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    Swaps made easier Dell offers an I/O virtualization tool for simplifying blade management.

    Swaps made easier

    Dell offers an I/O virtualization tool for simplifying blade management.

  • BACKUP BASICS

    HP’s dedupe duo

    Tools reduce data backup volumes at large and small companies.

  • NW Panorama

    WAN optimization, the virtual way Cut response times for apps over the WAN – without adding WAN optimization hardware.

    Supercomputing goes green

    A new energy-efficient supercomputer that uses a third of the energy of a conventional system is being tested out at Purdue University

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  • Data as fortress, but modular

    When its winds reach gale force or fire rages, a pre-fab, modular data center might help save the data. Data Storage Today notes the potential in a piece on iFortress, a seven-year-old company that makes metal-based panels that can be assembled into a room capable of protecting equipment against myriad disasters.

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  • Touchy computing

    Not that computer vendors necessarily want to promote sensitivity in the workplace, but these days addressing the touchy-feely has all their attention. Tactile computing, such as demonstrated by Microsoft’s Surface, is one of the most promising areas of electronic-product design, BusinessWeek.com reports. Manipulating through touch gives users more control than they get using a mouse to point and click.

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  • Feds figure out enterprise architecture

    Business folk within federal agencies are starting to come to terms with the concept – and importance – of an enterprise architect, FCW.com reports. The reason is twofold. For one, IT is learning to discuss enterprise architecture in terms that business people can understand – meaning, how technology will improve business function. In turn, business executives are become less skeptical and more willing to listen to the technologists.

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  • 3Tera puffs up Open Cloud vision

    Little vendor 3Tera is going up against giants like Amazon and Google with its notion that openness should prevail among cloud computing services, reports Forbes.com. 3Tera is working to get industry players to embrace its “Open Cloud” standard. Open Cloud would let an enterprise move its virtual IT infrastructure freely among different cloud computing services. Today’s cloud services are proprietary so enterprises are locked into their provider of choice.

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  • NETWORK/SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ALERT

    NetIQ automates security processes by Denise Dubie

    NetIQ this week announced capabilities the security and systems management vendor says will apply IT process automation technology to security and compliance policies.NetIQ, which is an Attachmate business, last year introduced its Aegis IT process automation platform that provides customers with...

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