products & innovations
REDUCE DATA CENTRE ASSET LIABILITIES WITH
HARTING’S HA-VIS RFID LOCFIELD ANTENNA
Harting has launched its Ha-VIS RFID Locfield
coaxial cable waveguide antenna.
Up until now it has been unrealistic
from a physical location point of view
to directly integrate even the most
compact passive RFID UHF patch
antennas into existing data centre
server rack arrays.
Typically, four antennas
would have to be
separately mounted either
side of the front of each
server rack, in both the upper and lower areas and
carefully positioned to ensure there are no gaps in the RF field coverage.
Harting’s Locfield antenna can be directly integrated, with insulating spacers, onto the rear
side of the front access door of each server rack. Only one of these Ha-VIS RFID Locfield
antennas needs to be fitted for a fully installed 45U sever rack. By fitting in an extended
S-shape design you can achieve the best possible RF field coverage of the complete rack.
In conjunction with a single reader which has the required power to match the correct read
distances, it can register passive RFID tags that provide specific item identification within a rack
and additional sensor functionalities, eg. detecting empty or occupied slots, thus minimising the
complete data centre system installation cost.
For further information visit: www.harting-rfid.com
Kingston Digital releases new entry level Data Center SSD
Kingston Digital has announced Data Center 400 (DC400) SSD, the latest solid state drive
to its range of enterprise solutions.
DC400 SSD is an entry level enterprise drive designed for server use in data centres
especially for customers who deploy a rip-and-replace strategy. It is ideal for read intensive
applications such as boot, web servers and lower data rate operational databases and
analytics – especially in data centre mixed workload environments where endurance and
reliability are important.
DC400 SSD offers superior quality of service for data centre customers whose
workload environment calls for sustained IOPS and consistent low latency. An expanded
onboard DRAM acceleration cache enables high, sustained IOPS to increase performance
over a wide range of read/write workloads. Standard as well as user adjustable
overprovisioning improves random IOPS performance and endurance while enterprise
firmware improves latency and delivers consistently low data access times under steady
state workloads. Additionally, DC400 SSD features enterprise class reliability with end-toend data path protection and firmware implemented power loss protection (‘pFAIL’).
For further information visit: www.kingston.com
Cloudian deploys
Amazon S3 compatible
on-premises object
storage, sold and
metered in AWS
Marketplace
Cloudian has announced that its
flagship software, HyperStore,
is now available through Amazon
Web Services Marketplace (AWS
Marketplace).
Customers can purchase
Cloudian software directly from
AWS Marketplace, deploy it in their
infrastructure and centralise visibility of
usage and billing through their AWS
monthly invoice.
The new service is available through
AWS Marketplace and subscribers can
select a Cloudian Amazon S3 Hybrid
deployment, providing all the features
of HyperStore’s object storage with
monthly usage based monitoring and
billing direct from AWS. Dynamic data
tiering at the bucket level from onpremises storage to cloud storage with
Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier allows
customers to scale as their needs grow.
HyperStore object storage is
a peer-to-peer software defined
platform that enables enterprises and
solution providers to build full-featured,
Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage
in a variety of capacities: on-premises,
utilising stand alone software; via
fully integrated Cloudian HyperStore
appliances; or via AWS Marketplace.
HyperStore’s multi-tenanted and multiinterface design can support many
applications on the same platform.
For further information visit:
www.cloudian.com
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