Storage Management News Roundup

This week Amazon announced the availability of Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications. Also noted in this Data Center Knowledge round-up is NetApp's new storage management integration for greater performance and scalability of VMware vSphere environments and recent news from VMware and Compellent.

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"VMware (VMW) announced VMware vSphere 4.1, the latest version of the award-winning VMware virtualization platform, as well as an expanded portfolio of virtualization management solutions. Features new to vSphere 4.1 include 2X larger resource pools with 3X the management power, up to 25 percent better performance and reduced cost per application, 5X faster virtual machine migrations for increased agility, new network and storage I/O controls deliver quality of service guarantees and increased performance through open integration with storage environments."

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