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	How to buy the best portable hard drive You can never have too much digital storage, and the day will come--sooner than you think--when you won't be able to squeeze a single new file onto your computer's hard drive. And if your primary computer is a laptop or an all-in-one desktop, you won't be able to solve the problem by opening the case and tossing in a supplemental drive. Read More WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. View this on-demand webcast to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. In this Issue 128TB tape cartridges key to kilometer-size telescope EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers The do's and don'ts of safeguarding cloud-based data with encryption Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? Susan Feinberg: A rainy day can have you rethinking your contingency plans INSIDER Peter Eicher: Snapshots have a visibility problem WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. 128TB tape cartridges key to kilometer-size telescope Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. Read More EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More The do's and don'ts of safeguarding cloud-based data with encryption A good way to secure sensitive data in the cloud is encryption. But there are trade-offs. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Getting Started with VMware vSphere Hypervisor and VMware Go Join us for a look at how to deploy virtualization using VMware vSphere, the industry's best-of-breed hypervisor. Discover how solutions such as VMware Go make deploying VMware server virtualization technology a snap. This webcast will begin with a discussion of the core concepts of virtualization. Learn More Now! Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? An ambitious and attractive new large-format book, "The Human Face of Big Data," aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Here is a sample. Read More Susan Feinberg: A rainy day can have you rethinking your contingency plans The unprecedented impact of Superstorm Sandy is forcing financial institutions to rethink assumptions about disaster recovery, contingency planning, and the vulnerability of on-premise solutions. And as a result, we may see widespread adoption of cloud-based disaster-recovery solutions in which third party data centers in remote, land-locked locations are relied on to conduct mission-critical technology operations while the client institution itself is handling the disaster. Read More INSIDER Peter Eicher: Snapshots have a visibility problem There's a fantastic bakery in my neighborhood where everything is terrific. Whether you're getting bread or cakes or cookies, they are the best in town. Unfortunately, there's one problem.  Nothing is labeled. Insider (registration required) Read More
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