The week in storage news; Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it

	Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it | U.K. dry cleaners finding fewer USB sticks in clothes, but there's a catch
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	The week in storage news EMC, Nexsan, BakBone Software and StorageCraft Technology last week rolled out new storage hardware and software that increases storage capacity, deduplicates data and allows the protection and recovery of Microsoft Exchange. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 4 Key Principles of Storage Virtualization Applying the concept of virtual resource pools to storage can transform the virtualized storage infrastructure. Read this ESG report to learn best practices on; storage virtualization, application integration, capacity and power optimization, and storage & server convergence. Read Now! In this Issue Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it U.K. dry cleaners finding fewer USB sticks in clothes, but there's a catch Half of storage customers considering cloud computing, survey finds Oracle and Sun to push private cloud solutions Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security WHITE PAPER: Data Domain VMware Data Backup and Recovery Best Practices VMware offers extraordinary benefits, but it can come at the cost of extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. Data Domain deduplication storage offers a way out by reducing redundant data across VMware data backups, operating at disk speeds, and providing cost-effective replication for fast DR using backup images. Click here to learn more. Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it For all the cloud computing hype, few business customers are actually storing data on Web-based platforms. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Inefficiencies Behind Exchange, SQL Server, More Discover four current Microsoft application infrastructure challenges and why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now. Learn more! U.K. dry cleaners finding fewer USB sticks in clothes, but there's a catch Carrying memory sticks around in pockets can lead to data loss, according to results of a survey that found 4,500 of the USB devices were absentmindedly left in clothing sent to the cleaners last year in the United Kingdom. Read More WHITE PAPER: Storwize Storwize/IBM Technical Validation Report Storwize appliances, deployed on IBM hardware, compress data in real-time as it is passed to the storage system. Storwize has placed special emphasis on the performance of the storage system with the STN product line to ensure that Storwize compression does not impact performance. This technical report describes the tests performed by IBM and Storwize personnel, and the results of each verification test. Learn more Half of storage customers considering cloud computing, survey finds Despite security and reliability concerns, half of customers considering cloud storage. Read More Oracle and Sun to push private cloud solutions The Oracle and Sun Microsystems road map [[artnid: 333300|due to be announced this week by Larry Ellison]] will likely include moves to forge the pair into a solutions provider in the vein of IBM and HP, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. Read More Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server and storage resources in multi-tenant systems. Read More
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