Tuesday 24 May 2011

SanDisk enters enterprise SSDs with Pliant acquisition

Survey: Big Firms Shunning Public Cloud Storage | Enterprise SSD testing spec released

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SanDisk enters enterprise SSDs with Pliant acquisition
The $327 million purchase of start-up Pliant Technology by flash memory giant SanDisk was a surprising headline to wake up to last Monday, not the least of which being the big purchase price. But there's a lot more to that story. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

Technology Fueling the Next Phase of Storage Optimization
ESG examines trends influencing the adoption of deduplication and the limitations of existing solutions and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its new HP StoreOnce deplication technology Read now

WHITE PAPER: Aerohive

Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free
Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now!

Survey: Big Firms Shunning Public Cloud Storage
A survey finds that few large corporations are adopting public cloud storage, even for their lowest tier of data. Read More

Enterprise SSD testing spec released
The SNIA has developed a specification that allows users to test solid-state drives from any vendor for their performance. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation

Best Practices for Data Performance on Storage Area Networks
Because SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system, SAN is unaware of file fragmentation and uable to solve this issue. Performance suffers. This white paper details in clear terms how, where and why Diskeeper data performance technology should be used to ensure maximum SAN performance and optimum data response time. Read more.

Intel sees opportunity from Asian data center boom
Intel's sale of chips and related products to data centers is growing by over 20 percent year-on-year in Asia-Pacific, on the back of increased data center capacity creation in China, South Korea, and Australia, a company executive said. Read More

Will cloud computing make traditional vendor relationships obsolete?
Network World has conducted multiple tests of cloud-based services over the past year, and our overarching conclusion is that shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become more flexible. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc.

Setting the Stage for the Next-Generation Datacenter
Learn how an Ethernet fabric-based network can help your company optimize its investments in virtualization and cloud technologies. A new IDC white paper reveals how fabric-based network architecture is the cornerstone for creating a more efficient, cost-effective way to move data through the network. Learn more!

Data centers, under strain, expand at furious pace
About a third to half of all data centers will be physically expanding or leasing new space in the next two years, according to recent surveys. Read More

How to transform your data center for cloud computing: an expert guide
Learn how to prepare your data center for the transformation to cloud computing. Read More

Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: what you need to know
Microsoft will soon let customers use their current licenses to move workloads to the cloud. Here's how it works. Read More

Sepaton releases remote office backup
Sepaton today announced a new remote office backup appliance that replicates data back to a central data center. Read More



SURVEY: Future-proofing the cloud
Where do you think cloud computing is headed? This survey enables you to share your views on some potential future events, trends and technology changes driven by cloud computing. By compiling the shared knowledge, opinions and insights of survey participants, everyone will get a clearer view on which changes and trends are more, or less, likely to actually occur. That knowledge will be invaluable in helping you shape your private, public and hybrid cloud strategy and plans for the future.Take the survey.

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