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Alacritech re-emerges with NAS acceleration appliance

All SanDisk USB sticks to get encrypted 'vault' | Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC consortium plan withdrawn

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Alacritech re-emerges with NAS acceleration appliance
After years of quietly milking its TCP/IP offload technology for revenue through licensing agreements, Alacritech has re-emerged to introduce its first file server acceleration appliance, which boasts the ability to improve performance by three or more times. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks

Direct Attach Reduces Tiers in the Data Center
Extreme Networks® Direct Attach™ eliminates the virtual switch layer, simplifying the network and improving the performance. Extreme Networks further enables data center simplification by eliminating the blade switch, thereby reducing the number of tiers in the data center from 5 to 3. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper

Defragmentation in Virtualized Environments
Performance corrupting file fragmentation is severely compounded on virtual platforms and threatens to undo most of its efficiency benefits. Coordinating defrag resources between VMs was an insurmountable barrier until recent innovations eliminated conflicts. Learn More

All SanDisk USB sticks to get encrypted 'vault'
Storage giant SanDisk has come up with a new half-way house for consumers who want to use encryption on portable USB without diving in at the deep end. Read More

Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC consortium plan withdrawn
In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Addressing the Complexities of Remote Data Protection
This white paper reviews the factors that can make data protection and recovery in remote offices a complicated problem and describes the range of technology options available, explaining the benefits and shortcomings of each in the context of remote offices. Read Now

EMC testing engineer stole nearly $1M in duffel bag
A former EMC testing engineer has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole about US$930,000 worth of equipment from the company's Apex, North Carolina, plant. Read More

From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition
The Computer History Museum this week opens a $19 million, 25,000-square-foot building expansion and exhibition titled: "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing." Read More


WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Reduce the Cost and Complexity of "Reactive" eDiscovery
To completely understand the value of an archive in electronic discovery, it helps to understand why companies started using archiving to support legal processes in the first place. Read this white paper to learn best practices for choosing an archive solution that scales and your companies needs. Read now!

IBM snares 5,896 patents, Apple debuts among top 50 patent winners
IBM earned more U.S. patents in 2010 than any other company, topping the list of patent winners for the 18th year in a row. Apple broke into the top 50 for the first time with 563 patents. Read More

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