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Informatica nabs Applimation for storage know-how

Informatica is to enhance its ability to manage and control increasing data volumes after it said it would acquire application information lifecycle management (ILM) specialist Applimation for $40 million (£28 million).
Automated archive eschews agents

Powerfile is claiming a big step forward in automated archiving with the release of its Archive Facilitator storage appliance. The company said the device saves primary storage, by automatically discovering and moving disused or inactive content to one of its Active Archive appliances.
Compellent tools up with San manager upgrade

Compellent has released a new version of its Storage Centre software. The latest release delivers drive-based tiered storage and thin data importing, which can cut the number of drives needed by 80 percent, the company said.
Surveyed users say storage vendors should provide greener products

Nearly nine out of ten IT departments think storage vendors should produce more energy-efficient products.
Oracle promises smooth path to 11g

Users of Oracle 9i and 10g databases will have a pain-free upgrade to 11g, the company has promised.
Xiotech's array gets SSD speed boost
Attune launches virtualising NAS
HP makes a storage splash
Google moves into storage field
3PAR promises automated data management

Latest Features

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.
Revving up its storage horsepower

HP is ramping up its storage business, blading virtually everything, and preparing a new product for massive scale out storage requirements.
Archiving has nothing to do with ?Dusty Vaults?

Archiving terminology seems to have been turned and twisted by a variety of interested parties, confusing the market and hiding its real benefits.
The dash for flash: SSDs get a flash boost

DRAM-cached flash memory solid state drives represent the high-performance end of the on-rushing solid state datacentre invasion. TMS' Woody Hutsell gives his views on what's happening in this leading/bleeding edge area.
Is Sun failing with StorageTek?

What is Sun up to with StorageTek?
HP goes BIO active

A greener and leaner HP is being formed. New EVA and Storage Essentials products coming. HP is consolidating for greener IT. But will DAT 160 see the light of day?
Will EMC's information gamble work?

EMC is building up a co-ordinated information infrastructure offering.
A slight adjustment to Njini's knitting

Njini has jumped aboard the File Area Network bandwagon to carve out a claimed competition-free zone for its IAM product.
Storage networkers tackle data issues

Some of the discussion you missed if you couldn't get to this month's Storage Networking World conference in Frankfurt.
Fibre Channel SANs: Final Days?

Is mainframe-like status approaching for Fibre Channel SANs?Important to enterprises but irrelevant to everyone else?

How-tos

How to automate data storage with tiering

Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 2)

Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 1)

Case Study: WHSmith builds 3-tier ILM all-EMC set-up

Case Study: SNIA's lab proves storage can interoperate

Case Study: Data centre gets star treatment

Case Study: Information lifecycle management and the SNIA

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Featured White Papers

Moving Beyond Information Life Cycle Management

CA is leveraging its management experience and broad technology portfolio to map out a strategy that extends information life cycle management (ILM) beyond storage, combining intelligent management of storage and data with other key management disciplines,such as security and asset management, to better support customer demands for operational efficiency. Our ILM strategy is driven by assets, people and processes and moves customers from a storage-centric view to one that encompasses IT as a whole.
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Another Year on in the ILM Journey

Quocirca conducted two surveys separated by 12 months that looked at the data management infrastructure of UK and Irish businesses and how this was linked to their ability to respond to the whims of the regulators. In the year between the two surveys a lot had changed.
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A Better Approach to Managing File System Data

Data growth continues to be a challenge for IT and storage administrators. The growth strains the resources of even the most robust IT organizations who must juggle the competing priorities of data access, cost-effective storage and legal and regulatory obligations. As a result, organizations are faced with substantially increasing data storage complexity. IT decision makers are constantly faced with decisions about what files to keep, where, and for how long. This white paper from EMC Software highlights proven software solutions that provide automated, policy-based data movement with transparent access for Windows, UNIX and Linux-based file systems, and describes a way to reduce costs, reduce risks and ensure compliant retention for file system data.
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Identity-Enabled Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) has long focused on the one-way migration of data from high-cost media to less-expensive storage options. Identity-Enabled ILM takes data management to a new level by introducing data access based on organizational identities and support for bi-directional information flow.
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Storage Resource Management

Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. Storage resource management (SRM) is both foundational to ILM and essential to its ongoing execution.
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