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EMC ships primary data reduction, FAST for solid-state drives (SSDs), unified management
EMC rolls out bevy of products previewed in May, including EMC FAST upgrade, Unisiphere and block compression for primary data reduction; promises native Fibre Channel over Ethernet by end of year.
Fibre Channel - Solid-state drive - EMC Corporation - Ethernet - Hardware
Fibre Channel - Solid-state drive - EMC Corporation - Ethernet - Hardware
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HP outbids Dell with $1.6 billion offer for 3PAR
Hewlett-Packard makes surprising $1.6 billion bid to wrest storage systems vendor 3PAR from its rival Dell; now industry watches to see if Dell will escalate bidding war with a counter offer.
Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Bid price - HP - 3PAR
Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Bid price - HP - 3PAR
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Akorri adds predictive analysis to storage resource management software
Akorri gives BalancePoint 3.5 a Predictor for Storage module that detects disk utilization and disk contention issues that can lead to an application outage.
Resource management - Business - Akorri - Industry-Specific - Disk Management
Resource management - Business - Akorri - Industry-Specific - Disk Management
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FalconStor uses solid-state drives, data protection to tackle VDI bottlenecks
FalconStor turns its NSS SAN Accelerator SSD gateway into a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) device by adding continuous data protection and other backup and recovery technologies for VMware environments.
FalconStor - VMware - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Storage
FalconStor - VMware - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Storage
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Mobile device management requires strict storage, security policies
IT administrators must acknowledge the importance of mobile devices as business tools and develop mobile device management policies to support and restrict their use.
Mobile device - Security - Device Management - Mobile Computing - Wireless Data
Mobile device - Security - Device Management - Mobile Computing - Wireless Data
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STEC improves MLC SSD; and other data storage news
STEC implements CareCell, SAFE technologies to improve performance and reliability of MLC SSD line; Samsung partners with Anobit; and other data storage news.
STEC - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Samsung Group - Storage
STEC - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Samsung Group - Storage
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Oracle sticks a fork in Illumos, OpenSolaris community
According to a leaked internal memo, Oracle won't cooperate with Illumos and OpenSolaris community; Nexenta CEO says this won't hinder ZFS storage development.
OpenSolaris - Oracle - Nexenta OS - Operating system - Oracle Corporation
OpenSolaris - Oracle - Nexenta OS - Operating system - Oracle Corporation
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Symantec, VMware team up for virtualization high availability
Working with VMware, Symantec launches ApplicationHA to protect critical applications such as Oracle and Exchange, and VirtualStore software-based NAS for quick storage provisioning.
Symantec - VMware - High availability - IPhone - ipad
Symantec - VMware - High availability - IPhone - ipad
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Dell acquires thin provisioning pioneer 3PAR to expand data storage product lineup
Dell's acquisition of 3PAR strengthens its Fibre Channel SAN platform; vendor has acquired thin provisioning, iSCSI, NAS, and primary data deduplication technologies over the past three years.
Fibre Channel - ISCSI - Hardware - Storage area network - Storage
Fibre Channel - ISCSI - Hardware - Storage area network - Storage
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New 6 Gbps flash SSD boosts Micron solid-state offerings
Micron Technology Inc.'s new flash SSD, the RealSSD P300, is built on a 6 Gbps SATA interface and boasts higher capacities and better performance than its predecessor.
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Solid-state drive - Micron Technology - Serial ATA - Multimedia - Development Frameworks
Solid-state drive - Micron Technology - Serial ATA - Multimedia - Development Frameworks
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New Continuity Software RecoverGuard disaster recovery test app for virtual servers is released
Continuity Software's new release of its RecoverGuard 5.2 disaster recovery test software offers better visibility into virtualized environments.
Disaster recovery - Business - Fire and Security - Business Services - Emergency Management
Disaster recovery - Business - Fire and Security - Business Services - Emergency Management
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Actifio launches disaster recovery appliances
Actifio emerges from stealth mode with appliances for managing data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity in VMware environments; the startup's challenge is to convince customers to change the way they manage data on virtual machines.
VMware - Disaster recovery - Business - Virtual machine - Business continuity
VMware - Disaster recovery - Business - Virtual machine - Business continuity
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Data center consolidation best practices for disaster recovery planners
Many organizations large and small are finding a need to consolidate their data. Follow these best practices for your data center consolidation.
Data center - Disaster recovery - Best practice - Business - Storage
Data center - Disaster recovery - Best practice - Business - Storage
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A look at direct-attached storage devices in 2010 and beyond
DAS devices may not be sufficient for large enterprises, but the market for DAS still exists for SMBs.
Direct-attached storage - Storage - Hardware - Subsystems - Business and Economy
Direct-attached storage - Storage - Hardware - Subsystems - Business and Economy
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i365 adds new features to its EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service
This week's disaster recovery news in brief: i365 adds new features to its disaster recovery service and Palisade Systems introduces new data loss prevention service.
Disaster recovery - I365 - Business - Data loss - Business Services
Disaster recovery - I365 - Business - Data loss - Business Services
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JetBlue switches to EMC Avamar, does remote-office backups over WAN
While migrating to larger data centers, JetBlue centralized its backup process by using EMC Avamar deduplication instead of tape at remote sites; now the airline doesn't have to fly IT people to regional offices to collect tapes.
Backup - Data deduplication - Data center - EMC Corporation - Business
Backup - Data deduplication - Data center - EMC Corporation - Business
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Oracle backup best practices
Learn Oracle backup best practices in this column from backup and recovery expert W. Curtis Preston.
Backup - Utilities - Oracle - Site Management - Home
Backup - Utilities - Oracle - Site Management - Home
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LTO tape media data transfer rate to increase in smaller increments through LTO-8 tape
The LTO Program announces generations LTO-6 though LTO-8 of LTO tape media; data transfer rates will increase, but in smaller increments through LTO-8.
Linear Tape-Open - Hardware - Storage - Tape drive - LTO Program
Linear Tape-Open - Hardware - Storage - Tape drive - LTO Program
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Laptop data backup and desktop data backup best practices
Laptop and desktop backup is just as important as enterprise data backup. Learn about the best practices to follow for backing up your laptop and desktop data in this Q&A.
Laptop - Hardware - Notebooks and Laptops - Backup - Cases and Accessories
Laptop - Hardware - Notebooks and Laptops - Backup - Cases and Accessories
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Pancetera Unite helps speed up virtual machine backup
Startup brings out Pancetera Unite to reduce I/O requirements and accelerate backups of virtual machines; the vendor promises other management capabilities.
Virtual machine - Backup - Site Management - Freeware - United States
Virtual machine - Backup - Site Management - Freeware - United States
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