3PAR, Riverbed, LSI/Seagate solid state drives; Cisco SANs

	Cisco launches new servers, switches, SANs to sweep through the data center | EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision
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	3PAR, Riverbed and LSI/Seagate roll out solid state drives In the past month 3PAR, Riverbed and LSI/Seagate introduced solid state drives into their existing product lines. Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Top 7 Reasons to use Double-Take Backup You need a better solution for remote data protection You are sick of squeezing backups into a window of time You want to reduce the cost of backups & recoveries Recovering an entire server will save you time You want to maximize your investment in virtual infrastructure You want more recovery point choices You already trust Double-Take Click to continue In this Issue Cisco launches new servers, switches, SANs to sweep through the data center EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly 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. Cisco launches new servers, switches, SANs to sweep through the data center Cisco this week rolled out a bevy of data center products ranging from servers to switches to SANs, all designed to further broaden the company's reach beyond networking and into IT infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision Pat Gelsinger made headlines in September 2009 when he left Intel to join EMC as president and COO of information infrastructure products, a group that includes the company's information storage and information security businesses. Now, Gelsinger -- who was Intel's first chief technology officer and led both the desktop products group and the digital enterprise group during his career at the chip maker -- is making waves again. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Automating Processes to Optimize a Windows 7 Deployment Experts state that it is critical that planning for Windows 7 starts in the first half of 2010. With the cost per PC deployment estimated at $527-$700 per client, automating processes and leveraging outside expertise can reduce deployment costs and free your staff. Learn More Now Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly While vendors work to address enterprise concerns about cloud computing security, experts warn there's no easy fix. Meanwhile, cloud service outages and criminals operating in the cloud threaten enterprise acceptance of the utility computing model. Read More
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