Dell is continuing the evolution of its homegrown storage portfolio with additions to the EqualLogic family and further integration with the Compellent and PowerVault lines. The company announced the EqualLogic PS6100 and PS4100 virtualized, IP-based storage systems, and details on integration across its storage portfolio with the forthcoming VMware vSphere 5 virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform.
Network Computing
Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says
Enterprises have made great strides improving the energy efficiency of processors, servers and storage technology, but an expert on eco-friendly IT says that attention also has to be paid to networking equipment and the addition of power management features of software.
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Google+, Day 15: A Closer Look at Google+ Privacy
30 Days With Google+: Day 15
One of the most appealing aspects of Google+ for many users is privacy. Many feel Facebook has been too cavalier when it comes to sharing personal information, and that Google is a better steward of sensitive data. For today’s 30 Days With Google+ entry, I am taking a closer look at some of the privacy aspects of Google+.
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$99 TouchPad Too Good to Pass Up
News is spreading quickly online that HP is going to clear out the vast TouchPad inventory by dropping the price to an offer you can’t refuse. Rumor has it that beginning tomorrow the 16Gb TouchPad will be $ 99, and the 32Gb TouchPad will be a measly $ 149.
If you asked me three weeks ago about a TouchPad, I would have said you should absolutely not get one. For the same money you could get an iPad 2 which is a vastly superior tablet.
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Lee’s Diggin’ Motoroogle
The purchase of Motorola’s mobile line by Google is a good thing by any name, if you ask me. This is an issue of keeping the force in balance, of yin and yang. There are far bigger issues at work here than mere devices, and Google’s move is good for everyone.
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F5 Networks Acquires Assets And IP Of Crescendo Networks
Application delivery network provider F5 Networks has acquired intellectual property (IP) and certain technology assets from Crescendo Networks. Chief among the assets is a number of Crescendo Networks engineers at its headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. The engineers will join F5 engineers already based in that city.
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Panzura Builds Private And Hybrid Clouds
Until I got a detailed briefing from Panzura’s Randy Chow the other day, I had lumped Panzura into the cloud storage gateway category. While their Alto controllers and panOS can use a public cloud provider like Amazon S3 or Nirvanix as a storage back end, Panzura’s value proposition isn’t providing an on-ramp to public cloud storage but a true distributed file system that can be accessed simultaneously from multiple locations.
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Windows 8 App Store Will Change Windows Software Forever
Windows 8 is coming, and apparently its bringing a Windows 8 app store with it. Speculation that began with hints of an app store in leaked builds of Windows 8 earlier this year have been all but officially confirmed in a blog post from the President of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live divisions, Steven Sinofsky.
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Death of HP TouchPad Changes the Tablet Landscape
The tech world was rocked earlier this week when Google announced its purchase of Motorola Mobility, but that was nothing compared with the bombshell HP dropped today. HP announced in one fell swoop that it is abandoning both the PC and mobile device markets. PCs will live on, but the demise of WebOS eliminates what should have been a major player in the mobile field.
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