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Intel Bolsters Budget SSD Trend With 40 GB Drive March 16, 2010 
Intel is stirring up the marketplace for digital storage with the introduction of a lower-cost, solid-state drive aimed at the value segment of netbooks and laptops. The Intel X25 Value SATA SSD has 40 GB of storage and is priced at $125, adding to the giant chip maker's storage line of 80 GB and 160 GB SSDs.
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Why Keeping the Bar Low May Be Good for Google March 15, 2010 
The Google model survived the dot-com mess but its success seems based largely on the belief that advertising can fund everything. If the users are unhappy, well it doesn't really matter. In fact, Google's customers (the folks paying them money) and the folks they actually serve are quiet different, causing me to question the viability of many of their non-search efforts.
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Data Storage: It's Time to Grow Up March 13, 2010 
Today's data-storage customer has lost his voice in a sea of vendor jockeying and positioning. This glut of vendors creates a noisy industry and a crowded marketplace, where all vendors sound the same and marketing materials are nearly indistinguishable from vendor to vendor.
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7 Steps to the Cloud March 03, 2010 
It was inevitable. With the new year have come indications that, at least to some degree, cloud euphoria is beginning to ebb and is being replaced with perspectives that range from cynicism to realism. It is true that in the past year cloud hype managed to get ahead of the reality. Recent surveys have suggested slow adoption rates in the enterprise, providing cynics with "proof" of failure.
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Bringing Storage Virtualization Out of the Shadows February 17, 2010 
You've heard a lot about server virtualization over the past few years, and many enterprises have adopted virtual servers to improve their ability to manage runtime workloads and high utilization rates to cut total cost. But as a sibling to server virtualization, storage virtualization has some strong benefits of its own.
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The Trembling Foundations of Financial Risk Management February 15, 2010 
Data management itself has never driven financial institutions to undertake a paradigm shift -- it was the realm of the IT person hidden in the basement. However, in today's climate of mistrust, risk management is an even greater priority, and data management programs are having their time in the sun as the industry realizes that a risk management system is only as good as the data filtering into it.
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IBM Taps Power of DAM With Guardium Buy February 04, 2010 
In November 2009, IBM announced its acquisition of Guardium, a privately held company based in Waltham, Mass., and the planned integration of Guardium's Database Activity Monitoring technology into IBM's Information Management and Business Analytics and Optimization initiatives. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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How Smart Can Analytics Get? January 24, 2010 
New architectures for data and logic processing are ushering in a game-changing era of advanced analytics. These new approaches support massive data sets to produce powerful insights and analysis -- yet with unprecedented price-performance. As we enter 2010, enterprises are including more forms of diverse data into their business intelligence activities.
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Free Storage Lures Consumers to Google's Big Desktop in the Sky January 13, 2010 
Google is continuing its march to put the desktop on the Web, with its offer to store files as large as 250 MB in Google Docs. Google is offering 1 GB of free storage for files that are not converted into one of the Google Docs formats -- such as Google documents, spreadsheets or presentation. If more storage space is needed, it can be purchased for $0.25 per GB per year.
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Top 8 Enterprise Server Predictions for 2010 January 13, 2010 
Although the enterprise server market has been among the hardest hit by the suffering economy, there is reason to be hopeful as 2009 draws to a close. I'd like to take a moment to share eight predictions of what we can look forward to in 2010 -- trends that have the potential to dramatically change the enterprise in the years to come.
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PageZephyr Sees What Spotlight Can't December 28, 2009 
General purpose search applications like Spotlight do an excellent job of giving byte-slingers swift access to the content in a panoply of common file types. When it comes to proprietary formats like those created by Quark Express and Adobe InDesign, those file ferrets can be blind as olms.
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Digitizing a Rich Cultural Legacy, French Style December 26, 2009 
France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American Internet giant Google. A new startup launched this month says it may be the answer.
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How Cloud Economics Will Change IT December 02, 2009
As we approach the end of 2009, the hands-down winner of the hot IT trends award continues to be cloud computing. Yet the reality is that for many, cloud deployment strategies remain somewhat ethereal -- part theoretical, part vendor/marketing hype, and part vaguely defined future model. At the same time, the intensity of interest in the cloud approach has been almost unprecedented.
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New Pogoplug Brings Mobile Devices Into the Cloud November 20, 2009 
On Friday, Cloud Engines launched a bigger, shinier version of its Pogoplug USB file-sharing device/service. This will let users share files, photos and videos directly from USB drives or memory sticks plugged into the Pogoplug device with friends or clients over the Internet.
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Pre-integration is the Ticket With Cisco-EMC Cloud Venture November 04, 2009
Cisco is broadening its footprint with a major move into the cloud computing space. The company has formed a far-reaching partnership with EMC -- a joint venture in which VMware, a majority owned subsidiary of EMC, will also play a large role. Called "Acadia," the new entity is marketing vBlock infrastructure packages, aka "vBlocks."
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Maintaining Integrity and Security in a Data Migration November 04, 2009 
Data migrations these days have become a necessary evil in every IT environment. The rapid rate at which hardware and software becomes outdated, coupled with a need to save costs by taking old assets off the books as soon as possible, means that data migrations are something no one can avoid.
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