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VMware and HP Announce Agreement to Embed VMware ESX 3i on HP ProLiant Servers.

VMware and HP have announced VMware's ultra-thin hypervisor software, VMware ESX 3i, is expected to be broadly integrated and available beginning March 31, 2008, on 10 models of HP ProLiant servers. The joint offering helps customers adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. Virtualization helps companies share and pool technology resources to better optimize their datacenters, resulting in greater flexibility to meet business demands and business pressures to reduced costs. Click here to read more.

Source: www.vmware.com

 

NetApp® Extends NAS Leadership, Helps Customers Increase Efficiency and Lower Overheads.

NetApp recently announced the results of a study conducted by VeriTest^TM, the testing service of Lionbridge, comparing NAS deployments running on the NetApp® Data ONTAP® operating system with EMC Celerra deployments running the DART operating system. Among the key findings of the study were that NetApp NAS reduced the amount of raw storage required by as much as 80% compared to the EMC Celerra solution.

The VeriTest study also found that data retention (backup) schedules can be modified nine times faster with NetApp versus EMC, which can help reduce administration overheads. Click here to read more.

Source: www.netapp.com

 

Malice, Misuse, Mistake - Security dangers pile up.

Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home.

Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops left in pubs and disks that go missing in the post. Most recently it was the news that government departments had lost more than 1,000 laptops over the past 10 years.
Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Storage is so cheap that it is almost disposable yet the cost of data breaches is rising significantly.

A study by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by PGP Corporation and Symantec, examined the costs incurred by 21 UK businesses after experiencing a data breach. The breaches varied from 2,500 records to more than 125,000 records from eight different industry sectors.

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Source: www.silicon.com

 

Latest Launch: Quad-Core AMD Opteron^TM processors.

By powering the core and memory controller voltage planes independently, Dual Dynamic Power Management offers increased performance and improved power management. Further power savings can be achieved with Dual Dynamic Power Management as Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will also reduce power to the Northbridge when memory is not in use while continuing to offer full performance in the processor cores.

Servers announcing with Quad-Core AMD Opteron^TM processors:

HP ProLiant BL685c G5
HP ProLiant BL465c G5
HP ProLiant BL485c G5
HP ProLiant DL165 G5
HP ProLiant DL365 G5
HP ProLiant DL385 G5
HP ProLiant DL585 G5

For further information about this launch get in touch with your DTP Account Manager today.