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"Even those well-versed in the religious right's attempt to Christianize American institutions will likely be shocked by The Good News Club. Katherine Stewart's book about the fundamentalist assault on public education is lucid, alarming, and very important." -MICHELLE GOLDBERG, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.
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In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of "Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their "unchurched" peers, all the while promoting the natural but false impression among the children that its activities are endorsed by the school.
Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this—and other forms of religious activity in public schools—legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey to dozens of cities and towns across the nation to document the impact. In this book she demonstrates that there is more religion in America's public schools today than there has been for the past 100 years. The movement driving this agenda is stealthy. It is aggressive. It has our children in its sights. And its ultimate aim is to destroy the system of public education as we know it.


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Colleges and universities have been infusing sustainability into engineering curricula for more than 10 years. What are some of the drivers and, more important, how do we go to the next level and what does it look like? My expectation is that all engineering faculty members and graduates will understand the principles of sustainability as they apply to their field of engineering.
In my view, the accreditation of engineering programs is an important driver. ABET, an organization that accredits college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering and engineering technology, has included sustainability in its engineering accreditation criteria. ABET engineering criterion 3 specifies that students graduating from accredited schools should be able to design systems that meet several realistic constraints, including sustainability.
Two of the three pillars of sustainability - economics and environment - are long-recognized design constraints and engineering design is increasingly sensitive to social constraints. ABET engineering Criterion 3 goes on to require that graduates will have acquired "the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context."
Through my work with the American Society for Engineering Education, I know that many faculty members are infusing sustainability into engineering curricula from lectures in introductory engineering courses to complete courses at the graduate level. Much of what has been reported is based on projects supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Center for Sustainable Engineering at Syracuse University, along with five other universities, conducts a summer course to introduce faculty members to sustainability and maintains an electronic library on the subject. At a workshop on sustainability at the ASEE 2013 annual meeting, it was evident that many of the academic champions for sustainability are alumni of the Center for Sustainable Engineering summer course.
Engineering is being globalized, and sustainability figures prominently in the attributes and professional competencies of the International Engineering Alliance, which apply to Washington, Dublin, and Sydney Accord graduates. Back in the United States, sustainability is included as a separate outcome in the second edition of the American Society of Civil Engineers Body of Knowledge, or BOK, and in the draft National Society of Professional Engineers BOK.
Sustainability is prominent in federal regulations and codes and standards that students are learning about and can be expected to consult in their design projects. Sustainability is important in student co-curricular activities such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's P3 competition, the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, and Engineers Without Borders. Campus buildings and infrastructure are going green and many engineering students may have attended a green middle or high school. There are many opportunities now to use college campuses and schools as sustainability laboratories.
Yet there is recognition that university curricula broadly, and engineering curricula specifically, are lagging in bringing sustainability into the classroom. Why? What are some of the barriers?
According to a 2010 survey of civil engineering department heads, some of the main barriers are a crowded curriculum, lack of faculty awareness and a lack of teaching resources.
The consensus of educators at a June 2013 ASEE workshop is that, while there is no lack of resources, those resources are not as conveniently packaged and ready to use as traditional textbooks. An effective strategy is needed to make resources available in forms that faculty can easily integrate into courses from introduction to engineering to capstone design courses in all engineering fields.
Although extensive resources exist, so far there is no one best choice or practice for dissemination and sharing, although there are several good options. Examples include the National Science Foundation's digital library and Connexions, an educational resource website for sharing learning modules, and there are others. Faculty members expect that online learning will play a larger role in engineering education and professional development and that online learning will be facilitated by the extensive electronic resources that are freely available.
Opportunities already exist for students to learn on their own. The U.S. Green Building Council has a very popular program for introducing LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) to college students and a Center for Green Schools that it established "to drive the transformation of all schools into sustainable and healthy places to live, learn, work and play." Students can earn a certificate online from Coursera for successfully completing an introduction to sustainability course based on a free online Connexions textbook.
Faculty development is needed to lower the barriers to using online tools and resources effectively and efficiently; this will undoubtedly be a continuing need as technologies themselves continue to rapidly evolve and the knowledge base grows exponentially. Needs for faculty development range from a basic awareness of sustainability and how it applies in different engineering fields to how to access and use the extensive teaching and learning resources that are available.
Three keys to accelerating the infusion of sustainability in engineering curricula in my view are continuing to lower the barriers to the access and use of extensive materials that exist in electronic form for teaching and learning sustainability, professional development for faculty to ensure efficient access and use of materials in the classroom, and the expansion of programs designed to educate students directly on sustainability.
William E. Kelly, Ph.D., P.E., is director of external affairs at the American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, D.C. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society Advisory Group, the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Sustainability, and ASTM International Committee E60 on Sustainability.


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Henry Gambell was comfortable gambling in Texas Hold'em tournaments, but placing bets in the �options market? Not so much. That is, until he answered a routine in-house service call while working as a member of Best Buy's Geek Squad in Austin, Texas. Thanks to that call, he found his calling as a day trader.
On that fortuitous day in 2010, Gambell met John Carter, an active trader and author of the book 'Mastering the Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting From Intraday and Swing Trading Setups.'
The two men quickly discovered some shared interests, Gambell recalls. He told Carter about his affinity for probability and statistics, key elements to playing poker and trading equities " two ways he was supplementing his income at the time.
That initial conversation led to a mentoring partnership between Carter and Gambell, which ultimately led to the creation of the company Simpler Trading, a platform for interactive financial trading education.
In less than a decade, Gambell has gone from student to teacher: Today, the 31-year-old is vice president and lead content provider at Simpler Trading and has contributed to subsequent editions of Carter's book.Learning by doing
Gambell �received no formal education; rather, he read Carter's book, immersed himself in the options market, 'got beat up,' lost the $3,000 he started with, then eventually started making money.
'I went in headfirst and, like with anything, that means you learn things the hard way,' he says.
In those early times, one particular day sticks out that caused Gambell to question this new vocation. He was trading options strategies on Amazon when he found himself in a 'painful spot,' grappling with bigger losses than he'd anticipated.
'You have these moments when you truly realize you're on your own and you have to make your way,' he says.
But he kept at it, and today, Gambell's trading serves as a means to educate others. (The Simpler Trading team trades with its own funds, but shares strategies with members.)
Whether day trading is �right for you �is a personal decision.
'Trading is something you have to want to pursue; it's a special kind of hell,' he says, laughing.
When he's not immersed in the market, Gambell prioritizes self-care. He relies on some morning rituals " yoga, meditation, and a liter of water infused with lemon, salt or electrolytes " to keep the emotional extremes of trading in check.
'Trading can make you crazy, and at the very least it can be stressful,' he says, adding that sticking to a well-thought-out plan ensures each day is 'just another day at the office.'Another day at the office
If you're learning how to day trade, seeing how other people spend their time can be eye-opening. Here's how Gambell spends a typical day, in his words:
6 a.m. �When I'm not working where I wake up, I'm fortunate to have an apartment that's two minutes door-to-door from our office, and that makes for a nice commute. Once I'm awake, there are three primary things I focus on: hydration, movement and meditation.
7 a.m. �I start thinking about nutrition. I don't get too carried away here, but your brain has to have fuel, and I find that a High Brew Coffee 'Black & Bold' and an Rxbar do the trick when I don't have a lot of extra time. When I do, avocado toast with scrambled eggs is a brain-friendly meal that doesn't take long to prepare.
7:30 a.m. �I'm usually up, fed and ready to embrace what the markets have to offer. I've got my typical swing setups [a strategy to hold trades overnight at a minimum " typically three to five days] I'll be looking to manage, but I also like to know if anything is setting up that I might be able to day trade, or capitalize on with a short-term setup. Something I'll enter and exit in the same day.
I find that I'm not scouring headlines, but instead looking for stocks with at least a $600 million market cap, trading above $20, and that have also traded at least 50,000 shares before the market opens at 8:30 a.m. Central time. These names generally have something going on, and I'll be looking for support and resistance [technical terms describing price levels] to make my decisions.
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8:30 a.m. �U.S. markets open. I focus on sharing everything I have up to that point with our members in the Simpler Trading chat room. I focus primarily on equity options, and we'll spend the next 90 minutes reviewing these tickers, levels and any positions we'd like to establish against them. When we reach the top of the hour, I mute my mic, take a breath and get a short text update together that goes out to members through our mobile app.
10:30 a.m. �I've traded anything I wanted to during the open, sent out a summary of how the morning went, and now I force myself to go get some exercise. After an hour of Crossfit, pilates or yoga (if I missed it that morning), I'm ready to head back to the office and check on the current state of affairs.
Noon. �Lunch is catered to our office three days out of the week. It's a nice perk that helps me not have to venture too far from my screens, but still takes care of that midday nutrition, a spot I find all too easy to skip out on if markets are busy.
12:30 p.m. �I devote part of these hours to client emails, creating content for Simpler Trading and possibly taking my dog Lucy for a walk. She's a great companion during the day and helps keep stress low around the office.
2 p.m. �The last hour of the cash markets tends to be one of the most important hours of the day, next to the cash open. This is when you'll typically find more volume, and I'll scan my favorite names looking for potential opportunities.
3 p.m. �I start diving into the evening analysis. Two days out of the week, I create a video newsletter for our clients and a shorter video that's posted to sites like YouTube. These videos focus on current trades and their performance, then a look ahead to what setups may be forming and how we can try to take advantage of them.
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5 p.m. The standard workday has come to a close, and the rest of the evening has some variables " the first of which is, do we have a webinar? Generally we'll have at least three free webinars a month, if not more, and we typically have an all-hands-on-deck approach to these events.
If there's not a webinar, I'll make the short trip back to the apartment, where I'll spend the evening with my soon-to-be wife around the pool.
10 p.m. �I try to be in bed at a decent hour most nights. My life is much better with adequate sleep, and I just can't operate on five hours.
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Correctly sizing a disk backup with deduplication to meet your current and future needs is an important part of your data protection strategy. If you ask the right questions upfront and analyze each aspect of your environment that impacts backup requirements, you can avoid the consequences of buying an undersize system that quickly exceeds capacity.
First and foremost, it's important to understand that this sizing exercise is different than the process of sizing a primary storage system. In primary storage you can simply say, "I have 8TB to store and so I will buy 10TB." In disk-based backup with deduplication, a sizing exercise must be conducted based on a number of factors. Here's what to consider:
* Data types. The data types you have directly impact the deduplication ratio and therefore the system you need. If your mix of data types is conducive to deduplication and has high deduplication ratios (e.g., 50:1), then the deduplicated data will occupy less storage space and you need a smaller system. If you have a mix of data that does not deduplicate well (i.e., 10:1 or less data reduction), then you will need a much larger system. What matters is what deduplication ratio is achieved in a real-world environment with a real mix of data types.
* Deduplication method. The deduplication method has a significant impact on deduplication ratio. All deduplication approaches are not created equal.
Zone-level with byte comparison or alternatively 8KB block-level with variable length content splitting will get the best deduplication ratios. The average is a 20:1 deduplication ratio with a general mix of data types.
64KB and 128KB fixed block will produce the lowest deduplication ratio, as the blocks are too big to find many repetitive matches. The average is a 7:1 deduplication ratio.
4KB fixed block will get close to the above but often suffers a performance hit. A 13:1 deduplication ratio is the average with a general mix of data types.
* Retention. The number of weeks of retention you keep impacts deduplication ratio as well. This is because the longer the retention, the more the deduplication system is seeing repetitive data. Therefore, the deduplication ratio increases as the retention increases. Most vendors will say that they get a deduplication ratio of 20:1, but when you do the math, that is typically if the retention period is about 16 weeks. If you keep only two weeks of retention, you may only get about a 4:1 reduction.
Here is an example to highlight this: If you have 10TB of data and you keep four weeks of retention, then without deduplication you would store about 40TB of data. With deduplication, assuming a 2% weekly change rate, you would store about 5.6TB of data, so the deduplication ratio is about 7.1:1 (40TB ÷ 5.6TB = 7.1:1). However, if you have 10TB of data, and you keep 16 weeks of retention, then without deduplication you would store about 160TB of data (10TB x 16 weeks). With deduplication, assuming a 2% weekly change rate, you would store about 8TB of data, which is a deduplication ratio of 20:1 (160TB ÷ 8TB = 20:1).
* Rotation. Your backup rotation will also impact the size of the disk-based backup with deduplication system you need. If you are doing rolling full backups each night, then you need a larger system than if you are doing incremental backups on files during the week and then a weekend full backup. Rotation schemes are usually:
Database and email
Full backup on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, weekend
File data
Incrementals forever or optimized synthetics -- this copies only changed files each night, and there is no weekend full
Incrementals -- Copies changed files each night, full backup of all files on the weekend
Differentials -- Copies files each night that have changed since the last full backup, full backup of all files on the weekend
Rolling fulls -- Breaks total full backup into a subset and backs up a portion of the full backup each night (e.g., if the full backup is 30TB, then back up 10TB each night and keep rotating on a three-day schedule)
Because the backup rotation scheme you use changes how much data is being sent to the disk-based backup with deduplication system, this also impacts the system size you require.
* Cross protection. Two scenarios:
Sizing Scenario 1: You are backing up data at Site A and replicating to Site B for disaster recovery. For example, if Site A is 10TB and Site B is just for disaster recovery, then a system that can handle 10TB at Site A and 10TB at Site B is required.
Sizing Scenario 2: However, if backup data is kept at both Site A (e.g., 10TB) and at Site B (e.g., 6TB), and the data from Site A is being replicated to Site B while the data from Site B is being cross-replicated to Site A, then a larger system on both sides is required.
Bottom line for sizing a system
In summary, dozens of possible scenarios impact the sizing of a system, including:
How much data is in your full backup? What percentage of the data is compressed (including media files), encrypted, database, unstructured?
What is the required retention period in weeks/months on-site?
What is the required retention period in weeks/months off-site?
What is the nightly backup rotation?
Is data being replicated one way only or backed up from multiple sites and cross-replicated?
Other considerations unique to your environment
When working with a vendor, ensure it offers a tool that allows it to calculate the exact size of the system you need based on all of the above.
It is very common to see an organization acquire a disk backup with deduplication system and, in a few short months, have it fill up because the system was undersize, retention was longer, the rotation scheme put more data into the system, the deduplication method had a low deduplication ratio, or the data types were such that they could not deduplicate well.
Because disk-based backup with deduplication is not simply primary storage, vendors should have the proper tools to help you size the system correctly.
Keep in mind that with this sizing exercise, your goal is to avoid either (a) buying a costly system that has excessive capacity relative to your needs today, or (b) an undersize system that will require a forklift upgrade once data growth exceeds its capacity.
By carefully evaluating each of your scenarios and requirements upfront, and asking the right questions of the vendor, you can choose the right system that will positively impact backup performance for the long term.
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It's hard to keep up with all the companies joining The Linux Foundation these days, but recently one jumped on board whose name threw a collective hush over the Linux blogosphere.
Toyota, that is -- none other than the planet's largest automobile manufacturer in terms of both sales and production.
Is there really anything else to say? Linux, you're on top of the world.
'The Flexibility We Require'
"Linux gives us the flexibility and technology maturity we require to evolve our In-Vehicle-Infotainment and communications systems to address the expectations of our customers," said Kenichi Murata, a project general manager with Toyota. "The Linux Foundation provides us with a neutral forum in which we can collaborate with the world's leading technology companies on open innovation that accelerates that evolution."
Toyota joined the foundation as a full-fledged gold member, in fact, making it clear that it's betting big on the open source operating system.
Did Linux bloggers take note? You bet your favorite dashboard computing device they did.
'The Next Big Opportunity'
"Cars: The Next Big Platform Opportunity for Linux?" reads OStatic's headline, for instance.
"Linux and open source is continuing to grow in importance as the framework for intelligent devices from digital video recorders (DVRs) to smartphone to, yes, the car your driveway," wrote ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Similar sentiments could be heard on countless other highways and byways of the blogosphere, so Linux Girl knew it was time to learn more.
'They Will Save a Fortune'
"Linux makes a fantastic embedded platform," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack opined. "I bet even with the gold membership they will still save a fortune compared to going with closed source competitors."
Indeed, "it's completely expected," agreed Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project. "Embedded space is going more and more towards Linux."
On an airplane recently, Travers saw "one of those personal entertainment systems that allows you to watch movies, etc., and listen to music through headphones," he told Linux Girl. "I watched with great amusement as it displayed a Linux kernel panic message and promptly rebooted."
'It Means There's No Stopping Linux'
Embedded entertainment systems have actually been "a strong area for Linux for quite some time," Travers pointed out. "This is hardly a new frontier, but rather a logical expansion of where Linux has been going for quite a while."
At the same time, of course, "this is a win for Linux," he added. "It demonstrates continued strong performance in this market and continued viability for Linux here."
Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza took a similar view.
"This one is almost too easy, but I'll go there anyway," Espinoza said. "Obviously it means there's no stopping Linux."
'A Great Tool for Embedded Systems'
Blogger Robert Pogson's first car was a Toyota, he told Linux Girl.
"It used analogue computers and I could pry a module apart, make some measurement and replace parts with a soldering iron," he recounted. "Times have changed and Toyota has long ago seen the benefit of digital computers and control systems."
Linux is "a great tool for embedded systems, communication, documentation, navigation, control, logging, monitoring and entertainment," Pogson explained. "Toyota is wise to rely on such well-tested and open standard software to improve the bottom line, increase performance and to make their vehicles more attractive to consumers."
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Thoughts on Technology blogger and Bodhi Linux lead developer Jeff Hoogland said he hopes the news means that Toyota will "be contributing to FOSS some. At the very least I think it is a sign that Meego will be appearing at some point as an in-car operating system.
"Here is to hoping Meego can eventually give the pseudo-Linux Android a run for its money," Hoogland added.
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, however, wasn't so sure about the contribution part.
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"Linux makes sense to a large industrial manufacturer, as they get anything they want for free and can afford to pay a team of developers to keep their own fork," hairyfeet explained.
"The problem is, very few of these companies really give anything back," he added. "It is like how GE took that big bailout and said, 'Thank you America!' and then promptly sent their best jobs to India."
That, in turn, "is why Linux really does need a 'free for NON-commercial use' clause, so that those with big pockets actually have to throw a few pennies in the jar," hairyfeet concluded.
No 'ToyotaBackOrifice2012.EXE'
Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a lighter view with a list of the top 10 reasons Toyota chose Linux over Windows:
10. "Your Toyota will run; ToyotaBackOrifice2012.EXE won't."
9. "No revalidating your software license because you upgraded your radio, added an aftermarket DVD player, or replaced your spark plugs."
8. "If your battery goes dead and you get your car boosted, you don't have to wait five minutes for the system to finish booting, and another half hour while it runs a disk and virus scan."
7. "If your computer goes dead, you can always get a used one from a scrap yard without voiding the OS license."
6. "Open source means that the next time your Toyota refuses to stop when you step on the brake pedal, you don't have to take their word for it that it's not a software problem."
5. "'You got root on your car? You go girl!' as opposed to Windows, where Sony Music roots YOU!"
4. "No 'A hardware device (turn signal) has requested a left turn. Accept? Cancel.'"
3. "You can drive your Toyota on Tuesdays, instead of sitting there while '27 important system updates are downloading. Please wait while the updates are installed and the system reboots.'"
2. "No 'Update failed. System unbootable. Your current hardware configuration is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a newer Toyota. Press any key to exit.'"
1. "To change the temperature of your air conditioning using Windows Automotive 8, select Control Panel, then Hardware Devices, then Air Conditioner. Next select either the Driver tab, Front Passenger tab, or Rear Passengers tab. Now choose Cooling options, and from the dialog select Change Temperature. Adjust the slider to the desired temperature, select the cooling mode or accept the default, then select either 'Save settings permanently' or 'This time only' from the dropdown, then select either Apply or Cancel. Select 'Yes' when asked to confirm the changes, and then 'Yes' at the 'Allow system changes' prompt. WARNING: Do not select 'Remove hardware device' unless the vehicle is parked and the engine is off -- serious injury or death can result from air conditioners being forcibly ejected at highway speeds.'"


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The war on smartphones at concerts and other live events seems unending.
In the latest salvo, the art-punk trio called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs tried to keep smartphone-using fans at bay at a recent New York City Webster Hall concert, according to a report first carried by Spin and later the L.A. Times.
"Please do not watch the show through a screen on your smart device/camera," read the sign at the concert. "Put that...away as a courtesy to the person behind you and to [band members] Nick, Karen and Brian. Much love and many thanks! -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs."
According to Spin, performer Karen O made the request during the concert at the top of the second song, and allowed the crowd to take photos for a few more minutes. Then she asked fans to put their devices away and gestured holstering a phone.
The concert went on for 16 songs, with what Spin reported were a few violators. The music website also tweeted about the sign and got a "massive and overwhelmingly" supportive response to the band's request.
There doesn't seem to be a regular policy for using smartphones and devices at live rock and punk venues, although movie theaters and classical concert halls regularly warn smartphone users to shut off their devices and request users to leave if they continue to texting or otherwise use their devices.
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The problem is that when they tout the growth and size of SaaS and its wide adoption, they refer to billions of dollars in revenue which includes all variations of SaaS.
So here is my point - either go with a "purist" SaaS definition and accept SaaS as a relatively small niche market today with limited adoption or expand your definition to include different SaaS models. Don't mix and match.
Related posts:
- Stuart Launchlan on Oracle & SaaS
- Phil Wainewright on Oracle & SaaS (SaaS momentum)
- Vinnie Mirchandani on Charles Phillips and SAP
- Dennis Howlett on SaaS momentum
Mukund makes an excellent point in the comments that multi-tenant model of SaaS delivery is a preferred architecture - and I agree that it is, for many applications. I don't argue in my rant that multi-tenancy is unimportant or irrelevant- in fact, quite the contrary, I am of the opinion that it is the most suitable model for many ISVs and has several architectural and business beneefits. My argument is with the attempt to restrict the definition of SaaS to only one model and yet continue to conveniently include other models when it helps SaaS puritanism proponents make their point.
Update 2:The post has elicited a series of responses. Phil Wainewright asks "So who exactly is trying to have it both ways?" in his post on ZDNet and argues against my viewpoint - even though I think that he and I agree on a lot of things as I mention in my comment on his blog including the importance of multi-tenancy. Bob Warfield doesn't take sides but points to what he considers the more important issue of economics (than architecture) . Sinclair Schuller follows up with his post asking Are there REALLY multiple strategies for SaaS ISVs?
This is turning out to be pretty interesting conversation. What do you think about the so called purist vs. realist SaaS debate? Do you think that there is only one true blue SaaS architecture that qualifes as SaaS?


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It's not everyday you get invited to see a keyboard made out of wood, but today was one of those days. And when you do get the call to see a keyboard made out of wood, you'd be pretty silly to turn it down.
The idea behind the Orée Board is to provide tablet owners with something a bit different to pair with their devices. As funny as that sounds, it made sense to us. Plastic is, after all, a pretty boring material, and with tablets becoming more and more popular, people want something light, portable and different. After all, there are no prizes for pulling out the same generic lump of plastic.
The keyboard is Bluetooth, so it's compatible with a wide range of devices, and uses a 3.0 chipset, which gives exceptional battery life, as well as being a lot more reliable than older chipsets. That's important, because the last thing you want is an unreliable keyboard.
We have to say that the keyboards themselves are very impressive. They're hewn from a single piece of wood, using a secret production process. The keys are laser etched, giving them a real depth, as well as a darkness that makes the letters more visible. We were told the process is being altered as we speak, to give the letters a slightly darker tone on a maple model.
The trees are from a place in the French Alps called Jura, and the wood itself comes from trees that grow above a certain altitude, this is how the company gets the high-quality wood it needs to make these keyboards. Much of the building is done by machines, but to get the perfect finish each must be finished and assembled by hand.
We asked the obvious question too: "Will there be a mouse?" Julien, the founder, wouldn't be drawn, but he did tell us there would be more wooden objects coming, and that there were plans to launch several different devices each year. You can guess what they might be - we can see tablet cases and all sorts with matching materials.
There's also a protective case being developed. Details were a little scarce, but we were promised it would look good, and help support a tablet too. We were also keen to find out how the keyboards were protected from dirt and wear. The answer is that they are varnished with a subtle finish, which is mostly invisible but that should keep the keyboards looking fresh for a long time.
We tested the keyboard and found that it was a very pleasant experience. Pairing was no problem at all, and the typing was actually very nice. Orée tells us that this is aimed at tablet users, and we usually find those tablet-specific keyboards to be a bit lacking, and certainly not capable of high-speed typing, but the Orée was different, and we actually managed to get our typing speed up to normal levels. Impressive stuff.
Indeed, much of this article was written on the Board, and we have to say, we're a lot more impressed than we expected to be.
The Boards cost 125 euros each, which works out at about £100 at current exchange rates. Business is starting to pick up, so if you want one, you might need to get an order in now, or you'll be waiting a while. We'll have a review as soon as we can get hold of one to test longer term.


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After your drills and preparation, we take you out to the lounges, bars, clubs, malls, coffee shops and demonstrate what the "perfect approach" looks like... so you can model the right habits and start getting scarily good at meeting women right away.
I want to warn you that you may be talking to hotter girls than you've met your entire life... AND having them be fully 100% attracted to you and making out by the end of the night... maybe even taking them home!
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I'm not sure what I could do to make it any easier.
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transformation like these students:
So right now you really have one of three choices...
First, you can just give up and decide things are going to be the same for the rest of your life.
That means if you're not getting dating much now... then you accept you probably won't have much choice in women for the rest of your life...
In anything in life, if you don't work at it, you don't improve things. This means you might get married at some point, but it probably won't be to someone you really love, and definitely not someone you're very attracted to. (This is actually the case with many if not most marriages, tragically).
The second choice is to try to do this all yourself...
Go to the bars and clubs five nights a week, suffer through brutal and punishing rejection, and get better inch by inch... or just fail and end up giving up anyway. I have to tell you that almost everyone who goes this path alone ends up failing.
And I'm no exception.
If I didn't have a number of amazing coaches and if I hadn't gone to tons of seminars and bootcamps myself, I would probably be close to where you are right now.
Even worse than that, you could build up horribly bad habits by trying to do this yourself and not having someone there to correct you.
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A career in government enables UCLA Law graduates to gain substantive experience while serving the public and strengthening our communities. The Office of Career Services, together with the Office of Public Interest Programs, provides expert guidance to students pursuing federal, state and local opportunities. In addition to working closely with individual students on job strategies, we host panels with government lawyers throughout the year.
Our annual Government Reception and Information Fair allows students to network with more than 20 government entities, including representatives from the FBI, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Federal Public Defender, the U.S. Secret Service and many more. Together with the Office of Public Interest Programs, we also host the annual Southern California Public Interest/Public Sector Career Day, which draws the participation of many local, state and federal government entities.
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- Click Web Hosting.
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Fireworks are illegal in Ireland but using Fireworks for celebrations is becoming common place.
Here are some tips you can do for your pets on nights like New Year's Eve, Halloween, St Patrick's Day, etc.
Don't keep pets outdoors when Fireworks are going off and ensure that they have a safe, quiet place inside where they aren't frightened by all of the noise and where they cannot escape through the constantly open door. For everyone's safety, it's best to keep animals inside a bedroom or family room, away from all the commotion. Try and make sure that the pet isn't left alone if it's distressed but if your pet looks for reassurance due to being scared of loud noises, please don't do this! I know it goes against our humane nature, but it's best to carry on in a matter of fact manner, as if nothing is out of the ordinary, as your pet may feed off your anxiety, making the situation worse.
If your pet gets very scared from fireworks talk to your vet as there is a variety of treatments and medications that can help. Don't wait until the fireworks are going off to talk to your vet as some products need time to work, ie they take a week for the pet to feel the effects. A new product on the market for anxiety and sound phobias is the Thundershirt. These shirts exert constant, gentle pressure on the dog, causing relaxation. You can also buy cd's to help your pet get used to loud noises like fireworks but these need to be used prior to any fireworks going off.
Do make sure that rabbits and other caged animals are safely secured in a garage or outbuilding, away from the sight and sound of fireworks. As an alternative, the cage can be covered with thick fabric to muffle the sound, making sure there is sufficient ventilation. Horses should be securely stabled or moved to a different location during fireworks displays in the area.
Do ensure that pets always have effective identification. The DSPCA recommends that you have your pet microchipped and ensure that it is wearing a collar with identification in the event that it escapes from the house. Every year we get calls and visits from upset owners with lost pet information as their pets have run off after being scared by fireworks. The DSPCA will Microchip your pet for you or any vet practice can arrange this quickly and easily. You can read more on what to do if your pet goes missing here.
Don't ignore animals in need. Report animal abuse and neglect immediately to An Gardai Siochana or contact the DSPCA at 01-499 4700


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Hot storage technologies for 2012
These six cutting-edge storage technologies are ready for prime time, and can help transform your data center.
- Storage Media Group Editors
These six cutting-edge storage technologies are ready for prime time, and can help transform your data center.
By Andrew Burton, Rich Castagna, Todd Erickson, John Hilliard, Rachel Kossman, Sonia Lelii, Ellen O'Brien, Dave Raffo, Francesca Sales, Carol Sliwa, Sue Troy
What makes a storage technology "hot"? In our book, anything new that makes storing your company's data a faster, better or more efficient process is worthy of the "hot" label. But it must also represent a new approach to dealing with nagging issues. Essentially, it has to be the answer to the question, "If they can send a man to the moon, why can't they . . .?"
We found six technologies that can store massive amounts of data effortlessly, perform at lightning speeds, turn old assets like tape and server disks into something new, and put the cloud within reach of enterprise data centers.
Not quite hot (yet)
Global backup deduplication
The experts all say this is a great technology for jacking up dedupe ratios, load balancing and scaling. But two incorrect perceptions have slowed its adoption: it's only for large-scale environments and you don't really need it, especially if you use specific targets to back up individual applications such as Microsoft Exchange or SharePoint. Don't believe it. We think it will become a must-have feature as users build up their dedupe environments.
Mobile device backup
This may be a technology waiting for the market to materialize. Many backup apps now have mobile backup capabilities, including CommVault's and Symantec's, and there are specialized apps from the likes of Copiun and Druva, along with plenty of cloud backup services. But maybe you have higher priorities right now or your users haven't demanded it, so you're not going to sweat a few lost laptops. Get a grip; with millions of smartphones and tablets finding their way into corporate data systems, it's not going to get any easier (see "Mobile backup: There's an app for that").
Primary storage deduplication
We said it was hot in 2009 and again in 2010, but performance concerns and the continuing debate over its usefulness have stolen some of its sizzle. Target deduplication providers have yet to embrace the technology due to concerns over performance degradation. And its usefulness in primary storage is still being debated. We thought Dell's acquisition of Ocarina Networks, IBM grabbing Storwize and Hitachi's buyout of BlueArc (with its OEM deal with Permabit) would spark interest. Not yet.
As usual, our hot techs mix equal parts of cutting-edge cool and practicality. Object-based storage throws out tradition and replaces file systems with a simplified flat-file approach to managing data. Linear Tape File System goes the other way and adds a file system to tapes to make them look like disks. Both are timely arrivals on a storage scene that's beginning to buckle under the weight of too much data.
With multi-level cell (MLC) flash storage the medium is the message as rapidly developing technologies have turned this relatively inexpensive type of solid-state storage into an enterprise mainstay. But even as flash hogs the headlines, server-based storage is making a comeback with innovative ways to share directly attached assets.
Last year we predicted that cloud storage services would emerge, but this year we're putting a finer point on that prediction and singling out two technologies that will make it easy to integrate on-premises systems with cloud-based storage resources that essentially treat the cloud as just another tier.
1. Object-based storage
Network-attached storage (NAS) isn't the only way to handle file storage. It's not even always the best way.
Object-based storage systems are gaining a lot of attention and starting to make inroads as an alternative to scale-out NAS. Object storage has unlimited scalability, is less reliant on processing and high-speed networks, and is a fundamental building block of public and private cloud storage.
But it's not perfect. Object storage generally isn't a high-performance technology and it lacks the standardization of file systems, making it tougher to move from one vendor's object storage system to another. It's also poorly suited to data that frequently changes, and often eats up more storage capacity than traditional data storage. But the technology makes it possible to archive huge datastores cheaper, with less power and within a smaller footprint than high-performance NAS.
Object storage uses unique identifiers to access data instead of physical addresses. The data is accessed based on the name and unique ID; the storage system reads the metadata and object ID. There's no need for a single global namespace, cache coherency or high-speed networks.
Object storage products are sold by a mix of established vendors and innovative startups. Products from established vendors include EMC Atmos, DataDirect Networks Web Object Scaler (WOS), Dell DX Object Storage, NetApp StorageGrid and Rackspace OpenStack. Products from startups include Amplidata AmpliStor, Basho Riak, Caringo CAStor, Cleversafe Slicestor, Mezeo Cloud Storage and Scality Ring.
"Objects let you have a shared-nothing architecture where every node and controller mechanism doesn't have to know where every piece of data resides," said Andrew Reichman, principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. "You can scale bigger for cheaper. As we talk more and more about massive multi-petabyte repositories of data, that scalability gets relevant."
Object storage's characteristics -- particularly its scalability, location independence and accessibility via HTTP -- make it well suited for storage clouds. The metadata allows administrators to apply rules that can deliver built-in multi-tenancy, encryption and chargeback. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Microsoft Azure and Nirvanix Cloud Storage are storage clouds based on object storage.
Other uses for object storage include archiving (particularly medical images) and file storage that scales to multiple petabytes.
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland turned to Amplidata to help digitize more than 5,000 hours of video archives from the Montreux Jazz Festival dating to 1967. When the project began two years ago, Alexandre Delidais, EPFL's director of operations, said he couldn't find a disk storage system that met his needs and price point. EPFL bought LTO tape and continued to search.
Delidais said he was looking for storage that could scale to petabytes with low energy and power consumption, had faster restore times than tape and fit his budget.
"Nothing was really available with those requirements," he said. "We couldn't find a disk-based technology; they were all too costly or used too much energy."
Delidais discovered Amplidata AmpliStor in late 2010. EPFL bought 1 PB of storage to start, and will split that between two locations and replicate. Delidais said he's approximately 20% through his digitization project.
Of course, there still aren't that many multi-petabyte storage implementations, so object storage isn't yet mainstream.
"Not a lot of buyers really need hundred-petabyte repositories now," Forrester Research's Reichman said. "But it seems to me the long-term outlook will be object storage. It's a better way to do file storage."
2. MLC flash storage
The signs are everywhere that MLC NAND flash will continue its upward trajectory next year and officially overtake higher-cost single-level cell (SLC) flash in enterprise systems, ushering in a new era of more affordable solid-state storage.
Not quite hot (yet)
"Big data"
Hard to tell if it's hot or not when we can't even agree on a definition. Does big data mean humongous files, complex data sets or just the massive amounts of unstructured data organizations deal with? All of the above, it seems, and it's all great fodder for the hype machine. There are some real products out there and more vendors are gearing up to release products, but right now it's still mostly hype.
Bundled storage stacks
It wasn't hot last year, and it isn't hot now. Why aren't they more popular? Follow the money or, more specifically, how much it takes to get one. EMC and Hewlett-Packard offer product bundles with pre-configured storage, server, and networking gear and software. NetApp gives you the directions on what to buy and how to assemble it (put tab A into slot B). Either way, it's going to cost you. Not many companies can justify the expense and vendor lock-in these days.
Storage for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Virtual desktops promise simplified management, support and security. What they don't promise is enough return on investment (ROI) when you figure in storage requirements, which can be pretty tough when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of desktops. Solid-state storage might be the answer, but it's a costly solution.
Manufacturers have ramped up production of MLC-based solid-state drives (SSDs), and even major storage vendors that were once hesitant to use them are joining the ranks of earlier adopters such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC predicts that MLC-based drives will command 52% of enterprise solid-state revenue next year and climb to 60% in 2013.
Jeff Janukowicz, research director of solid-state storage at IDC, said MLC-based SSDs have reached a point where they're better able to handle the read/write mixes that traditional IT requires, thanks to advancements in their architectures, algorithms and controllers.
Online marketplace eBay Inc. turned heads this year with its 100 TB deployment of Nimbus Data Systems Inc.'s S-class solid-state storage, which uses a more industrial-strength flash variant known as enterprise MLC (eMLC).
One of the main distinctions between the different types of flash is endurance. The consensus is that SLC wears out after approximately 100,000 erase/write cycles, eMLC at 30,000 erase/write cycles and MLC at 10,000 or less. But the differentials are becoming less important as the MLC drive and third-party controller vendors make improvements.
"These controller manufacturers have found that they can actually watch the flash's behavior, and as long as they keep track of every single block and how it performs, they can use certain blocks well beyond the 10,000 limit and up into the hundreds of thousands of uses," said Jim Handy, founder and chief analyst at Object Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
Even the erase/write differential between eMLC and MLC is starting to become less of an advantage, and eMLC doesn't appear to be gaining the level of popularity the industry expected, according to Handy.
"eMLC costs more than MLC and it's slower," he said, "and since everybody is buying SSDs for speed, a slower solution is a really tough sell."
Dan Mulkiewicz, IT director at Carlsbad, Calif.-based High Moon Studios, a division of Activision Blizzard Inc., which produces popular video games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Guitar Hero," said even the least expensive MLC SSDs have performed impressively.
High Moon started with 10 MLC-based SSDs nearly three years ago in workstations, and soon added another 60 or 70 after application build times dropped from 30 or 40 minutes to four minutes.
"I had to come up with a cheap solution, and we took a chance, and it paid off," Mulkiewicz said, noting that SLC flash never became a consideration.
He said the failure rate on the workstations' MLC drives was less than 5%, and manufacturer warranties have improved from a year to three years, comparable to that of hard drives.
So, Mulkiewicz had no qualms using an MLC-based cache from GridIron Systems Inc. to address an I/O bottleneck with his VMware server farm. Mulkiewicz was impressed with the dramatic performance boost. In worst-case scenarios, programmers and artists once waited 70 minutes for the code to recompile after they submitted a change. With the MLC-based cache, the wait fell to less than 10 minutes.
"We're not only comfortable with [MLC] now," Mulkiewicz said, "we're dependent on it."
The Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is expected to help usher in a tape renaissance. It's the first technology that lets users search for information on tape via a file-tree directory, making the process similar to searching disk storage. Users can drag and drop files to and from a mounted LTFS formatted tape, opening up new possibilities for incorporating tape into workflows and making long-term archival easier.
LTO-5, the first tape format to support LTFS, has media partitioning so a drive can write two variable-length partitions on each tape. One partition has a self-contained hierarchical file system index and the second holds the content. LTFS presents a file-structure-type interface for managing the files on tape. All a user has to do is load the tape into a drive and the data can be viewed by a browser or any application that has a tape attached to it.
HP and IBM are the main developers of LTFS software, and the LTFS open standard is supported by the LTO Consortium. HP supports LTFS in HP StoreOpen Automation, while IBM released support for LTFS for libraries last May with its IBM System Storage LTFS Library Edition. Other companies have delivered support for LTFS, such as Crossroads with its StrongBox device and Cache-A offers LTFS capability with its flagship Pro-Cache5, Power-Cache and Prime-Cache5. In addition, Atempo is now fully compatible with the LTFS platform when using Atempo Digital Archive (ADA), a file archiving product.
LTFS is still in the early adoption phase, with media and entertainment as its sweet spot. Robert Smith, founder of 2PopDigital.com, which provides editorial system support for post-production in the media and entertainment industry, said LTFS will hit the mainstream when more archiving management software supports the open standard.
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"It will be the catalyst to using LTFS," he said. "Then you can see what's on the tape instead of depending on a database that's telling you by the tape number or barcode. If you have LTFS, you can search for a file the same way you do in a file system. LTFS has lots of benefits in that regard."
Randy Kerns, storage strategist at Boulder, Colo.-based Evaluator Group, said the media and entertainment industry has the most immediate need for LTFS because of the requirement to transport data more efficiently. He said archiving management software can be layered on top of LTFS so users can input retention periods and data access controls -- the technology will go mainstream once more archive management software supports it. "It's really a managing archive rather than a collection of backups," he said. "Companies have another alternative with tape that's more functional than just doing backups."
4. Cloud gateway appliances
Cloud gateway appliances are garnering attention as a great way to introduce cloud storage into an organization. These devices are easy to set up and relatively inexpensive, and users can start small and scale up easily.
The premise of a cloud gateway is simple: the appliance installs in a data center and acts as a bridge between on-premises storage systems and a cloud storage service. The bridge is required because public cloud storage providers rely on Internet protocols such as REST APIs over HTTP rather than conventional storage-area network (SAN) or NAS protocols. By connecting on-premises storage to the cloud via a gateway, the cloud storage service can seamlessly integrate with existing systems.
Although the adoption rate of cloud gateways is still relatively modest, a number of products have been released in the last two years and the attention they've received, along with their potential to grab market share, is what has landed them on our Hot Technologies list.
"There's a huge interest in moving data to the cloud and I don't think there's any risk tolerance for user companies to deal with cloud provider APIs," Forrester Research's Reichman said. Within the cloud storage market, there's a need for improving local performance, mitigating extra latency issues and adding security features.
"Those are some of the key attributes of cloud gateways that I think will make them big enablers for user companies to use cloud storage," he said.
Cloud gateways can be integrated or combined with other products, and some vendors have already set up partnerships with backup and storage virtualization vendors; for example, TwinStrata is partnering with Veeam and DataCore, while StorSimple has joined forces with Microsoft. The challenge is that many users are unaware of cloud gateways and their benefits.
"I think cloud gateways will find a home eventually as users get more comfortable with cloud storage technology. I see them getting more embedded and leveraged as cloud storage appliances," said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
Some industry experts expect data storage vendors will build this technology into their arrays if the concept catches on. That would make it easy for onsite storage systems to treat a cloud storage service as simply another storage tier without having to take an intermediate step.
"I think the jury is still out as to whether this should be a fully separate product and a fully separate vendor, or if what we're really talking about is a feature of other products," Forrester Research's Reichman said.
Another factor that has slowed acceptance of gateways is that the vendors offering these products are mostly startups.
"It's going to take some market education and probably some effective partnering on the part of those smaller vendors to really get their product to be considered by buyers," Reichman noted.
Taylor Higley, director of information services at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), recently deployed TwinStrata's CloudArray cloud gateway. When asked why he chose a TwinStrata gateway, his answer was simple.
"Really, it was the ability to leverage cheap Amazon S3 storage but still have the security and reliability of Veeam's Backup & Replication system," he said. "TwinStrata was the missing piece to make it all work."
5. Virtual storage appliances
With server virtualization firmly entrenched in data centers, server-based shared storage is making a significant mark in the form of virtual storage appliances (VSAs). These software-based systems enable the advanced capabilities of server virtualization without expensive, dedicated storage hardware. They run inside a virtual machine (VM) and create shared storage from the storage attached to the physical server a VM runs on. In 2012, we expect to see more companies -- especially small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) -- turning to server-based storage as an inexpensive way to support server virtualization.
Virtual storage appliances -- such as HP's StorageWorks P4000 VSA Software and DataCore's SANsymphony -- have been on the market for a number of years, but VMware Inc.'s rollout of its vSphere Storage Appliance is expected to inject more interest into this tech. vSphere Storage Appliance, which is targeted specifically at SMBs, runs across multiple hypervisors, aggregating direct-attached storage (DAS) into pooled storage.
"We're going to see incredible evolution happen inside the virtual infrastructure by . . . vendors like VMware," said Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director of validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group. "And the virtual storage appliance technology coming out for VMware . . . [is] just one more very innovative technology from one of the hypervisor vendors, and storage vendors better be reading between the lines."
Others see VMware as leveraging its skill set in virtualization to broaden its technology's appeal to more companies. "I think that VMware sees storage as a stumbling block keeping people from expanding their server virtualization capabilities, and to some extent [VMware] has decided to take it in their own hands to try and fix it," said George Crump, founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland.
Virtual storage appliances make more sense for SMBs because they're based on iSCSI rather than Fibre Channel (FC).
"You don't find a whole lot of traditional businesses, traditional enterprises deploying VSAs," Taneja Group's Boles said. "If they're traditional enterprises, [and] they're doing some private cloud or public cloud stuff, you might find them deploying [virtual storage appliances] there."
One vendor with a big footprint in the virtual storage appliance market is DataCore, with its SANsymphony-V software, which virtualizes storage across pools of heterogeneous systems, turning commodity servers into SANs.
Barren County Schools in Glasgow, Ky., turned to SANsymphony-V after a server consolidation project. The IT department had consolidated 30 physical servers to four running 30 VMware VMs. It then replaced EMC SANs with two Dell servers running DataCore software.
"[The EMC system] didn't have the processes, the caching to do some of these more advanced features, so [the key] in looking at SANsymphony was the fact that they didn't care what hardware [was used]," said Cary Goode, district technology service specialist at the Barren County Technology Office.
Barren's IT department makes use of DataCore's high-availability mirroring capabilities, resulting in 10 TB of usable storage in high-availability mode for redundancy. "We can use an entire node because the other node has the exact same data in a live environment," Goode explained. "To get that out of a hardware system -- I can't even imagine what the price tag on that would be."
6. Integrated cloud backup
Cloud backup has been around as a consumer service for years, and it makes a good deal of sense -- keeping an offsite copy of data is pretty much disaster recovery 101. However, in the enterprise space a number of roadblocks have hindered widespread cloud backup adoption. One of the biggest issues limiting its acceptance was that it required an entirely new backup approach and a cloud-specific backup application. But that's changing, and a number of major backup software vendors now allow users to back up directly to the cloud.
CommVault Systems Inc.'s Simpana lets you back up to any cloud vendor that supports the REST protocol, such as Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Nirvanix or Rackspace. Symantec Corp.'s Backup Exec can back up to Symantec's cloud, while the firm's NetBackup has an option to back up to Nirvanix. EMC NetWorker can ship backup data to EMC Atmos-based cloud storage services.
"They're trying to promote this whole style of data protection to customers who don't have a second site where they might replicate data to," said Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at ESG.
Cloud integration with traditional backup products allows users to create onsite disk backups for fast restores, but rather than sending copies offsite on tape, they can now easily choose the cloud as an alternative for disaster recovery. In the event a large amount of data must be restored from the cloud, many services can ship data on an appliance or disk to a customer site. Other users might see it as an archiving tier, sending older data to the cloud for long-term retention.
Some data storage managers opt to continue to rely on somewhat outdated backup technologies mainly because switching backup products can be complicated. And there may be resistance to new data protection technologies because using them means adding a separate tool with the associated management requirements. But when cloud storage is so tightly integrated with a company's existing backup application, those apprehensions quickly disappear.
The addition of a cloud option to legacy backup tools may be just the push that some firms need to give cloud backup a shot. Another backup technology -- continuous data protection (CDP) -- provides a good analogy. As a standalone product, CDP saw little adoption, but when it was integrated with backup software products that users were familiar with, it went mainstream.
"Backup and long-term retention use cases are good examples of where IT organizations can dip their toe into the cloud pool," Whitehouse said. "It's replacing the need to create tapes and ship those tapes offsite."
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