Japan's NTT Com goes on global data center offensive

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	Japan's NTT Com goes on global data center offensive NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country as part of a push to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Data Protection Made Simple Increasing demands placed on IT, along with tightening budgets has prompted IT leaders to seek out alternative technologies and improved methods of providing backup, archiving and disaster recovery to meet the demands of the 24/7 business. Learn how CA ARCserve provides a single solution that cuts through the maze of data protection complexity. Learn More In this Issue HP quadruples virtual machines in new blade Intel cuts back Itanium plans Startup Pertino among first to market with networking as a service Inmate data paroled from mainframe Cloud-based Amazon data warehouse now available Predicting the Tech Future WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation Storage Management in a Virtualized World Unified storage eliminates the need for separate systems by translating file-oriented storage into block-oriented storage hiding storage complexity from users and storage admins. Learn the questions to ask prospective vendors and steps to take to maximize benefits from virtualized storage. Learn More. HP quadruples virtual machines in new blade Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company's previous offerings. Read More Intel cuts back Itanium plans Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. Read More Startup Pertino among first to market with networking as a service Startup Pertino -- backed by former executives from Packeteer and Apple -- has what one analyst calls the most advanced networking as a service (NaaS) product on the market, available starting today as a public beta. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation The Red Report: Managing Both Your Data and Your Sanity Leverage proven storage expertise to objectively assess your environment and review your options for unified storage, data deduplication, storage tiering and unified storage management to achieve lower costs, higher storage utilization and cloud readiness. Learn More. Inmate data paroled from mainframe There were a number of glaring IT problems facing the Illinois Department of Corrections. The answer: A cloud-based replacement system. Read More Cloud-based Amazon data warehouse now available Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. Read More Predicting the Tech Future For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses. Read More
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