3PAR's 'thin' technologies: Part 2; SNW: data dedupe hot topic

Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors; Sidekick meltdown is a cloud security issue Storage Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by NetApp Masters of Enterprise Storage Looking for the latest storage news? Wondering what the latest product announcements are? Visit the Masters of Storage site brought to you by Network World, sponsored by NetApp for all the details. Read this week's featured blog, "IBM enters the cloud, announces content archive" to learn about a bundled hardware/soft/services offering, that let's customers deploy either internal or external clouds. Get all the details today. Spotlight Story 3PAR's 'thin' technologies: Part 2 For 3PAR, staying thin is more than just thin provisioning. It's keeping storage volumes thin and being able to reclaim storage space. 3PAR introduced its 'thin' strategy earlier this week at Storage Networking World. This newsletter discusses Thin Persistance, Thin Copy Reclamation and Thin Copy Reclamation with Veritas Storage Foundation. Read full story Related News: Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN). Sidekick meltdown is a cloud security issue Anyone considering cloud computing and data security has to take pause at the colossal mistake at Microsoft/Danger over the weekend. SNW: IT managers put data dedupe at the top of their future tech list Users at Storage Networking World this week were hopeful that technologies such as grid-storage architectures and deduplication would allow them to better manage their assets as data capacity grows out of control. 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