IBM upgrades DS8000 arrays; Compellent's SAN, NAS integrated array

	Compellent announces SAN, NAS integrated array | Sony to end floppy disk production
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	IBM upgrades high-end DS8000 arrays IBM recently introduced software called Easy Tier that can be used to automate the movement of data to solid state drives in the company's System Storage DS8000 disk arrays. The company also introduced other enhancements to its storage products including the use of 2TB drives in its XIV storage system and LTO-5 support in its tape libraries. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Celebrating Unified Storage Leadership NetApp customers mark historical milestone of 150,000 unified storage systems deployed. Customers are leveraging NetApp's unified storage solutions to simplify operations, achieve business breakthroughs, increase productivity, and recognize significant cost savings. To hear these customers tell their stories, click here. In this Issue Compellent announces SAN, NAS integrated array Sony to end floppy disk production Drive Genius 3 monitors and repairs your hard disk Virtualization and shared storage pave the way for affordable business continuity and disaster recovery Recover Files From a NAS WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenge.s Click to continue Compellent announces SAN, NAS integrated array Compellent released a new storage device, the zNAS, which allows both file-based and block-level data to be stored and managed through a single user interface. Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Virtualization and Disaster Recovery The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount but organizations may not understand how vulnerable they are to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how Double-Take Software's solutions can help. Read Now. Sony to end floppy disk production The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. Drive Genius 3 monitors and repairs your hard disk Prosoft Engineering has released Drive Genius 3, a new version of its popular disk repair utility for OS X. Read More Virtualization and shared storage pave the way for affordable business continuity and disaster recovery As recently as five years ago, business continuity and disaster-recovery topics would make IT executives in small to midsize enterprises grumble that neither was affordable. Now companies of all sizes are realizing they can have both using virtualization technology. Read More Recover Files From a NAS After reading Recover Missing Files, Frederic Hugues asked about recovering them from a networked-attached storage (NAS) drive. Read More
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