Georgiana Comsa

Pivot3 and Mirasys announced that they have joined forces to bring the benefits of their combined open-platform video solutions to the European market. The two companies will collaborate to simplify configuration, integration and support of large-scale surveillance systems, bringing the latest video management software combined with the most advanced integrated server and storage platform to their European users. “Mirasys has been recognized as a technology leader in high-resolution, high-definition video surveillance,” said Jukka Riivari, CEO of Mirasys. “This partnership with Pivot3 is another signal to our customers that we are expanding our open-platform partner base to include leading-edge server and storage technologies. It will have immediate and significant benef... (more)

Storage Virtual Appliance for High-Availability Environments

StorMagic is bringing to the VMware community the StorMagic SvSAN, a storage virtual appliance that helps small to mid-size organizations build a cost-effective virtual SAN in just a few minutes. The StorMagic SvSAN is designed to enable the deployment of a high-availability shared storage solution for VMware ESX environments for less than US$2,000, allowing users to take advantage of en... (more)

Welcome Spring to a Green, More Efficient Data Center

  We are all getting ready for Earth Day in one way or another. I taught my three-year old what goes in the recycle bin, and he is quite obsessed with recycling these days - in a good way, that is.  He is certainly doing his part, and I am also doing mine by sharing with you a new book with a very green cover and content to match any IT manager’s “green IT dreams.” I am talking about ... (more)

City of Trenton Uses Pivot3 High-Definition Storage for Their Security Needs

There have been more and more discussions in both IT and physical security publications around the use of storage technologies in the video surveillance market. The following is a great example of the use of clustered storage for video surveillance applications. It comes from Pivot3, a storage company with a strong customer base in public safety, homeland security, gaming, education, and... (more)