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Business Briefs

BRIEFS

This section takes on late-breaking business and partnership news written for industry insiders.

Snia On Storage

Choosing the right backup solution

There are a range of products and technologies available to meet your RTO and RPO requirements.

News Analysis Trends

Data Domain expands de-dupe to nearline

After helping bring data de- duplication to the forefront as a must-have capability in the backup process, Data Domain is taking de-dupe a step further by expanding its operating system to go beyond backup with support for nearline applications.

Hitachi shrinks USP for midrange

It has been just a few months since Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) overhauled its enterprise-class Universal Storage Platform (USP).

HP ships ‘Shorty’ blade server

Hewlett-Packard is out to bring blades to the masses with an all-in-one system complete with server, storage, networking, and data protection in an enclosure about the same size as a desk-side PC.

NEC ships array for backup, archive

End users in search of a way to consolidate backup and archive data onto a single system may be in luck.

Solid-state disks stage a comeback

Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) have been the storage technology of choice for decades.

Start-up virtualizes I/O connectivity

Over the past few years virtualization has evolved from an industry buzzword into a full-fledged revolutionary force in the data center.

Storage vendors target virtual servers

In a keynote at last month’s VMworld show in San Francisco, Cisco CEO John Chambers likened the rise of virtualization to the rise of the Internet, saying that virtualization will “usher in a new generation of productivity, changing how we work, where we work, and the nature of work itself.

Editorial

Happy 10th, INFOSTOR!

This issue marks our 10-year anniversary and, since our staff is geographically dispersed, we virtualized the celebration, complete with virtual martinis (VMs).

Esg Insight

IT’s new ‘dirty little secret’

About five years ago,</b> I wrote an article in this magazine exposing one of IT’s now- infamous dirty little secrets. Backup and recovery, as it was done then, was grossly inefficient, and IT was fully aware of it.