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Netapp, EMC, Dell debate the future of storage
VMworld 2010 featured a "Storage Super-Heavyweight challenge" that saw EMC's Chad Sakac, NetApp's Vaughn Stewart and representatives of Dell and HP debate their wares, and the future of storage. We were there and bring you this podcast of the panel. (Tutorial)
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ANZ storage news
- Perth Radiological Clinic upgrades HDS SANs: Perth Radiological Clinic (PRC) has selected twin storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and will use the hardware to create a nearline archive containing seven years of medical images. (News)
- NetApp to clone Melbourne virtualization Centre of Excellence in Germany, USA: (News)
- iiNet to launch cloud backup for business: (News)
News
- HP outbids Dell with $US1.6 bil 3PAR offer: Hewlett-Packard makes surprising $US1.6 billion bid to wrest storage systems vendor 3PAR from its rival Dell; now industry watches to see if Dell will escalate bidding war with a counter offer. (Article)
- Oracle reveals more details of its plans for Sun hardware: (Article)
- Gluster to release virtual NAS: (News)
Backup and recovery
- HDS and EMC's unified plans ridiculed by 3Par, Pillar, NetApp labelled "NotApp": The storage blogosphere has adopted some wonderfully plain speech to describe the current mania for "unified storage" as EMC, HDS, NetApp, Pillar and 3Par sound off. (News)
- Simpana 9 on sale in Q3, adds source-based de-duplication: (News)
- How to beat Bit Rot: (Tip)
Storage industry
- EMC says HDS sells for no profit to beat CLARiiON: EMC’s competitive assessment of Hitachi Data Systems Adaptive Modular Storage product suggests it is being sold at cost price, and says Hitachi’s USP V lacks robust VMware support (News)
- EMC says most of its customers “unaware of ... ease of use improvements to” CLARiiON, Symmetrix: (News)
- 3Par responds to EMC's competitive intelligence: (News)
Site Highlights
- VMware vSphere shared storage guide : Learn about shared storage devices that let you unlock the power of VMware vSphere.
- 8 Network-attached storage devices for small business : Here's a look at the most popular network-attached storage devices for SMBs in the $2,000 to $10,000 price range.
- NetApp to clone Melbourne virtualization Centre : NetApp’s new virtualization Centre of Excellence in Melbourne has a mission to productise its work at CenITex, and will soon be joined by sister centres in the USA and Germany
- Backup software and VMware: Six products compared : This tip explains how the major data backup software packages integrate with VMware Infrastructure 3.
- SAN specialists not required for Exadata implementation : Would-be buyers of Oracle’s Exadata database appliance will be able to operate the machines without storage specialists on staff
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- Guaranteeing uninterrupted access to CSVs for clustered systems (DataCore Software Corporation)
- TechTarget ANZ Data Reduction E-Book (IBM)
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