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EMC plans VMware integration for VFCache storage

EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.
EMC announces general availability of VFCache 'Project Lightning'

EMC has launched a product that combines flash and caching technology to improve the performance of applications.
Riverbed debuts Granite WAN accelerator technology

Riverbed Technology plans to make enterprise data centres look like local storage at branch offices with Granite, a new accelerator technology the company is announcing this week.
Nimbus announces E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage

Nimbus Data Systems has announced the new E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centres that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci warns disk storage shortages will continue

EMC CEO Joe Tucci offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap yesterday, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.
AMD replaces spinning drives with WhipTail flash storage

AMD?s System Optimisation Engineering Department has today announced plans to replace 480 of the 15K spinning drives in its datacentres with WhipTail solid-state storage arrays, in a bid to eliminate slow response times associated with traditional storage arrays.
Dell unveils new Fluid Data storage products

Dell is bulking out its storage portfolio under the Fluid Data architecture umbrella, with the announcement of four new products building on its acquisitions of Ocarina, Compellent and EqualLogic.
Computacenter helps Jaguar supplier deploy IBM SAN

Unipart Logistics, a supply chain service company that delivers parts for Jaguar cars, has been working with Computacenter to implement a new storage solution for the company enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Fusion-io claims drastic cut in flash memory latency

Fusion-io previewed a technology that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centres.
Alcatel-Lucent unveils 40G Ethernet modules for data centre strategy

Alcatel-Lucent this week rolled out 40G Ethernet modules for its top-of-rack data centre switches to help further its data centre fabric strategy.

Latest Features

A first look at Windows 8 - the OS for everything

The first public beta for Windows 8 is expected to be released in February, but we've been testing pre-beta code in our lab. Our overall impression is that Windows 8 represents an aggressive effort by Microsoft to deliver a single OS that runs just about everywhere and takes on all of Microsoft's key rivals.
Extending the life of your data centre

Bumping up against the life expectancy of your data centre? Use these best practices to delay a costly expansion.
Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Many data centres are up against the maximum electric power available to them from their utility. Others are facing management challenges: the amount of time to deploy new capacity and to manage existing capacity and systems. And gains made by virtualising and consolidating servers are often lost again as more gear is added in.
How Fibre Channel over Ethernet went from fee to free

With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free.
Hitachi vs Seagate vs Western Digital: Hard drive makers talk up new storage tech

In a reflection of the hard-fought battle among hard drive makers to get ahead of rivals, Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital this week talked up storage innovations, including a Hitachi drive that combines an optical platter with Micron's densest NAND flash memory and advanced hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate that hold up to 3TB of data.
Moving a data centre? Avoid these four career-limiting mistakes

Moving a data centre is a major undertaking for most organisations. And a successful move is a nice resume builder for any IT professional. A successful move will showcase skills in large-scale project planning, project management, technology integration and interpersonal communications. The process provides a chance for exposure across the company, as virtually every department is touched by the IT organisation (and affected by a data centre move) in some way.
Get smart with intelligent data storage

Storage that knows about the applications that use it can run much more efficiently, but at the the cost of increased complexity
M&A: What to do when your tech supplier is aquired

Having your primary tech vendor bought out can create lots of change in a hurry. Customers of acquired tech firms such as Foundry, EqualLogic and Sun share their concerns and advice.
Storage virtualisation: When to invest

Storage virtualisation adds to your costs, but if your goal is to manage your storage networks more efficiently, it pays off.
When will solid state drives be cheap?

Solid state drives (SSD) have been among the hottest hardware products for more than two years, with a good deal of uptake within the consumer PC, notebook and netbook markets in response to a precipitous drop in pricing in 2007 and 2008.

How-tos

How to transition IT infrastructure from physical to virtual

How to reuse your old virtual hosts

Case Study: Fauchier Partners hedges its storage bets on EqualLogic

Case Study: Overland: once bitten, nice try

Case Study: Admiral Insurance goes virtual

Case Study: IWOOT: Using open source to give you what you want

The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit

Case Study: CitiStreet ends tape reliance, cuts backup by 20-plus hours

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HP P4000 SAN: Affordable, Scalable, Reliable Storage

This ESG Lab Review documents the pay as you grow scalability and availability of the HP P4000 SAN. Topics explored include getting started with a Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), online upgrades to physical appliances, proven support for more than 150,000 Microsoft Exchange users, and hyper-redundant fault tolerance.
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Advanced SAN Design Using Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors

Cisco Systems® released the first-generation Cisco® MDS 9000 Family high-density, multiprotocol, intelligent storage area network (SAN) switches in December 2002. The switches offered intelligent features and functionality, with port densities higher than those previously existing in the Fibre Channel switching marketplace.
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Understanding Storage Service Management

IT organizations deliver various services to their business customers on a daily basis. For storage, IT must provide service based on various levels of access, redundancy, performance and replication. Unfortunately, their ability to manage the delivery of these storage services is limited by the device-centric nature of existing storage management applications.
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EMC RecoverPoint Support for Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap Service

Intelligent storage networks promise a new heterogeneous, flexible, and highperformance platform for hosting storage applications. EMC has delivered on this promise by using the Cisco® MDS 9000 Family SANTap Service, offering a fully heterogeneous fabric-based data replication solution without the need of a host agent.
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