HP aims at flexible, unified storage; IDC's top 10 tech predictions: cloud and analytics

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Spotlight Story HP aims at flexible, unified storage Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and economies of scale, by blurring the distinction between servers and storage. Read full story Related News: IDC's top 10 tech predictions: cloud and analytics Unsurprisingly, cloud computing tops IDCs' 2010 technology predictions after a year where it was hyped and pushed and almost bludgeoned into the mindsets of IT professionals across the industry. While coming a close second was business analytics, which from the past few years is seemingly never far from the top one or two priorities of CIOs. Amazon cloud computing service unveils eBay auction-style pricing Amazon's cloud computing division is unveiling an eBay-style auction service that will let users bid on unused virtual server capacity. Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management capabilities Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft Friday said that it had purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for an undisclosed sum. Dell embeds Fibre Channel over Ethernet in server line Dell on Thursday announced it is shipping single-chip Fibre Channel over Ethernet network interface cards in a large range of PowerEdge servers. The move could bolster adoption of the nascent networking protocol. IBM's newest mainframe is all Linux IBM expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. Extreme Networks to help enterprises migrate data centres Networking company Extreme Networks has come out with a plan to help enterprises migrate their data centres from a physical network, to a virtual network to location-independent cloud networks. 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