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	Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes with a cost Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bearer for a series of appliances that combine its software with storage, networking equipment and Sun servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Data Migration with WAN Optimization Migrating large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. It's also necessary for IT tasks such as remote office backup, data center moves, and cloud computing models. The good news is that WAN optimization gets the job done effectively, efficiently, and affordably. Read this technology brief to learn how. Learn More Now. In this Issue INSIDER Avoid disaster with stretched clusters Update: Google Drive launches with 5GB free space IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO How to Use Hadoop to overcome storage limitations Helium 1TB portable hard drive offers hardware encryption G-RAID with Thunderbolt an impressive performer Barbara Krasnoff: Springpad review: A new, more sharing data collector Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue INSIDER Avoid disaster with stretched clusters So-called stretched clusters promise utopia of disaster avoidance and disaster recovery virtualization, but the technology is still new. Here's how to deal with the challenges. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More Update: Google Drive launches with 5GB free space Google today launched its Google Drive cloud storage service, offering 5GB of free space -- an increase of 4GB over what it had been offering users of Google Docs. Read More IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) As expected, Google is going head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive and a gaggle of others, but it's not quite available for everyone yet. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers' heads spin at a plethora of cloud storage choices. Read More Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array HDS's new midrange Hitachi Unified Storage system, which is similar to EMC's VNX array and NetApp's Fabric Attached Storage, can serve up both file- and block-based data through a single management framework. Read More EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication EMC has announced a new Data Domain Boost integration with Oracle Recovery Manager, offering data deduplication on database servers and for Oracle administrators to have direct control of Oracle backup and disaster recovery operations. Read More EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO EMC is in talks to buy flash array storage maker XtremIO for bteween $400 million and $450 million and is close to pulling the trigger on the deal, according to an Israeli publication. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy Understand Your Data: The Future of Backup and Archiving Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves. Learn More How to Use Hadoop to overcome storage limitations Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it have become the biggest challenges for enterprises looking to leverage the information. If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time. Read More Helium 1TB portable hard drive offers hardware encryption The Iomega Helium is a sleek, pocket-sized portable hard drive with a durable aluminum case. The Helium's compact design and matte silver appearance is the perfect aesthetic complement to the Mac, but it boasts only a USB 2.0 interface. Read More G-RAID with Thunderbolt an impressive performer G-Technology's G-RAID with Thunderbolt is a preconfigured RAID 0 storage device that houses two 7200-rpm Hitachi drives in an all-aluminum enclosure. While it's configured as a striped RAID (RAID 0), it can be reconfigured to a mirrored RAID (RAID 1) for data protection by using the Mac OS X Disk Utility. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Springpad review: A new, more sharing data collector Springpad's radically revamped version makes it obvious that the company wants to further distinguish itself by emphasizing its social networking capabilities. Read More Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data The FCC cleared Google of wrongdoing in the so-called 'WiSpy' case. It was the right call, says columnist Mike Elgan, because Google did nothing wrong. Read More Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it. Read More
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