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	HP announces converged storage strategy, products Hewlett-Packard announced a series of upgrades to its storage products, including the addition of data snapshots, and a portfolio of pre-configured storage systems. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Are you maximizing IT efficiency? Optimizing IT efficiency can save time, money, and valuable resources. As the number-one line item in most IT budgets, storage is a good place to start. NetApp customers use half the storage of traditional approaches and can reinvest savings in revenue-generating opportunities. Learn to measure, monitor and improve efficiency and boost your bottom line. In this Issue Dell offers gateway storage appliance Chris Poelker: How to build a cloud-based organization JR Raphael: Apple's iOS 5 and iCloud no threat to Android Riverbed releases cloud storage gateway appliances 2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Transform Business Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Dell offers gateway storage appliance Dell announced a new appliance that allows its block-based storage area network to store file-based data under one unified management interface. Read More Chris Poelker: How to build a cloud-based organization The first step of moving from a traditional data center model into the cloud is typically determined by the state of your IT infrastructure. If you have recent investments in servers or storage and your infrastructure is fairly new, you can begin by introducing virtualization into your existing data center to create your own private infrastructure cloud. If your equipment is old and your expensive maintenance contracts are coming up for renewal, you can move to the cloud by purchasing infrastructure resources as a service from a cloud provider that will run your applications externally in its data center. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Transform Your Business with Video Business video is exploding in popularity. As video becomes increasingly pervasive, businesses need to uncover the most efficient and productive ways to deploy the media. Cisco Services offers four detailed white paper series—plus complementary short videos—that outline practical steps for harnessing the power of video and realizing the best ROI. Go Now JR Raphael: Apple's iOS 5 and iCloud no threat to Android Analysis: Apple's iOS 5 and iCloud are great news for existing iPhone users, but they aren't enough to help Apple stop Android's ever-increasing momentum. Read More Riverbed releases cloud storage gateway appliances Riverbed today announced three new cloud storage appliances targeted at backing data up to the cloud. Read More 2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage The 2011 Marconi Prize, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize in Information Technology, has been awarded to two major contributors to cellular communications: Qualcomm Co-founder Irwin Jacobs and the late information theorist and professor Jack Wolf. Read More
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