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	IBM's software-defined storage rides Watson's coattails Storage is now marching down the same path as computing, approaching a future when all of an organization's storage systems can be mixed and managed as virtual pools. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Business Impact from IT Agility and Data Center Automation Live Webcast Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT How are your IT peers achieving IT agility? Get the inside scoop from Forrester and Brocade on how enterprise organizations are overcoming IT agility challenges and the results they are achieving – plus get key recommendations and steps you can take to achieve similar results. View now>> In this Issue Box zings rivals with massive GE customer win Cloud, virtualization take front seats in EMC storage debuts New buys for EMC may come in security, big data IoT will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard, EMC says REM 14 historic BASIC implementations Worst of DRM set to infest physical law school casebooks WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel   Keep Your SAN Running Optimally In-depth monitoring and analysis are essential to effective storage management. Learn how SAN HQ for Dell EqualLogic SANs can help identify faults, accelerate time to resolution, simplify storage management, optimize performance, and boost efficiency at no additional cost for EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. Learn more! Box zings rivals with massive GE customer win Rocked recently by reports that it has delayed its IPO, Box has rebounded with a major customer win, snapping up General Electric, which plans to roll out the cloud storage and file sharing service to its 300,000 employees worldwide. Read More   Cloud, virtualization take front seats in EMC storage debuts   EMC's introductions this week of its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance (ECS) and of ViPR 2.0, the latest generation of its enterprise storage virtualization software, are two sides of the same coin. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Tintri Inc.   Storage Intelligence for Virtualized Environments Built on the industry's first and leading VM-Aware Storage architecture, this paper discusses how Tintri Flash First Design including VM-level QoS works and how it makes virtualization simple, predictable and efficient. Read now! New buys for EMC may come in security, big data EMC may be in the market for security and data analytics acquisitions as it builds out what it calls a federation of businesses among VMware, RSA Security, Pivotal and the company's traditional storage operations. Read More   IoT will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard, EMC says The IT systems of the past 20 years won't be able to handle the emerging Internet of Things, which will call for cloud computing, virtualization, efficient storage and big-data analysis, according to EMC. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Radware Assuring Web Performance Levels With Next Generation ADCs Next generation application delivery controllers (ADCs) accelerate applications, monitor end-to-end performance in real time, ensure their security and dedicate system resources to them to ensure SLAs. Learn More REM 14 historic BASIC implementations 50 years after its creation, here's a look back at some of the most notable implementations of the BASIC programming language Read More   Worst of DRM set to infest physical law school casebooks   Imagine shelling out $200 for a law school casebook only to learn at the end of the class that you don't actually own the book; that you are contractually obligated to return it to the publisher. Read More
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