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• Adaptec adds low-end SAS/SATA boards
  Goes RAIDing with smaller ROCs.
• Italian start-up offers cheap online backup
  So cheap, you will never delete another file, apparently.
• Brocade sports 8Gig Fibre Channel
  Fibre Channel death rumours are greatly exaggerated.
• HP reveals petabyte storage for enterprises
  Combines storage and server in one rack.
• Net monitors make Riverbed visible
  WAN optimisation gets consolidated for monitoring.
• Startup promises cheap virtual storage
  Using free disk space of standard PCs.
• Crypto drives locked with internal key
  UK startup nibbles at Seagate's monopoly.
• Xerox's PARC boffins show off new inventions
  Erasable paper and smart documents.

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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.
• 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?

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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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• 7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability ManagementNew
  

  Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.

• Business-savvy CIOs: Joining the senior leadership team.
  

  CIOs are joining the ranks of top management in record numbers. Accordingto results from IBM’s 2007 CIO Leadership Survey, 80 percent of CIOs havebecome valued members of their senior leadership teams.

• The outsourcing decision for a globally integrated enterprise.
  

  Globalisation and advances in technology have changed the way business gets done. Companies entering into outsourcing agreements expect to reduce costs and drive efficiency, but such commodity benefits are just the price of admission for today’s outsourcing agreements.

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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 New
  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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• 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.
• What's happening with ECM?
  Enterprise Content Management (ECM) seems to be a hot topic and we've been given the views of CYA's CEO, Wayne Crandall, on the current ECM situation.
• The BCS and the datacentre code of conduct
  Knowledgeable contributions from an organisation representative of many UK datacentre operators have been made to the EU-driven datacentre code of conduct working group.

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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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