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HP and 3Par Sign Definitive Merger Agreement

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 00:00
Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for US$2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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Cisco, Itron to Jointly Design Smart Energy Grid Communications

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 00:00
Cisco and utility metering company Itron have agreed to jointly develop a standards-based IP-based communications platform for smart energy grids.
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Brocade Set to Unveil 100G Ethernet

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 00:00
Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.
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Brocade Set to Unveil 100G Ethernet

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 00:00
Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.
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Eight Great Virtual Appliances for VMware, Free for the Downloading

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 00:00
The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find.
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More IT Managers Plan to Spend Less, Oracle Struggles with Users, Survey Finds

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 00:00
A survey by research firm TheInfoPro indicated that IT managers plan to spend less this year and next on data storage systems, preferring to do more with what they already have.
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Xsigo Gives Ethernet a Path Into Converged I/O

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 00:00
I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port built into a server.
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Networks Blighted By Poor Configuration

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 00:00
The biggest security threat to most networks could be the people paid to look after them, an informal survey of IT professionals has suggested.
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VMware VCloud Director Gets Zenoss Monitoring App

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 00:00
Zenoss releases a cloud monitoring application for VMware vCloud deployments
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Cisco Patches Bug That Crashed 1 Percent of Internet

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 00:00
Cisco has fixed a bug in its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software that contributed to a brief Internet blackout last week, thought to have affected about 1 percent of the Internet.
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Virginia's IT Outage Continues, 7 Agencies Still Affected

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 00:00
Public agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to experience intranet service outages as the result of a memory card failure in a storage area network managed by outsourcer Northrop Grumman.
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Research Experiment Disrupts Internet, for Some

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 00:00
An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic.
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Purdue App Slows Servers When Cooling Fails

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 00:00
An administrator from Purdue University has developed software that can slow servers when the AC goes out
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The InfoWorld SAN and NAS Virtualization Primer

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 00:00
How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels
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Microsoft's Big Bing Theory Targets Google

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 00:00
It's time to wait and see whether the search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo can make a dent in Google's huge lead over its top opponents.
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Brocade Suit Alleges A10 Copied Foundry

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00
Brocade Communications claims in a suit filed earlier this month that the founder of A10 Networks improperly used trade secrets and recruited top employees in order to build application delivery products that competed with those offered by Brocade.
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EMC Offers Upgrades to Automated Tiering, Clariion and Celerra Arrays

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00
EMC today announced several upgrades to its Clariion and Celerra storage devices and said it is shipping its Unisphere management software.
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Ring! it's Gmail's New Voice Feature Calling

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00
Google announced Wednesday it is offering the ability to make phone calls over the Internet via its popular Gmail service.
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Social Security Administration to Award Massive Network Deal

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00
The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services following Qwest's successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards to Verizon and AT&T.
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Bossies Awards 2010: the Best Open Source Software of the Year

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00
Top picks: Open source platforms, middleware, applications, and application development tools.
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