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03 July

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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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• 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.
• Smart array may signal storage shift
  The storage industry is fast turning evolution into revolution in rethinking its approach to disk drives.
• Cisco's IOS vs Juniper's JUNOS
  Juniper continues to grow, broaden into new markets and acquire companies, touting its single-operating-system approach to high-performance networking. Rival Cisco, on the other hand, seems to unveil a new operating system with each product launch, a practice that more and more makes the original version of IOS a distant memory. Who do you think is right?
• Why disk statistics can fail to satisfy
  Vendor hard drive failure rates: Myth or metric?
• WAN war breaks out over changed file formats
  A changed file format has sparked off a fierce war of words between users, WAN acceleration vendors and the software company involved.
• Backup strategy - virtualisation changes everything
  Enterprises have had long-standing approaches to backup, using methodologies that have been well-honed through constant use. But there's a new game in town; the arrival of virtualisation as a resource within organisations has meant that system administrators have had to change their thinking to accommodate the new technology.
• Enterprises warm to online backup
  Large businesses are looking more closely at online backup options as a way to ease systems administration headaches and avoid security concerns linked to physical backup procedures - is this the way forward?
• Dell announces EqualLogic's next box
  Dell has announced the first of its EqualLogic storage arrays, the PS5000, and said: "We're not done yet."
• NetApp trounces EMC in performance benchmark
  NetApp has gone and submitted its own EMC SPC-1 benchmark - EMC doesn't play in SPEC's benchmark arena - and trounced a CLARiiON CX3-40 array with its own FAS3040 in a block storage environment.
• Sun still in transition
  Sun has earned more profit from nearly flat second quarter revenues and its stage business is up 7-percent.
• Hulk and Maui - a recap
  Within the next five months EMC will announce its cloud computing storage products, code-named Hulk and Maui. What do we know so far about them?
• 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.
• EMC opens new front
  EMC has announced its enterprise online backup service. The utility storage model is becoming more and more substantial.
• Brocade's very big switch
  Brocade is announcing its largest, fastest and most flexible switch ever, the DCX, today. This new class of product is designed for datacentres chock full of virtual servers with applications needing access to both file and block data stored both locally and remotely.
• Seagate's delayed 250GB notebook drive
  Seagate has announced a 250GB 2.5-inch notebook drive but competitors are already at 320GB. Why is Seagate behind?

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