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	Review: Dell Compellent storage delivers flash speeds at disk prices Dell's latest update to the Compellent Storage Center includes a novel approach to tiered SSDs, but it comes with caveats Read More WEBCAST: SAP The Path to Big Data Register today to reserve your spot, Tuesday, December 17, at 11:00 AM CST, to hear from top IDC analyst, about the path you can start taking now to enable your organization to get the benefits of turning data into actionable insights with exciting x86 technology. Is the data explosion today a liability or a competitive advantage for your business? View now In this Issue Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion Inside Dropbox's plans for enterprise domination Seagate Central: One of the easiest network-attached storage devices to set up Cloud pricing: It's (really) complicated Box has been thinking outside of the cloud Geek-themed Meme of the Week: System is Down Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 12 Big Data Predictions for 2014 Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Improve Business Agility and Trust through Data Protection EMC Data Protection enables businesses to accelerate IT Transformation through a Protection Storage Architecture that brings together backup, DR and archiving to increase scalability while driving down complexity and cost. Avoid accidental architectures that will slow your business down. Learn more. Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion Semiconductor company Avago Technologies has agreed to buy storage and networking company LSI for US$6.6 billion in an effort to expand its data center offerings. Read More Inside Dropbox's plans for enterprise domination Last week, Dropbox announced a deal calling for Dell's global sales team to sell its Dropbox for Business cloud-based storage and file-sharing services, with or without Dell Data Protection encryption, and for Dell to pre-install Dropbox on all its PC and tablets. Read More Seagate Central: One of the easiest network-attached storage devices to set up If you shudder when hearing the words "network-attached storage" you can at least take solace knowing that you aren't alone. NAS devices seem intimidating and unfriendly (even the terms "NAS" and "network-attached storage" have the stench of jargon), but they can be quite useful, especially in a home with multiple computers. Seagate wants to make NAS more consumer friendly, and they take several steps towards that goal with Central. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Unleash Your Data With SDS And IBM Storwize V5000 In this webcast IBM examines software defined storage and how IBM Storwize V5000, the newest member of the IBM Storwize family, delivers virtualized, flexible, easy-to-use storage that enables midsized organizations to gain business advantage from the flood of new data while staying within their budgets. View Now Cloud pricing: It's (really) complicated In theory, cloud computing offers a fairly straightforward model for consuming compute and storage resources. Customers request capacity, it is provided by a vendor and it is paid for. Customers should be able to spin up and down resources as they need to and only pay for what they use. Read More Box has been thinking outside of the cloud Many people think of Box as a cloud company. But really, it's a collaboration company, says Vikrant Karnik, senior vice president of enterprise cloud consulting services for systems integrator Capgemini, a newly minted Box partner. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: System is Down Edition No. 26 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series features Bill Murray as Caddyshack's Carl Spackler expressing a frustration that has been experienced many a time by both call center representatives and customers. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More 12 Big Data Predictions for 2014 It's been one of the big buzzwords of 2013, but what does 2014 have in store for big data? CIO.com looks at 12 ways the technology and the market will evolve in the coming year. Read More Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up Hottest iPhones, Android phones…literally. Read More
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