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	HP StorageWorks SAN (formerly LeftHand Networks) is the right move | Vizioncore vRanger Pro eases data restoration
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	Energy-miser Viridity launches Viridity Software launched their software this week – a package for use by customers to manage power availability and to visualize hidden power, cooling and space capacity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. In this Issue HP StorageWorks SAN (formerly LeftHand Networks) is the right move Vizioncore vRanger Pro eases data restoration Tools4Ever's UMRA is a must-have Xsigo virtual I/0 Director saves money on Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches Four trends shape the New Data Center EMC chief's pay drops 23% to $9 million WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Peace Corp: Creating a worldwide unified network Learn how the Peace Corp made its unified network a reality after selecting and deploying cost-effective WAN optimization gear. One of the key factors was selecting a platform that integrated with its existing network spanning 70 countries. The result is dramatically improved performance and significant cost savings. Learn More HP StorageWorks SAN (formerly LeftHand Networks) is the right move I don't remember the exact year – maybe 2003 – but as soon as the industry adopted the iSCSI protocol, we bought one of the first LeftHand Networks' units. Now we have HP/LeftHand NSM2120 R2 storage units, six using SAS [serial-attached SCSI] drives and another six units equipped with SATA [serial ATA] drives. Read More Vizioncore vRanger Pro eases data restoration Vizioncore vRanger Pro gives me the ability to back up all of my virtual machines and the capability of restoring something, whether a domain or a single file, as it was at a point in time. That allows me to know that my clients, be they MedManagement customers or employees, are well-protected -- and it gives me a good way to sleep at night. Read More : ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Tools4Ever's UMRA is a must-have UMRA is hands down my favorite tool. It's a graphical scripting engine that lets you do pretty near anything you can think of. Read More Xsigo virtual I/0 Director saves money on Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches The Xsigo Systems virtual I/O Director saves us a lot of money on individual parts and pieces, and by that I mean the Fibre Channel switches, redundant Ethernet switches for iSCSI and all these different cards in the servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ProCurve Break Free from Proprietary Networking See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network. Read now. Four trends shape the New Data Center Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data center looks vastly different than it did even a year ago. Read More EMC chief's pay drops 23% to $9 million EMC chief Joe Tucci's total compensation declined 23% compared to his $11.7 million package in 2008. Read More
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