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	Cloud storage device maker Cirtas stumbles Cirtas last week took a bump and laid off most of its staff, saying there were operational problems with its Cirtas BlueJet Controller that needed to be retooled for extensibility. The startup, which has received $32.5 million in funding, is the latest company to pull out of the crowded cloud storage arena. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Wi-Fi Provides RX for Healthcare Challenges This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. Read now! In this Issue US goes after some game-changing energy projects Harmonizing Wireless and Wired Access Networks Paradise Lost: How the Amazon outage set cloud computing back years, but helped Cisco Where is Amazon's public apology Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! US goes after some game-changing energy projects Taking aim at developing some progressive energy technologies the US Department of Energy said it will write a $130 million check to develop five areas, including plants engineered to replace oil, thermal power storage, rare earth alternatives and what it calls the energy equivalent of an Internet router. More energy projects: Energy research projects were on fire in 2010 Read More WEBCAST: Quantum Corporation Tape's Evolving Data Storage Role Industry research shows that the best technology for a company's storage needs is a combination of technologies. Join Greg Schulz, founder and senior advisor of The Server and StorageIO Group, for a discussion of trends and perspectives of the storage industry, and how you can gain more value out of your IT data center resources. View now! Harmonizing Wireless and Wired Access Networks A key trend in enterprise networks is the creation of two separate LANs: data center and access. Data center networks feature high-speed, low-latency, high-bandwidth fabrics designed to move large amounts of data between servers and storage platforms, while access networks are typically designed to provide ubiquitous access to a variety of devices while securing against unauthorized use and prioritizing... Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Virtualization Pain Relievers In these articles, Computerworld, Network World and their sister publications CIO and InfoWorld explain the nuances of storage virtualization, as well as explore the benefits and challenges. Read now! Paradise Lost: How the Amazon outage set cloud computing back years, but helped Cisco The New York Times said "Amazon's Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts." I think that this is the best thing that could have happened for Cisco. While the problem that effected AWS and its many customers is not a good thing at all and I feel bad for all of those companies, Cisco has an opportunity. Many customers who are in the cloud or are thinking about the cloud will be rethinking any... Read More Where is Amazon's public apology Let me apologize in advance if I have somehow overlooked it, but here we are five days after the start of Amazon's calamitous EC2 collapse and the company has yet to issue a public apology. This is Public Relations 101, no? So what's the holdup? (I'm going to guess lawyers, but that's strictly a guess.) Read More Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as whether Cisco will buy EMC, how the iPad might be used at work and how to improve Ubuntu. Read More
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