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Nimbus Wants to Upset Enterprise Storage Market with Flash Storage
Nimbus Data Systems (www.nimbusdata.com) has unveiled its vision—Sustainable Storage—and architecture—S-class—for enterprise network storage that is believed to be the first all-solid-state-drive-based (SSD) solution for the same price as enterprise-class hard disks. The price/performance claims are impressive, but analysts caution that the claims remain to be substantiated in the real world. "This is clearly a stand-alone…
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Virtualization Rises as the Star of Networking Event
More than 80 percent of the products and solutions unveiled at this year’s Interop networking trade show are related to virtualization, representing a seismic shift in the culture and future of a technology space that has been dominated by switches, routers, and, well, networking technology. Today it’s about the data center. The three C’s of…
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Cisco CleanAir Technology Offers WLAN Troubleshooting
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – At the Interop IT Expo and Conference, Cisco Systems unveiled new CleanAir Technology comprised of spectrum analysis and diagnosis tools designed to help wireless administrators maintain more stable and consistent wireless LAN performance. Comprised of a new line of Aironet access points with specialized embedded detection hardware and new software revisions…
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EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp Stand to Gain in Growing Storage Market
Regardless of what’s happening with the economy, the amount of data to be stored is still growing at more than 50 percent per year, and the length of time that data must be retained is being extended, too. This means it’s a very good time to be among the vendors—EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp—selling storage…