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a look at what storage technologies might gather pace in 2010... or not.

Going forward in 2010, I would anticipate security spending to continue to be strong in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia – and more targeted to address the security risks that come with the deployment of new technologies within the enterprise.

We hear our customers talking about three areas that can make a positive impact on the bottom line in a major way: power-efficiency, virtualization, and cloud computing.

What lies in store for all of storage in 2010? What is the impact of the so called data explosion to business?

Everyday we create and collect millions (or billions) of data. In all of this, do we have any idea what to do with it? Does EMC know something we don't?

We all know we need a good disaster recovery plan or do we? Should we be thinking about a DATA recovery plan?

A review of the complexities of being truly green in the data center when it comes to protecting data.

M&A is the stuff of many a vendor strategy. In the tech industry, IBM has acquired 75 companies compared to 42 by HP. Once the envy of both, Dell has only made 10 since 2002. And its revenues have been on the slide for sometime now. Dell needs to buy another vendor to broaden its product portfolio. Who should it buy? EMC?

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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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
 
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.