Data protection survey highlights enterprise IT concerns

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	Data protection survey highlights enterprise IT concerns SEPATON, a vendor of disk-based data protection systems, recently announced the results of its annual SEPATON Data Protection Index, a survey of IT professionals in enterprises with at least 1,000 employees and at least 50TB of primary data. The survey, which was conducted during the second quarter of 2011, tabulated results from 168 IT professionals. The survey was intended to elicit concerns about data protection and disaster prevention issues facing enterprise data centers. Read More WHITE PAPER: MSDI 5 Ways to Cash in on Cost Reductions Partnering with independent experts can be the key to IT innovation amidst stringent budgets. This paper discusses: • The quick savings hit from virtualization • How consolidating support and maintenance costs to a 3rd party can yield 40% savings • Reconsiderations for "rip and replace" Read more In this Issue Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE How to survive a cloud outage F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances PMC-Sierra releases 6Gbit/sec SATA/SAS RAID controllers LiveDrive, online storage excellence 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled New college grads doing better at the pay window WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Storage technologies for server virtualization When deployed together, highly virtualized HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, and server virtualization from VMware deployed on HP server blades deliver a compelling utility computing solution. Read now Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE Broadcom's first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE component. Read More How to survive a cloud outage Amazon's infamous cloud outage in April brought down a number of popular Web sites, including foursquare and Reddit - but many of Amazon's enterprise cloud customers were able to weather the storm without experiencing downtime. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances F5 Networks announced two new storage virtualization appliances that are designed for entry-level and midrange businesses. Read More PMC-Sierra releases 6Gbit/sec SATA/SAS RAID controllers PMC-Sierra today released two new entry-level RAID controllers for SATA and SAS hardware that sport 6Gbit/sec throughput. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! LiveDrive, online storage excellence Gibbs is very impressed with LiveDrive, a cloud storage service that is excellent value Read More 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled Virtual reality and its oversize helmets. The Segway scooter. AT&T's Picturephone from 1964? These tech innovations and more were supposed to change your life. Whoops! Read More New college grads doing better at the pay window Of course, many a recent college grad would be unfamiliar with the concept of a pay window, but that's neither here nor there. According to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), starting salaries being offered to this year's college graduates are up 4.8 percent over this time last year. Those with computer science degrees are doing just fine, too, although... Read More
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