03 July 2009
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In accordance with Moore's Law, servers and IT systems are consuming more power and generating more heat which is causing data center power consumption and cooling costs to spiral. This Force10 Networks whitepaper shows how IT managers across the board are striving for ways to tackle the data center crisis.
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The number of cloud success stories is growing. The cloud is here, but where is it headed? What are the risks? And how can IT organizations prepare for the future? NetApp's Raymond Siow takes us through the three levels of cloud computing and offers three tips to becoming "cloud-ready".
Scalable and right-sized solutions that can grow with IT load offer the best opportunity to improve electrical efficiency, reduce energy costs -- and contribute ecologically.
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Recent research findings show where the areas of continuing technology investments are, despite – or because of – the economic downturn.
The cost of managing storage and the amount of storage enterprises have to manage continue to balloon. But the reality is that data decays in value over time. Yet, much of these data is retained -- often on expensive primary storage -- due to business and compliance policies or plain neglect.
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Combined with the new additions, Hitachi improves on operational efficiency and performance.
With little budget and rapidly growing storage demands, the City of North Canton, Ohio, school district turned to Coraid Inc.'s EtherDrive storage system built on the little used ATA over Ethernet (AoE) data transfer protocol.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport CIO William Flowers discusses keeping his SAN, NAS, backup, and disaster recovery process in flying shape.
Mimosa Systems' NearPoint Version 4.0 data archiving software adds a case management tool, federated search and new capture methods for ingesting data into the data archive.
NexentaStor offers a combination of enterprise class features and an open technology and business model that aims to end storage vendor lock-in.
Extreme Networks announced the availability of its Summit X450a family for sale with Dell EqualLogic SANs.
ProStor upgrades InfiniVault removable disk system with extra DR option; Mellanox rolls out 40 Gig InfiniBand switches; QLogic offers 10 Gig Ethernet (10 GbE) adapters.
Mimosa Systems NearPoint and LiveOffice Mail Archive team to combine on-premise email archiving with an archiving service; can they convince users that both approaches can coexist?
Pivot3 Serverless Computing iSCSI systems get RAID 6e protection and scalability, while Seanodes adds solid-state drive (SSD) support to its Exanodes iSCSI software.
Pixorial's video-sharing website combines virtualized Dell PowerEdge servers with Xsigo I/O Director and a dense, scalable SAN to add capacity and bandwidth dynamically.
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In the past 30 days, there has been a bidding war between NetApp and EMC. The target is Data Domain and the price is its Data Deduplication technology.
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At the heel of EMC's attempt to woo Data Domain with a cash offer at a 20% premium over NetApp's initial offer, Data Domain has announced that it's entering a new agreement with its original suitor.
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The open video-compression standard H.264 (or MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC), among other developments, offers new possibilities to reduce storage costs and to increase overall efficiency.
Download this mini-eguide to discover why unified storage has to be an important part of your enterprise storage strategy.
Singapore luxury hotel cuts data center space by 75%, and lowers power and cooling costs by 30% - with IBM BladeCenter and storage solutions.
The 26,000-member Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) needed to optimize its use of technology while reducing costs and improving efficiency. To achieve these goals, the institute leveraged an advanced storage architecture to improve system and application performance, particularly to its Membership Management System.
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Par Botes, chief technology officer, EMC Asia Pacific Japan, emphasizes the importance of planning in business continuity. A business continuity plan is only as good as the planning that goes into it.
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Recent research findings show where the areas of continuing technology investments are, despite – or because of – the economic downturn.
