Pioneer announced a new Blu-ray drive this week. The BDR-2208 will be the fastest drive available on the market—an internal 15x Blu-ray burner—and offers small businesses a cost-effective means of backing up and archiving important data.
EMC, VMware, Cisco Earn Top Scores for Data Center Management
IT pros rate 10 data center management products in an InformationWeek survey. EMC emerges as the surprise leader. IT puts a priority on system health and service monitoring.
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Avere, Fujitsu Team Up for New Storage Offering
Avere and Fujitsu are partnering to build a 100TB, 100,000 IOPS storage system that will sell for $ 100,000.
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The one thing Windows 8 desktops really need
With the official launch of Windows 8 on the imminent horizon, PC manufacturers have announced a diverse array of new hardware. The problem with all of the desktop options is that they lack the one peripheral device they need to work effectively with Windows 8: a touchpad.
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Mellanox Makes SDN Move with New Switches
SwitchX-2 supports OpenFlow and leverages Mellanox’s Virtual Protocol Interconnect technology for simultaneous InfiniBand and Ethernet connections.
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Gamification Engages the Enterprise
Gamification isn’t just for luring consumers to click a “like” button. Enterprises may find surprising uses to boost productivity.
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Microsoft Buys Cloud Gateway Provider StorSimple
Microsoft’s acquisition validates the market for premises-based storage that also links to the cloud, and inaugurates the software giant as a provider of IT hardware.
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SDN Startup Midokura Takes on IT Giants
Midokura this week announced its MidoNet software, which promises to virtualize networks to enable infrastructure as a service.
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Fusion-io Software Enables Solid State SAN Array
Fusion-io announced the Ion Data Accelerator software, its entry into the all-solid-state array market, Monday. The software, combined with an industry-standard server and one or more of Fusion’s IoDrives, will create a storage area network (SAN) all-solid-state array. This is an important development because it allows data centers to share expensive server-centric PCIe flash drives across an entire network of physical and virtual servers.
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Microservers Take Aim at the Data Center
Microservers using dozens of low-power CPUs can be a better fit for many application workloads while dramatically reducing energy costs.
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