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Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering

Who are tech's highest paid CEOs? | Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework

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Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering
Dell EqualLogic SSD and SAS hybrids highlight no-muss, no-fuss, fast storage tiering across multiple arrays Read More


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Who are tech's highest paid CEOs?
Oracle's Larry Ellison finally ousted from the top spot on our list of highest paid tech execs Read More

Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework
The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system. Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple's long-lost takeoff on famous '1984' Macintosh TV commercial
If all you want to see is Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - here's that short clip before we get to the longer version of the film that it's taken from and an explanation: Read More


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Virtually every company, regardless of size or industry, needs data archive capabilities. Datacenter administrators across all industry segments face similar archive challenges. Learn More!

Zynga infrastructure CTO: Making hardware cool again
Allan Leinwand is an infrastructure guy. He's CTO for infrastructure at Zynga, which during the past few years has built the zCloud, which powers some of the most popular social games today, such as "FarmVille" and "Words with Friends." It works by combining the capacity of Amazon Web Service's public cloud with the company's custom-built private cloud. And Leinwand says Zynga's evolution from relying on the public cloud to building a custom-made hybrid cloud, is one he hopes other enterprises can learn from. Leinwand is also excited because finally, he says, infrastructure is cool again. During the dot-com bubble all the talk was all about the Web, networking and storage. Read More

Google Drive Begs the Question: Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud?
Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions -- who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen -- are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too. Read More

DHS looking for forensic tools to lift evidence from solid state drives
The Department of Homeland Security is looking for tools to help the law enforcement community better pull forensic evidence from solid state drives found in smartphones and GPS devices in particular. Read More


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Learn how Cisco Wide Area Application Services provides high quality user experience for virtual desktops while doubling concurrently supported users over the WAN. Accelerate performance for applications and video delivered by Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. Learn More

VMware takes on Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive
VMware is offering a private-cloud based platform for document sharing and device syncing that could rival Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive by giving companies more control over their data. Read More

Hostage Crisis in the Cloud: Can You Rescue Your Data Back?
Outsourcing contracts typically include termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the IT service provider's responsibilities regarding returning data. IT buyers are surprised to find out that their cloud computing contracts contain no such provisions. Read More

Hot Products at Interop 2012
Click through all the products being released at the Interop conference in Las Vegas this week Read More



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