products & innovations
SPICEWORKS LAUNCHES FREE TOOL TO HELP IT
PROFESSIONALS TRACK AND MANAGE CLOUD SPENDING
Spiceworks has launched Cloud Cost Monitor, a free online tool that connects to IT
professionals’ Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services accounts to analyse and report on
organisations’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) costs and utilised resources.
The tool’s online dashboard displays a breakdown of an organisation’s IaaS
spending, including weekly cost trends that can be delivered as an email report. This
helps IT professionals identify and address any usage anomalies before their monthly
invoice arrives.
According to Spiceworks’ study, ‘Diving into IT Cloud Services’, only 25 per cent of IT
professionals believe cloud services are more cost effective than on-premises infrastructure,
potentially due to a lack of visibility in how their cloud services are being utilised and the impact
on monthly costs. Cloud Cost Monitor is designed to help IT professionals overcome the
challenges of keeping their IaaS costs under control by enabling them to track how their usage
and costs are trending over time.
IT professionals can set up Cloud Cost Monitor in less than five minutes to quickly
see their cloud computing, storage, database, and networking usage, track how their
service costs change over time, and identify cloud services that are unused or using too
much bandwidth.
For further information visit: www.spiceworks.com
Microsemi extends Flashtec
product line with NVMe controllers
Microsemi has announced the availability of its mainstream Flashtec NVM Express
(NVMe)2108 eight channel and NVMe2104 four channel controllers, enabling leading
enterprises and data centres worldwide to realise cost and power effective high capacity
solid state drives (SSDs).
The second generation PCIe devices extend Microsemi’s product line to mainstream
capacity, performance and power while maintaining architectural consistency and attractive
enterprise features from its current controllers.
The company’s two new devices offer eight and four channel PCIe NVMe controllers
capable of supporting capacities of greater than 7Tb, a DDR4 interface capable of
supporting 8Gb and higher, dual port, SRIS, end-end data protection and M.2 form factor
support using the four channel product.
In addition, the new devices enable reuse of firmware with existing Microsemi
NVMe controller customers, expanding support and making design cycles shorter.
The new Flashtec NVMe2108 and NVMe2104 controllers are optimised for
leading mainstream read/write performance. Since the controller performs all flash
management operations on-chip and consumes negligible host processing and
memory resources, it can also be used by customers for host based Flash Translation
Layer (FTL) implementations.
For further information visit: www.microsemi.com
IBM expands all-flash
storage offerings for
cloud and cognitive
computing
IBM has announced new, enterprise
class, all-flash storage designed to
provide small, mid-sized organisations
and global enterprises with primary
storage for cloud or cognitive
applications and workl