What's faster, PCIe or 6Gb SAS? ... Dell buys Compellen

	Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M | Amazon's S3 can now store files of up to 5TB
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	What's faster, PCIe or 6Gb SAS? We know, you're thinking that this is a trick question. Everyone knows that multiple PCIe lanes of 5Gbps each trumps a single 6Gbps SAS link (Serial Attached SCSI). Even we can do that math. And what about latency, everyone knows that bus-attached devices have less latency than going through an adapter to a SAS-linked SSD. The SCSI Trade Association says 'not so fast.' Read More WHITE PAPER: Pareto Networks The Cloud-based Telework Solution By combining a cloud-based model with user-friendly devices, Pareto Networks has pioneered a new approach to remote access with the simplicity, centralized control, visibility, and economies of scale needed for broad deployment to permanent telewokers. Read now! In this Issue Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M Amazon's S3 can now store files of up to 5TB Feds to cut 800-plus data centers by 2015 Secure Flash Drives Lock Down Your Data WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth US$27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share price tag it was discussing with the company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning opening price of $28.30. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Shifting to the Revolutionary Cloud Prepare for the future and enter the new world of private clouds. As more enterprises move from public to private clouds, scaled-out applications will become more prevalent. More scalable apps means more efficiency, better response time and enhanced end-user experiences. Join the cloud revolution. Read More! Amazon's S3 can now store files of up to 5TB Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increased the maximum size of files that can be stored on its Simple Storage Service (S3) to 5TB from 5GB, Amazon said in a blog post on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Wanted: An Ultra-Efficient Enterprise Data Center Make the data center efficient. That's the mandate of late for enterprise IT. Here's how to do it: Start with a simple, standardized infrastructure, add flexibility, solid management and support as well as strategic spending decisions, and you're on your way. Find the details here. Read More! Feds to cut 800-plus data centers by 2015 Federal CIO Vivek Kundra yesterday released a 25-point plan for restructuring federal IT operations to boost productivity to private sector levels. Read More Secure Flash Drives Lock Down Your Data Hollywood makes secure flash storage look easy. If the bad guy steals a thumb drive, it either blows up or some secret counterintelligence agency marshals the nation's resources in a no-holds-barred data hunt--most likely with Bruce Willis or Tommy Lee Jones working the streets. If the good guy steals the drive, it goes to a special-needs, special-deeds sidekick in a basement somewhere who cracks the code in 5 minutes. Read More
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