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	IBM's 120 petabyte drive could help better predict weather IBM has proved it can cluster together more than 2,000 hard drives to create a 120 petabyte storage system that appears as one massive disk drive that could help in computer modeling of weather. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum 7 Questions to Ask before You Dedupe Deploying data deduplication in a midrange data center requires careful consideration. This paper will guide you through key questions, from estimating benefits in backup speeds and reducing failed backups. Read More In this Issue VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds Iomega releases new 12-bay NAS array NoSQL offers scalability, flexibility, speed Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability IT Blogwatch: Wikileaks data leaked; Website denies it, via Twitter Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards Red Cross comm team ready for disasters Dell set to launch public cloud service WHITE PAPER: IBM Taming the Data Demons Taming the data demons: leveraging information in the age of risk explores the framework and advantages of a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both IT and line-of-business executives with the "why" and "how" to begin putting an end-to-end data risk management program to work in your organization. Learn more VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced. Read More New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, according to the results of a survey by The Data Warehousing Institute. Read More Iomega releases new 12-bay NAS array EMC's Iomega subsidiary announced a new top-of-the-line network storage array, which ratchets up the power and performance. Read More NoSQL offers scalability, flexibility, speed Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability and flexibility, judging from a number of sessions at the NoSQL Now conference held recently in San Jose, Calif. Read More Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Unified Content Security in Practice This paper introduces the Websense TRITON™ solution — the industry's first and only solution to combine industry-leading Web security, email security, and data loss prevention security technologies into one unified architecture. Learn more. IT Blogwatch: Wikileaks data leaked; Website denies it, via Twitter The Wikileaks website's secret cables have themselves been leaked -- allegedly in their unredacted form, although Wikleaks spokestweeps tweeting on Twitter tweet that the allegations are tosh. Naturally, people are concerned for the safety of the original informants. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers take a leak. Read More Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston. While employees in other locations had access to the data center, the central office was offline and out of the communications loop. Read More Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards Fusion-io has bundled virtualization software from its IO Turbine acquisition with its PCIe-based solid-state storage adapter card. The goal: serve up flash cache to multiple VMs on a single physical server. Read More Red Cross comm team ready for disasters While most businesses back up data and records as potential disasters approach, the American Red Cross has a communications and information systems infrastructure built to bring key data into areas ravaged by storms like Hurricane Irene. Read More Dell set to launch public cloud service Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. Read More
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