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	Windows Server 8 to be storage-focused OS With the beta of Windows Server 8 to be released in the next few weeks, Microsoft executives said the next-generation OS is focused squarely on storage. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Join the Cisco UCS Webcast on March 8 Hear from leading experts how third-generation fabric computing, delivered through Cisco UCS, meets changing business demands and provides companies with a competitive advantage. Click to continue In this Issue PCI Express over optical cabling: Performance, simplicity, efficiency Movie studios team with storage vendors on DRM Point-to-point data center cable will cost you in the long run Box offers 50 GB free storage with updated Android cloud service Toshiba and SanDisk shrink 128Gbit memory chips Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A visual tour for IT If the 'ridiculous' Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage If you thought that public cloud providers protect your cloud servers from harmful intrusions and other security threats - think again. The burden of securing your cloud servers typically rests with you. Register today to secure 25 cloud servers for free with the award-winning CloudPassage Halo. PCI Express over optical cabling: Performance, simplicity, efficiency Optical solutions can be a key enabler for network architects who see value in using PCI Express (PCIe) as an I/O technology for data center connectivity. Using PCIe to natively connect servers, switches and storage elements can lower overall system costs by reducing or eliminating the number of protocol conversions. Additionally, this increased system simplicity provides networks with latency, power and dollars-per-gigabit advantages. Read More Movie studios team with storage vendors on DRM The companies today agreed to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various other storage devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Effectively Manage IT Compliance IT compliance is mandatory for your business – but it doesn't have to be difficult, and when properly controlled is a boon for your company. In this four-part eBook, see how the many parts of IT compliance can be effectively managed throughout the business. Get it today. Read Now! Point-to-point data center cable will cost you in the long run Direct cable connections between data center resources such as switches and servers and servers and storage was once common, and unfortunately the practice is surfacing again with the use of top of rack (ToR) and end of row (EoR) equipment mounting options. ToR and EoR equipment placement relies heavily on P2P cables, which can be problematic and costly if viewed as a replacement for standards-based structured cabling systems. Read More Box offers 50 GB free storage with updated Android cloud service Box Thursday said it has updated its cloud storage service Box for Android, adding a new interface to support Android 4.0 devices and new collaboration features Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Looking Ahead: A Cloud Report from 2015 BMC CIO, Mark Settle, looks to the future and describes how he envisions cloud computing will evolve by 2015. The world of underutilized servers, security concerns, long provisioning cycles and spending 60% of the IT budget on application maintenance, data center operations, and facility expenses are history. Read More Toshiba and SanDisk shrink 128Gbit memory chips Toshiba said Thursday it has shrunk the size of its 128Gbit NAND flash memory chips, in the race to bring more and tinier storage to products like USB storage and memory cards. Read More Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A visual tour for IT Microsoft's latest OS offers two faces and a lot of feature and UI confusion Read More If the 'ridiculous' Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco After the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 13,000 last week, San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy made an impassioned case for including Apple in the index, a position he buttressed in part by citing an analysis by Adam Nash of Greylock Partners. Read More
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