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Legal issues associated with management of cross-border data flows are slowing EMC's storage-as-a-service push. Read more »

Brocade has announced it will acquire Foundry Networks in a $US3Billion deal that advances its vision for next-generation data centre networks and makes it easier to compete with Cisco. Read more »

Quantum is making it easier to manage data de-duplication with updated products. Read more »

Some users report SAP's ERP suite uses more storage than comparable applications. SAP has a new tool in the works to change the situation. Read more »

Hitachi Data Systems has revealed when it will offer solid state disks, 8G Fiber Channel and Fiber Channel over Ethernet. Read more »

IDC says enterprises must think about where they use solid state drives to gain the full benefits of the technology, because the drives write slower than they read. Read more »

A Melbourne Council has dumped backup software vendor CommVault, adopted outsourced disaster recovery and saved half a million dollars over three years. Read more »

SAS drive technology is about to get its first boost in years, with doubled speed and other new features making it a better fit for the enterprise. Read more »

Analysts from IBRS and Ovum say that Thin Provisioning is the next big thing in storage. Read more »

Seagate has announced a 1.5 TB drive, while Hitachi Global Storage has released a new generation of 1 TB machines. Read more »

Sun has updated its storage product lines. Read more »

Adopting a self-service approach to storage can ease your administrative burdens and make virtualisation easier! Read more »

Ian Yates puts NETGEAR's latest small business NAS through its paces. Read more »

Small businesses have many compliance challenges and also have the same reasons to secure their data as their larger cousins, but may lack the resources to secure data. Martha Young therefore explains how smaller organisations can make sure their storage stays safe. Read more »

The great Fibre Channel over Ethernet debate continues, with Cisco poo-pooing Brocade's suggestion the technology is two years away and predicting live deployments next month! Read more »

Solid state disks are still expensive, but their speed makes them compelling in certain applications. Read more »

NetApp officials say to expect OnTap 8, which will integrate NetApp's GX clustering software into its primary operating system, in 2009. Read more »

This tip covers the different types of VHDs in Hyper-V and explains how to work with them using Management Console, virtual hard disk wizard and other Hyper-V tools. Read more »

We conclude our piece on ten email archiving considerations, with considerations six through ten! Read more »

As the booming server virtualisation market spawns new competitors to VMware, how virtual machines connect with storage is becoming a matter of contention among vendors. Read more »