Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Are storage admins getting automated out of their jobs? | SanDisk's 32GB Memory Card: Mega Storage, Mega Price

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Veeam verifies virtual machine recovery
Veeam Software this week expanded the capabilities of it Veeam Backup & Replication data protection package with the ability to test and verify the recoverability of virtual machines. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Splunk

Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

WHITE PAPER: Storwize

Inside New Data Compression Technology
Meet the demanding primary storage requirements for random access, high transaction volumes and high throughput. Examine how real-time compression tackles key requirements for primary storage data, including; performance, simplicity, data reduction, and high availability. Learn more

Are storage admins getting automated out of their jobs?
When it comes to job stability and pay, storage administrators had it made in 2009. Read More


WHITE PAPER: AccelOps

IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths
Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More!

SanDisk's 32GB Memory Card: Mega Storage, Mega Price
SanDisk today announced a removable memory card for mobile phones that offers a whopping 32-gigabytes of storage--not too shabby for a device that's roughly the size of a thumbnail. The new microSDHC 32GB card doubles the storage capacity of the vendor's 16GB microSDHC offering, which debuted just over a year ago. The bad news is that the 32GB model costs $200, or nearly four times the street price of most 16GB microSDHC cards. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Polycom

Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing
From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More

Automating the data store with tiering technology
Michael Glenn was wasting storage, and he knew it. Read More

Don't Forget About Streaming and Storage in Your UC Plans
One of the corollaries we found in our 2009 research was that as companies ramp up their use of video conferencing, demand grows for solutions to record video, store video, and share video both inside and outside the firewall. While YouTube is the dominant platform for external video sharing, a slew of new options are bringing YouTube like functionality behind the firewall. Read More



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