jhv1blz5 wrote: The article validated SOA as an IT architecture paradigm that can be leveraged in many ways. Taking data storage, scalability and application performance to a nifty level using SOA Application Grid infrastructure will no doubt enhance data and application performance on Oracle architecture platforms, it also has the promise of a cost effective and efficient IT delivery model. The very benefits of SOA.
Jul. 3, 2009 10:31 AM EDT






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3PAR, the utility storage company, says it’s got an integrated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for the VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) that will also scale VDI storage.
3PAR CEO David Scott says, “Many of our customers already use 3PAR strategically for their VMware deployments to achieve greater I/O performance to disk, increased capacity utilization, and reliable and affordable instant point-in-time copies of their data. With 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, organizations can now consider both server consolidation and centralized desktop management served from a single resilient utility storage platform.”3PAR’s utility storage is supposed to enhance the implementation of VDI on a traditional SAN by providing additional performance, simplified provisioning and rapid recovery while reducing required capacity. The widgetry builds on 3PAR Virtual Copy, the company’s snapshot software, to create a utility computing infrastructure that’s supposed to maximize the benefit of centralized desktop management. 3PAR says the Thin Copy Desktop offers high-performance desktop booting, automated provisioning, and rapid desktop recovery while consuming 90% less capacity for desktop images. Concurrent with the announcement, 3PAR upgraded the 3PAR Virtual Copy to support up to 128 read/writable snapshots per base volume and promote a child Virtual Copy snapshot to any of its read/writable parent snapshots. Up to 500 read-only snapshots per base volume is supported with these enhancements.3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI is supposed to create a maximum 128 virtual desktops from a single “golden desktop” image using little additional storage or bandwidth. Even when simultaneously booted, 3PAR says these virtual desktops consume only minimal additional bandwidth and storage resources than the golden image used to create them. 










