Dell to acquire 3PAR

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	Dell to acquire 3PAR Dell bolstered its storage portfolio and strengthened its entry into enterprise storage with the purchase of 3PAR for $1.15 billion. The acquisition of the 11-year-old company, which has had success competing with EMC, HP, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM for high-end enterprise storage, follows on Dell's acquisition of Ocarina Networks last month. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage ROI: A detailed look Is the idea of dramatically reducing the number of servers you support, increasing capacity and lowering costs intriguing? Find out how you can reduce your storage costs by up to $300,000 annually and make this idea a reality. The key is selecting a next-generation storage platform. Read More! In this Issue Toshiba claims hard-drive breakthrough SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM Intel-Hitachi SSDs fall behind schedule Booming demand for digital data storage space Intel, Micron announce higher-density flash memory PC maker offers six-core laptop with 4TB of storage Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off Lessons from a data center that's got game Snow Leopard, UPS, and a missing PowerChute WHITE PAPER: NetApp Effective IT Management with Measuring/Monitoring Do you know how efficient your IT assets are? Not knowing the answer might be costing you millions. Read what tools are available to help. Read More! Toshiba claims hard-drive breakthrough Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today. Read More SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM Device and storage vendors are gradually embracing flash SSDs (solid-state disks) as a complement to spinning disk drives, but one executive at this week's Flash Memory Summit sees great potential in turning flash "upside down," as a lower tier of cache behind DRAM. Read More Intel-Hitachi SSDs fall behind schedule A partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has missed the ship date for its first enterprise flash storage products, but that stumble wasn't a harbinger of bad times for the technology, which continues to gain acceptance in data centers, an industry analyst said Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Is Power Protection Costing You More Than It Should? This white paper looks at five questions you need to ask before selecting a high- efficiency, multi- mode UPS for your data center. Read More Booming demand for digital data storage space The current explosion in digital content, coupled with a steep decrease in the price of digital storage, has touched off a growing demand for ever greater digital data storage space, announced Gfk Asia, a global provider of technology and retail market data in Asia. Read More Intel, Micron announce higher-density flash memory Intel and Micron announced denser NAND flash memory, which could help reduce the space occupied by memory while increasing the storage capacity on consumer electronics. Read More PC maker offers six-core laptop with 4TB of storage A Canadian PC maker is offering a laptop with a massive 4TB of storage and Intel's fastest six-core processor, a rare combination of such high-end parts for a portable computer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Unleashing Stranded Power and Cooling from Data Centers This white paper examines the underlying roots of today's data center power and cooling crisis and outlines five steps businesses can take to support intensifying IT requirements economically by removing inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure. Read More Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off Toshiba has introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down. Read More Lessons from a data center that's got game Companies developing latency-sensitive applications for hosting in their data centers could take a lesson from the playbook of OnLive. Read More Snow Leopard, UPS, and a missing PowerChute Reader Don Cooper has done the smart thing by attaching an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to his Mac. Yet, a question remains. Read More
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