Start-up Continuity Software enhances management wares

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	Continuity Software enhances business continuity management software Continuity Software's RecoverGuard 5.2. now includes the Private Cloud Advisor, which alerts customers to changes in virtualized private cloud environments, and support for HP's XP storage platform. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Efficiency without Compromise Get storage efficiency AND improved business performance. With NetApp, you can have it all. See the 6 top reasons to choose NetApp. Download the white paper. In this Issue Dell to buy 3PAR for $1.15B Group test: What's the best SSD? Actifio aims to create order in data management Chip startup Smooth-Stone raises $48M in bid to rock Intel Riverbed CEO: Cisco can have Layer 2 and 3 networking, we'll take 4 through 7 Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD Retrospect 8.2 gets 3x speed boost, 64-bit support EMC releases new midrange deduplication array WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Reduce Overall Storage Costs By 10x Discover how IT can better optimize its storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost-effective, scalable information management platform that is: * Easy to manage. * Delivers the performance and availability competitive businesses require. Read now! Dell to buy 3PAR for $1.15B Dell has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3PAR for about $1.15 billion, a move that will boost its capabilities for building public and private cloud computing environments. The deal is expected to close later this year. Read More Group test: What's the best SSD? SSDs run silent and faster than traditional hard drives, with no spinning platters inside. As prices finally start to drop and storage capacities increase, PC Advisor tests five of the latest models. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Maximize Savings with Effective Storage Solutions Read how Cisco achieved over $8M in TCO savings in just eight months with the help of NetApp. Read More! Actifio aims to create order in data management The fast-growing stores of information in many enterprises have made a variety of data management tools necessary, but those many components are starting to come together. Read More Chip startup Smooth-Stone raises $48M in bid to rock Intel A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now Riverbed CEO: Cisco can have Layer 2 and 3 networking, we'll take 4 through 7 If you think WAN optimization is a niche market, don't bring it up around Jerry Kennelly. Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Riverbed Technology, Kennelly is a fervent believer that WAN optimization is the foundation for the next generation of IT infrastructure and that Riverbed is poised for a dominant role not only in corporate data centers but in the cloud as well. Read More Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD Micron is now shipping its first enterprise-class SSD, the P300, which sports read/write speeds of up to 360MB/sec and 275MB/sec, respectively, and is rated to handle 1.9TB of data per day for five years. Read More Retrospect 8.2 gets 3x speed boost, 64-bit support It feels weird to write about Retrospect without "Dantz" in front of it. But Roxio bought this backup and recovery software for small-to-medium businesses from EMC Corp. in May, and recently brought its first major update since the purchase. Read More EMC releases new midrange deduplication array EMC announced a new midrange deduplication array that scales to 76TB of raw data capacity, as well as a new deduplication engine for its disk library for mainframes and a new disk library series. Read More
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