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	Hard drive manufacturers slash warranty periods Seagate and Western Digital are cutting back on hard drive warranties, in some instances from five years to one, in order to save money or redirect it to product development. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue The Grill: Hadoop creator Doug Cutting Japanese game maker to reopen hacked site, says no private data lost Sharky: Oh sure, do it the easy way! 30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011 SDN company helps build clouds WHITE PAPER: Quantum Top IT Cost Justification Considerations ESG survey results reveal a shift in IT spending priorities. Learn how IT leaders are making strategic storage investments and taking a new look at deduplication with lower acquisition costs, scalability from 8 TB to 80 TB, up to 5.8 TB/per hour of performance, and the elimination of protocol lock-in. Read More The Grill: Hadoop creator Doug Cutting Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says he expects the surge in interest in the big-data storage and analytics framework to continue. Read More Japanese game maker to reopen hacked site, says no private data lost Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reopen the site to users by the end of the year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-Discovery and Archiving In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CIO, Network World, and IT World examine some of the hottest issues around e-discovery and archiving today. Read on to discover how some organizations are approaching data-management challenges, and the tools that are available to help. View Now Sharky: Oh sure, do it the easy way! This IT shop has an ongoing problem with low server disk space, thanks to some poor design decisions -- and a log file that just won't stop getting bigger. Read More 30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011 2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs. Read More SDN company helps build clouds Contextream, a developer of network virtualization software for cloud computing, this week announced the availability of Contextream Grid for cloud and managed hosting providers. Read More
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