Virtual tape the YouTube way (and other snippets)

Storage Alert NetworkWorld.com | Data Center Research Center | Update Your Profile Virtual tape the YouTube way (and other snippets) By Deni Connor Virtual Tape Library vendor Sepaton has been busy this holiday season by posting a few YouTube videos predicting the demise of tape. The first is called Max Baxter: Data Never Dies. Maybe a paintball court is a good use of a data center floor emptied of its tape libraries. Read full story Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW.COM), an industry analyst firm in Austin, Texas, that focuses on storage and data center technologies. You can reach her at dconnor@ssg-now.com. MORE STORIES SPONSORED BY QUANTUM SSG Learn the Benefits of Data Deduplication Find out how you can see dramatic back-up and restoration performance improvements with data deduplication in this report. Respected firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, authored this report that provides detailed product evaluation and validation information. Discover how data deduplication will help you meet your back-up window objectives, provides ease of use and reliable data recovery. Download this report now. RELATED NEWS: Intel goes open source with 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet' package, 12/18/07 Intel this week released a software package intended to encourage development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet products for the Linux operating system. Sun server/storage exec: Virtualization has customers confused, 12/17/07 Q&A with Sun's new head of storage and servers looks at Sun's attempt to reverse declining disk revenues, address energy efficiency and deliver storage and server advances. Toshiba shows first HD DVD-RW laptop, 12/17/07 Toshiba will begin selling later this week the first laptop computer to feature a rewritable HD DVD optical disc drive, the company said on Monday ... THE FASTEST FIREWALLS  Crossbeam, IBM win raw performance test; Juniper scores on price. HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Find the very best tech holiday gift ideas. SPONSORED BY QUANTUM SSG Learn the Benefits of Data Deduplication Find out how you can see dramatic back-up and restoration performance improvements with data deduplication in this report. Respected firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, authored this report that provides detailed product evaluation and validation information. Discover how data deduplication will help you meet your back-up window objectives, provides ease of use and reliable data recovery. Download this report now. Holiday Tech Toys Stumped on what gadgets and gizmos to give this holiday? Have no fear, Cool Tools' Keith Shaw is here. We do all of the heavy lifting of wading through hundreds of submitted technology products to find the very best holiday gift ideas. Click here to view our holiday gift guide: http://www.nww.com/PSA2_1210 Featured reader resource 90% of IT Managers are leaving their company at risk for a DNS ATTACK. Get the tools and resources you need to keep your DNS healthy and secure. Run a DNSreport on your domain today - 56 critical tests run in 8 seconds. Visit www.dnssfuff.com to learn more. (apply coupon NWW2007NLA for a 25% membership discount)   12/20/07 TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: How to really bury a mainframe BGP bug bites Juniper software 10 crazy USB stocking stuffers Xbox signal jamming WLANs 15 must-have Firefox tricks Feds are dropping the ball on IPv6 Microsoft security update cripples IE Phone-record thieves laugh at the law Guru predicts last-minute IPv6 switch New Sprint chief Hesse faces a big inbox TOP 100 OF 2007 Case study: Effective disaster recovery Learn how the University of Maryland School of Medicine reduced downtime to seconds and saved thousands in hardware costs thanks to LeftHand Networks' open iSCSI SANs and VMware. Provide high availability and effective disaster recovery across geographically separated data centers. Click here to download this real-world case study. IT Buyer's Guides Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now.   To continue receiving NetworkWorld's Storage Alert newsletter, please add @nwfnews.com to your white list. COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE As a NW newsletter subscriber you are eligible to receive 50 issues of Network World Magazine, in print or electronic format, free of charge. Sign up for your subscription today: Apply here. International subscribers,click here.   SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Terms of Service/Privacy Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007