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• Buffalo ships low-cost crypto drive
  USB drive costs same as normal drive.
• Unstructured data poses security risk, survey finds
  Slack internal governance rules blamed.
• Unified archive pulls it all together
  No more separate archives.
• Microsoft and QLogic claim near-native performance for virtual apps
  But tests show that Hyper-V needs a hardware-accelerated SAN adapter for maximum speed.
• IDC counts the costs of storage power and cooling
  And it is set to become even more extreme.
• WildPackets takes aim at 10Gig networks
  Complex networks becoming mainstream?
• Nirvanix puts NAS in the cloud
  Serves NFS and CIFS over the Net. Nice.
• HP enters de-duplication fray with new tools
  Promises faster and easier backup.

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• The lowdown on the Techworld product awardsNew
  We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.
• Utility storage: Ready for a long haul?
  The distance between storage virtualisation and a utility-storage utopia is vast and full of what seem to be insurmountable challenges, as early adopters have discovered.
• More skirmishing breaks out on the AutoCAD front
  Just when it seemed as if a truce might be feasible, fighting has flared up again in the battle between the WAN optimisation vendors over just who can - or can't - accelerate the latest AutoCAD format for drawing files.

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• Box reduction
  Server virtualisation and a variety of storage technologies can help to significantly reduce the number of boxes in your datacentre. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise you'll arrive back at square one.
• How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 2)
  Simple process improvement can yield big results even in test and development. And since everyone has T&D operations, here's how to save a ton of money.
• How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 1)
  Simple process improvement can yield big results even in test and development. And since everyone has T&D operations, here's how to save a ton of money.

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• Demand and Supply in ITNew
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• Is FCoE the emperor's new trousers?
  Everyone involved is saying such nice things about it that a cynic might start to wonder where the catch is...
• Sun's ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstood
  With the NetApp-vs-Sun lawsuit and Apple's use of ZFS this new filesystem is getting a lot of attention.
• Reldata changes management gears and location
  Boris Anderer, Reldata's founder, president and CEO has stepped back to chairman to let fresh blood take on the CEO and presidential role.

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• Lordy, lordy EMC 
  Look what you have unleashed
• IBM's SVC = HDS's USP 
  No, really.
• IBM DS8000 to get flash SSD 
  Hint, hint, hint, hint

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• Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount
  A lovely rack with up to 4 Terabytes of storage in one SAN would once have cost and arm and both legs, but not any more. As ever, we hunt for the economies.
• Synology Cube Station NAS
  The size of a paint can, the CS407 houses 4TB of RAID 5 storage, speaks almost any file sharing protocol you might think of using, and its embedded Linux OS is open to additions; on the downside, its breadth of capabilities will tempt you to overload its somewhat meager system resources
• Yosemite FileKeeper Pro 2.8
  Reviewing backup software is usually a chore. There is a legion of products out there, some good, some very comprehensive but just too difficult to use. A few are awful, including some from supposedly big software houses. This one turned out to be very different.
• VMware ESX Server 3.5
  ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 build on the strong VI3 base to improve scalability and add key new management features. These evolutionary upgrades fill important gaps and ostensibly set the stage for the next big release, which may mark the advent of virtualisation as the rule in data centres, not the newcomer. VMware has plenty of work to do to get there, but the company's track record of solid, stable, production-ready releases continues intact with VI3.5.
• Seagate FreeAgent Go
  There are cheaper and faster portable hard drives out there, but what sets this one apart is the concept of the portable personal workspace. It's not perfect - nor is it the only way of providing such a thing - but it's certainly thought-provoking.

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• MAID to store - persistentlyNew
  Copan boss Mark Ward explains why hard disks are getting smaller, how persistent data differs from transactional data - and how his company can save storage space and power as a result.
• Isilon seeing healthy demand for clustered storage
  Isilon Systems has made a name for itself as a pioneer in the field of clustered storage systems. Now, the company feels that 2008 will be the year when unstructured data becomes a pressing issue for most enterprises.
• The big switch to utility computing
  Why Nicholas Carr, of IT Doesn’t Matter fame, thinks we are at the early stages of a fundamental shift in the nature of computing, which is what his new book is all about.

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• On the ball
  Asigra is now used by the Saints, a well-known rugby football club in Northampton. After a previous mishap an earlier tape-based backup scheme has been ruled offside.
• Protecting sensitive information in transit
  The City of London Police use biometric security-enabled Stealth MXP USB storage devices for sensitive information transfer, HMRC could learn from this.

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