Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud

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	Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies CA Automation Suite Paves the Way for Cloud This white paper describes how virtualization and cloud initiatives are creating new types of management challenges across physical and virtual data center environments. It explains why standardization, automation, and integration of many processes and tools are needed to help IT teams become more productive and agile. Read More In this Issue Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation Microsoft and TechStars Team Up; Giving Away Free Cloud Services to Fledgling Startups. Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays 25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas In-flight Wi-Fi struggling to gain altitude WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Consolidation Without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Learn More Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management Read More EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Moving to Virtualization: A Guide to What's Possible Did you know that over the next year, 50% of small and midsized businesses are moving to virtualization? That's because virtualization allows businesses to run multiple operating systems and applications simultaneously on the same server, delivering a range of great benefits. Learn More! EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology. Read More Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation Riverbed Technology plans to make enterprise data centers look like local storage at branch offices with Granite, a new accelerator technology the company is announcing on Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Microsoft and TechStars Team Up; Giving Away Free Cloud Services to Fledgling Startups. Microsoft and TechStars, a prominent startup accelerator which operates programs in Boulder (Colorado), Boston, New York, Seattle and Texas, just announced a new program in which high-potential startups could earn $60,000 worth of compute and storage Cloud Services on Windows Azure over a two-year period. Read More Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the capacity of the previous model. Read More 25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas From subtle geekery to blatantly techie devices, Valentine's Day gifts suit a range of personalities Read More In-flight Wi-Fi struggling to gain altitude At first blush, it's another one of those, "Sure, it will happen ... eventually," type of situations. I mean does anyone envision a commercial air fleet without Internet service 20 years down the runway? Read More
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