Lanamark offers subscription-based licensing

Lanamark, a global provider of cross-vendor virtualisation and capacity management services platforms, has unveiled Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition, reports ZDNet.

This edition enables IT consultants, managed service providers, system integrators and value-added resellers to offer subscription-based capacity management and optimisation services.

Lanamark now offers subscription-based licensing of Lanamark Suite to business partners. Hardware, software and performance data can be collected without agents from up to 50 000 endpoints at each location using a single data collector, which can be deployed in minutes.

As more IT organisations consider cloud computing as a potential means to deploy new services at lower costs, industry watchers point out that without investigating the management, security, compliance and automation requirements needed to succeed with private and public cloud computing deployments, hi-tech buyers won't see the promised benefits, states Network World.

“The responsible cloud is the ultimate goal, and it involves a cloud computing paradigm that is well-managed, highly automated, compliant and business-oriented,” says Andi Mann, vice-president of systems and storage management at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), who recently authored the EMA report, 'The responsible cloud'.

According to recent EMA research detailed in the report, approximately 11% of 159 enterprises companies surveyed intend to implement cloud computing in the coming 12 months.

Quantum is adding data deduplication to its StorNext data management software, giving customers the ability to reduce capacity of archived and in some cases primary data, says TechTarget.

StorNext 4.0 will deduplicate data natively in the file system. It uses the same deduplication IP as Quantum's DXi disc-backup systems, according to StorNext product manager, Chris Duffy.

As with the DXi platform, StorNext's deduplication will find redundant blocks of data across files and store only the unique data. StorNext 4.0 also supports replication, so customers can move deduplicated files offsite for disaster recovery.