful yet simple solution for individual professionals and larger businesses to minimize the amount of time searching for files in their Inbox and providing a secure and automated means to store and backup critical documents."
Users may trial Rettach by signing up at http://www.rettach.com.
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Is Cloud Storage’s Future Sunny or Cloudy? – Healthcare Informatics (blog)
I recently saw a download that addresses Three Ways The Cloud Can Help Manage Healthcares Digital Data Tsunami (For the moment, I thought perhaps the cloud was finally getting the attention it deserves for healthcare data storage. Then I saw the following in an email on Googles initiative to remove medical records data from its searches.
The first article relates to Philips Healthcares experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), while the second relates to Googles web services. On the one hand, the first publication implies that cloud storage is cost effective, secure, and scalable. The second publication addresses concerns with respect to patient information and the risk of identity theft.
In light of the recent WannaCry Ransomware attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack), security concerns are elevated with respect to sensitive patient information. Controlling information behind a healthcare providers firewall is one thing, but managing it in the cloud might be quite another. Perhaps there is some difference between a private versus public cloud, but given the rash of healthcare provider attacks involving the WannaCry Ransomware, there is probably genuine concern with respect to remote data storage.
Such concern has probably caused cloud service providers to double down on security provisions, and they are probably safer now than in the past. Still, it speaks to having an effective strategy in mind when planning to use cloud services. It probably doesnt hurt to have a contingency plan, as well as a response plan should there be an attack involving patient data.
There are many good reasons to consider the cloud for data storage, as demonstrated by the first article, especially the data tsunami resulting from the expansion of electronic medical records. One challenge facing healthcare providers is what information to send to the cloud. Are patient document records or images better handled in the cloud? Given that images represent substantially more data, they might be considered a better option, as they would place greater strains on internal infrastructure. One key factor to consider are the SLA (service line agreement) requirements required. Factors such as the bandwidth of the connection, recall demand, volume of transactions, reliability, security risk, etc. must be considered in matching requirements with available performance.
Regardless of what data is sent to the cloud, there needs to be a clear understanding of who owns the data, and a minimum cost to retrieve that data should storage plans change. I am reminded of one facility I have worked with that felt as if they were being held at ransom by the vendor when it came time to retrieve the data into another solution.
With ever-increasing demands on data such as analytics, making smart use of all available storage options will continue to be a key challenge for healthcare IT professionals.
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News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage – ComputerWeekly.com
News UK has revamped its backup systems with Zadara cloud storageas part of an ongoing cloud-first push, saving around 40% on the potential cost of in-house hardware and software.
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The company publisher of titles that include The Sun and The Times replaced Symantec NetBackup backup software with Commvault and ditched its ageing StorageTek SL3000 tape library.
Head of infrastructure Iain Caldwell said the existing backup system had experienced nightly job failures.
We had multiple servers crashing, jobs taking twice as long, he said. The whole backup solution was a mess, so we decided to start from scratch, said Caldwell.
The company put out a request for proposaland looked at all the leading backup software suppliers, eventually choosing Commvault, which it paired with Zadara cloud storage.
We didnt want to put more hardware in our datacentres and wanted to retire the behemoth of a tape library. It was the size of a Mini, said Caldwell.
He said the company also looked at Amazon S3 and Google Cloud, as well as using commodity hardware, but eventually opted for Zadara because it was very affordable; hard to ignore.
Zadara Storage is a software-defined storage product that can be used on-premise as well as off-site. It provides file, block and object access, and customers can choose cache and memory capacity, drive type, Raid levels and disaster recovery options, with cloud features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity of performance and service duration.
News UK has deployed Zadara VPSA cloud-based storage arrays at three locations two in London, one in Manchester.
Caldwell said the key benefits were ease of deployment and reconfiguration, solid data protection and reduced costs compared with equipping an in-house datacentre.
We get five nines availability, and a quick response if we need to implement something new; you can expect to have something done in four or five hours. Weve only had to be in touch a couple of times and the support has been fantastic, he said.
Caldwell estimated that by opting for a cloud-based target for backups the company had saved around 40% on the costs it would have incurred for hardware renewals and software licences.
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IBM Simplifies Object Storage for Cisco Customers – PR Newswire (press release)
LAS VEGAS, June 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Today at CiscoLive, Cisco's annual IT and communications conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that companies using Cisco UCS servers can now manage their data intensive workloads securely and efficiently on-premises with the IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) System, now available as a VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage. This pre-validated, tested and supported solution is designed to offer modern, flexible storage for unstructured data for use cases such as active archive, backup, content repository, enterprise collaboration and cloud application development.
Businesses rely on a variety of storage architectures, including file and block storage for traditional workloads and performance-centric applications. Today's organizations are increasingly adding object storage for its massive scalability, cost efficiency and ability to manage rich, user-definable metadata.
IBM and Cisco have collaborated to simplify and speed object storage adoption for customers with the VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage. The combination of the Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server, C220 Rack Servers and Cisco Nexus 9K switches with IBM Cloud Object Storage System is ideal for data intensive workloads, supporting IT organizations with an easily scalable solution.
Customers can use their same on-premises Cisco hardware and server management tools to add IBM Cloud Object Storage to their current IT environments, allowing them to manage their data from petabyte to exabyte scale with reliability, security, availability and disaster recovery all without replication. This new offering will modernize storage access, so that when clients are ready to extend their workloads into a hybrid cloud storage environment, the processing and tools are already in place for them to use their IBM Cloud Object Storage software, in either a private or hybrid cloud environment.
"The growth of unstructured data in the enterprise is driving the need for a highly scalable, cost effective storage architecture," said Satinder Sethi, vice president, data center solutions, Cisco. "Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers are built to deliver rapid scalability and performance coupled with maximum investment protection through multi-generational system design. Cisco is collaborating with IBM to extend VersaStack with a new cloud object storage solution, that is built on UCS S3260 storage server, 40G fabric and IBM Cloud Object Storage that can scale from terabytes to petabytes in minutes."
IBM Cloud Object Storage redefines the availability, security and economics of data storage, requiring less storage, power, floor space, personnel and cost than traditional storage options. It complements IBM's high and medium-performance flash and disk storage options, available for Cisco customers via IBM VersaStack, by providing a different kind of storage environment one that is built for cloud native applications; unstructured data like video, audio, image and documents; and archive and other data protection needs.
IBM takes a "software-defined/hardware-aware" approach to object storage. IBM Cloud Object Storage provides information about the status of both the logical and physical elements of the system in one view. This includes statistics on the health of disk drives, fans, NICs and the temperature of major system components. Intelligence delivered in the IBM COS Manager makes it easy for a single administrator to manage 10s of petabytes of storage, which can significantly lower the total cost of ownership for large scale object storage systems.
"At IBM, we want to make it easy for organizations to adapt their IT environments when business needs change," said Phil Buckellew, general manager, IBM Cloud Object Storage. "Providing IBM Cloud Object Storage for Cisco hardware customers does just that it allows them to use their existing investments to gain massive scalability for large volumes of data or changing business needs, with the option to extend into the IBM Cloud if and when it makes sense for them."
The VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage is backed by a Cisco Validated Design (CVD), which provides guidance on design and deployment of the solution, enabling Cisco customers and channel resellers to repeat the successful approaches they have taken with other Cisco validated solutions and seamlessly add object storage to their IT tool kit. It also simplifies the integration process for Cisco customers, who can now use their existing Cisco purchasing agreements and support structure to implement a flexible IBM Cloud Object Storage environment.
The VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage is available now, joining a growing family of VersaStack solutions jointly developed by IBM and Cisco. VersaStack solutions now have 19 validations (combined CVDs and Redbooks), enabling IBM and Cisco's joint customers to address a wide range of workloads and use cases.
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Microsoft Teams adds Dropbox, Google Drive, Box Drive, ShareFile … – OnMSFT (blog)
A couple of days ago, Microsoft Teams announced that they would be adding third party cloud storage soon. As of yesterdays update, the team collaboration software now has four more alternatives to using the default SharePoint/OneDrive setup.
Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and ShareFile integrations have all joined Microsoft Teams. Now workplaces that use one of these options are able to add the cloud storage folders easily to Teams where users with permissions can view, edit, and save in one convenient location.
While Google Drive and Dropbox are more commonly known, Box and ShareFile are a bit less so. Box itself just recently added its desktop support with Box Sync adding Teams integration just two weeks later. ShareFile is more focused towards business and client interactions, making it a perfect addition to the Teams cloud storage options.
Its possible well see more options added as Microsoft develops Teams further. The software continues to get regular updates for features, improvements, and fixes thanks to community feedback through the Feedback Hub. Even if their release notes page is just a little behind.
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