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Here you will find up-to-date news, expert insight/perspective/technical analysis of data storage, recovery, backup, and archiving packages that you need to design, deploy, monitor, manage, secure and maintain your storage resources. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes production-ready, nearline storage and deep freeze-type archiving. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes disk-based, solid-state, tape-based and online storage; Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS); iSCSI and Fibre Channel; and fabric networks. It also includes storage management software, master data management, data deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning and single-instance storage. eWEEK Data Storage coverage follows many vendors, including EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Seagate Technology, SanDisk, Fujitsu, 3PAR, Compellant, Oracle/Sun, Teradata, Brocade, NEC and Samsung.


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Google Must Embrace Travel, Gaming: 10 Reasons Why

Google surprised only a few when it agreed to purchase ITA Software July 1. The search engine said it planned to use ITA's software to build flight search tools that would make it easier for users to search for flights, compare flight options and prices, and transfer to a site to purchase tickets. Interestingly, Hitwise has said Google would get into gaming, another Web vertical where Google lacks a presence. Days later TechCrunch reported that Google had invested $100 million to $200 million in social gaming specialist Zynga and had struck a deal to use the startup's platform. The idea is that Google could lure some users from Facebook if it could offer a gaming platform. Here are 10 reasons why Google needs to have a commanding presence in both online travel and gaming.

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IBM Acquires Storwize for Data Compression

With the deal, IBM in effect answers a similar move by another Tier 1 storage hardware maker, Dell, which bought a Storwize competitor, Ocarina, on July 19.

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Amazon Introduces New Kindle, With Wi-Fi Option

Amazon announced its third-generation Kindle e-reader July 28, along with a WiFi-only version whose price-point undercuts that of Barnes & Noble’s WiFi-only Nook.

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Intel Interconnect Prototype Uses Light to Transmit Data

Intel researchers have created a prototype interconnect that uses beams of light to send and receive data, a development that could pave the way for significant changes in the way information moves between PCs, servers and mobile devices. The current method of using copper wires to transmit electrons is reaching its limits, according to Intel CTO Justin Rattner. It currently is hitting speeds of 10G bps, and with copper, the faster the speed, the greater the limits on distance. That won't do, particularly with the rapid growth of electronic devices and the data moving between them. Intel officials said that through photonics, data can move with much faster speed—maybe as much as 1 terabyte per second—at much longer distances. The prototype can move data at 50G bps. Rattner and other Intel officials say products with optical interconnect technology could start hitting the market by the middle of the decade. Read the story here. (Photos courtesy of Intel)

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BlackBerry Maker RIM to Name Tablet BlackPad?

BlackBerry maker RIM has reportedly purchased the domain BlackPad.com for its rumored tablet device. If true, it would stack up against the HP PalmPad, Lenovo LePad and, of course, the Apple iPad.

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HTC Droid Incredible Is a 'Google Nexus Two'

Verizon's HTC Droid Incredible, iSuppli discovered during a teardown, might be thought of as the “Google Nexus Two,” so similar are their components. The Incredible carries a bill of materials of $163 to the Nexus One's $174.

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Symantec Storage Sales Issues Led to Flat Quarter

Storage management and security software provider Symantec reports that net income for its fiscal first quarter was $161 million, up substantially over the net of $74 million for the year-ago quarter, but its revenue was flat.

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Dell Launches New Security Appliances for SMBs

The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network security centers on the Dell J-SRX Gateway, a do-it-all appliance that plugs into an IT system to handle multiple layers of security, including antivirus and anti-spam protection and intrusion detection.

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Cisco, NetApp, VMware Combine Forces on FCOE Storage System

A new data storage package consists of VMware-validated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and NetApp FAS series unified storage using Fibre Channel over Ethernet in virtual environments running vSphere.

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RIM BlackBerry 6 Details Continue to Emerge

Building up to its BlackBerry 6 OS rollout, RIM continues to share details in an effort to build excitement. Users can expect a new home screen design.

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Google Refutes Microsoft Rant Against Yahoo Japan Deal

Microsoft lead lawyer Brad Smith called Google's deal to power search and search ads for Yahoo Japan anti-competitive and compared it to Google's failed bid for a similar deal with Yahoo in the U.S. Google respectfully disagreed and chalked it up to fair business practices.

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Dell Streak Will Run Froyo, but Not on T-Mobile

Dell offered new details on the Streak, its 5-inch tablet scheduled to launch by July's end. The Streak will launch with Android 1.6 but later upgrade to 2.2, and it's not compatible with T-Mobile's 3G network.

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HTC Evo 4G Helps Sprint with Apple iPhone Battle

The HTC Evo 4G, despite being in short supply, helped Sprint achieve its best-ever churn rate during its fiscal second quarter — during which it saw $8 billion in revenue but a $760 million net loss.

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Google Users Concerned About WiSpy but Still Prefer Google

Web consumers are concerned about Google's collection of data over wireless networks, but still give the search engine and Web services provider a favorable rating of 74 percent. That's the latest from a poll conducted by Google watchers Consumer Watchdog and Grove Insight, which also found citizens are concerned about their privacy.

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Intel Debuts Optical Interconnect at 50G bps

Intel takes the next step in its efforts to use light to speed up the transfer of data, unveiling a prototype interconnect that uses light to transmit data at up to 50G bps.

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