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• HP takes LeftHand turn
  Buys SAN vendor for knock-down price.
• British firm claims to crack compliance headache
  Cstore avoids administrator loophole.
• Ocarina tightens up de-duplication technology
  Looking to expand customer base.
• Data centres get power-saving flash storage
  Chuck out DDR chips, urges Spansion.
• Buffalo LinkStation drive goes 'eco'
  Power-saving, Torrents, iPhone gubbins.
• Huge HP storage system starts to stream
  Where a terabyte looks small.
• SanDisk declines Samsung takeover bid
  Company undervalued, says CEO.
• Riverbed aims for more efficient storage
  Re-using existing technology.

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• Time to stop treating removable disks like tape drives
  Disks do more - they blend archiving, online backup and CDP, argues Tandberg Data, as it gives Backup Exec the push from its RDX line in favour of Yosemite's Filekeeper.
• Brocade deal to help drive data-centre transition
  Its acquisition of Foundry Networks brings together two technologies that are already heading for a merger, according to analysts.
• The lowdown on the Techworld product awards
  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.

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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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• The Instantly Responsive EnterpriseNew
  In this free white paper, learn how BPM and CEP together achieve a faster response to changing business conditions. Improve visibility and actionability, facilitate decisions, prevent policy violations, and more.
• Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java ApplicationsNew
  

  This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability.

• Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy Systems to a Service-Oriented Architecture New
  

  This free white paper reveals how to eliminate the risks of mainframe dependence by unlocking data and business logic trapped in legacy systems and making these services ‘first-class’ SOA citizens.

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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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• GoodSync Pro 7.2
  Synchronisation is the alternative to backup, but it is also a much more complex world. Does this program keep life simple enough?
• 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.

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• Server virtualisation rings iSCSI vendor's bell
  IP-based SANs are on the up - and it's all thanks to server virtualisation, argues Larry Cormier, of iSCSI storage developer LeftHand Networks.
• MAID to store - persistently
  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.

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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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