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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, Toshiba, Sun Microsystems, Terradata, Brocade, NEC, Samsung and Lefthand Networks.
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IBM launched a set of new Power7 systems that deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems. The new Power7 systems are designed to manage the most demanding emerging applications, ranging from smart electrical grids to real-time analytics for financial markets. The new systems incorporate a number of unique technologies for the specialized demands of new applications and services that rely on processing an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data while analyzing that information in real-time.
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In partnership with the state of Montana, tech vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, NextIO and Nice have created the "Big Sky" system, the cornerstone of the new Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers. The 3.8-teraflop system, powered by IBM's System p and System x servers and running Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008, is designed to fulfill Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's vision of using technology to be the economic engine that revitalizes the region, which some until now have called "The Great American Supercomputing Desert." The goal is to grow the system to 20 to 25 teraflops, and should demand exceed the RMSC's capacity, workloads can be spilled over to IBM's Computing on Demand cloud computing center.
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Hewlett-Packard introduces Total Records Information Management 7, which enables an enterprise to manage all of its Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment regardless of the source of each document.
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It may be two years late, but Intel's Itanium processor code-named Tukwila offers twice the number of cores as the current version code-named Montecito, with significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel's high-end Xeon server chip, and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes as IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
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Montana’s “Big Sky” supercomputer, powered by technology from IBM, Microsoft, NextIO and Nice, is aimed at revitalizing the Rocky Mountain region by attracting business and jobs to the area. Officials with the Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers wanted to create an environment where any business can get access to HPC capabilities, regardless of their size.
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The company's data backup and storage solution, aimed at cost-conscious businesses, offers users a tiered, monthly pricing structure.
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Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
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The amended Google Book Search agreement to scan millions of books online and sell them to readers remains in limbo in the wake of the Department of Justice's statement that the deal stands to make Google a monopoly in the digital book market. Not only did the DOJ conclude that the deal would make Google a monopoly power in the nascent e-book space, but it questioned whether the lower court even has the authority to preside over the case. Google, authors and publishers may find themselves back at the bargaining table later this month.
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Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly visited New York City to talk with New York Times executives about porting their content onto the company's iPad tablet PC, which is widely expected to be a formidable competitor in the e-reader arena. Companies such as Amazon.com have previously signed deals with The New York Times and other media companies to port media onto their e-readers, although recent tussles between Amazon and book publishers suggest that more deal-wrangling is imminent as the iPad heads towards release.
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The Department of Justice Feb. 4 urged a New York District Court not to bless Google's amended Google Book Search deal with authors and publishers, citing copyright and antitrust issues that render the deal anticompetitive. The DOJ said the deal would let Google be the only competitor in the digital marketplace with the rights to distribute many works in multiple formats. The DOJ further agreed to work with Google, authors and publishers on a viable, fair solution. District Court Judge Denny Chin will hold a hearing on the amended settlement agreement Feb. 18.
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Environmentalist identifies wind, solar and geothermal exchange as three renewable resources with the potential to monetize the power system in the United States in a different manner, wresting control away from "big carbon" industrial companies with profits -- and not the environment -- as their top priority.
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At the Green Grid's Technical Forum, the organization introduces a Power Efficiency Estimator that enables data center operators to compare different possible situations involving power topologies and technologies inside their facilities. The new Power Usage Effectiveness Calculator allows managers to easily input their facilities' specific data at regular intervals to determine their PUE.
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There is a lot to like about storage in the cloud, but getting it wrong can come at a great cost.
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Fusion Garage announced that its controversial JooJoo tablet PC has entered full production, with devices expected to reach consumers by the end of February. The move comes days after Fusion Garage moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by Michael Arrington, which alleges that the JooJoo’s design is a rip-off of his unreleased CrunchPad tablet PC. The name "JooJoo" may be derived from "Ju-Ju," a West African term for objects such as skulls possessed by spirits.
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Egnyte Local Cloud on Network Attached Storage is a hybrid option for small to midsize organizations that want centralized storage and backup that is accessible from the Internet or through a local network connection.
In eWEEK Labs' tests, Lexar's ruggedized JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS survived a stint in the dishwasher and a four-story drop, among other torture tests. And, if anyone was able to compromise the actual device, the data stored on it would be wiped. Using a smart card for authentication and encryption, the JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS is a safe (literally) bet for individuals, but it lacks some of the management capabilities of its rivals.
Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 Network Storage will serve small offices, departments and power users well as a network storage device. New in this version of the relatively low-priced ix2-200 is improved iSCSI support and support for Apple Time Machine, as well as field-serviceable hard drives.
The flagship backup solution boasts up to 240TB of raw, VTL- and NAS-accessible disk space, all wrapped in a management GUI that speeds implementation and eases backup administration burdens.
REVIEW: The Dot Hill 2722 is a 2U RAID storage array that can house as many as 24 2.5-inch drives accessible via dual 4Gb Fibre Channel controllers. eWEEK Labs' tests show that the system is a solid step into the smaller 2.5-inch form factor, with an easy-to-use GUI, good performance and a high-availability architecture.
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