NetApp unveils new design guides for building cloud storage offerings; HP and IBM now sell Emulex FCoE adapters; QLogic's 8100 Series CNAs gets certified by Cisco.

Symantec is planning on launching new software called Data Insight which will be integrated with the company's other products to link IT resources with data owners.

IBM extends its data deduplication; Dot Hill Systems ships next generation SAN series; Bus-Tech launches MDL VTL version 7; QourumLabs improves business continuity system.

In a deal worth $2 million, SGI acquired Copan Systems and has expressed its intentions of improving Copan's massive array of idle disks technology.

VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business, including solutions for managing and deploying servers and applications in a virtualized data center. The acquisition promises to establish VMware vCenter as the next generation management platform for private cloud infrastructures.

Until now, demand for educational content were mostly from Singapore, but with emerging economies and a rapidly increasing interest in storage technologies, there has been many requests for representation in other countries, particularly Malaysia.

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.

Pano Logic unveiled its Zero Client Reference Architecture, proving there is absolutely no processor in its device, and challenged other vendors claiming to offer zero client solutions to publish their own specifications.