Gartner: Storage spending growing again, but not quickly

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	Gartner: Storage spending growing again, but not quickly Enterprises finally started opening their pocketbooks for external storage systems in the final quarter of last year, but economic uncertainty and the appeal of public cloud services continue to hold back the market, according to research company Gartner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Efficient Storage Consolidation with Dell Compellent The explosive growth of data continues while the operating costs in the data center keep on increasing: 80% of the IT budget is spent just to keep the data center running, and the volume of global data is expected to grow nine fold in the next 5 years, with 90% of it being the most challenging, unstructured data. Read Now In this Issue Cisco's big about-face on cloud services Cisco CTO Warrior joins Box board Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center SpiderOak streamlines its enterprise secure-cloud pricing to $5 per user Snopes.com working overtime to debunk Flight 370 hoaxes WHITE PAPER: CDW Are You Prepared for a Software Audit? Just the word "audit" is enough to make anyone shiver, and when it comes to a software audit, the reaction is no different. A software publisher can exercise its rights to conduct a software audit to check that a customer is using its products in accordance with the End User License Agreement (EULA). View Now Cisco's big about-face on cloud services Three years ago as part of a comprehensive cloud strategy, Cisco pledged to address every aspect of cloud except services – it did not want to compete with customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation The MDM advantage: Creating insight from big data Analyze big data in a timely manner, match it to master data, and derive actionable information to extract insights and make better business decisions. View Now Cisco CTO Warrior joins Box board Box, a cloud-based storage company that's expected to soon go public, named Cisco CTO and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior to its board. Box said Warrior's experience in enterprise technology and global strategy will help Box manage growth and "realize its mission." Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery Data deduplication has clear benefits when it comes to efficiently retaining backup data on disk and replicating data offsite for disaster recovery – you save both disk space and bandwidth by employing deduplication. Learn More Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center Riverbed Granite 2.5 eliminates remote office server administration and backup pains by delivering iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage over the WAN Read More SpiderOak streamlines its enterprise secure-cloud pricing to $5 per user Cloud storage provider SpiderOak has simplified the pricing of its enterprise service, updated its management console and introduced a mobile app for Android and iOS. Read More Snopes.com working overtime to debunk Flight 370 hoaxes Debunking Internet nonsense is what Snopes.com does every day, of course, but rarely have the site's proprietors been called upon to navigate such a swiftly running stream of bogusness as they have following the March 8 disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. And in some cases, rather than perfunctorily stamping these hoaxes "false," Snopes has gone the extra mile to tell us what the images... Read More
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