Latest storage news.
Virtual appliances cure appliance bloat, 04/19/07
Over the past few years hardware appliances have become the preferred form factor for deploying specialized IT solutions. Appliances are preconfigured, easy to deploy and simple to manage, and usually offer a compact form factor.
Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: Storage Networking World in review, Part 2, 04/19/07
IBM, Symantec and EMC this week announced software and hardware for managing and protecting data on the network. IBM rolled out a new storage array – the DS3000 – for small and midsize businesses. Symantec introduced new versions of its Backup Exec data protection software, and e-mail and file system archiving software.
Imation to pay $300M for TDK tape, disc division, 04/19/07
TDK has agreed to sell its recording media division to Imation for $300 million in cash and shares, the companies said Thursday.
E-mail: Why it’s next to impossible to lose, 04/18/07
Putting politics aside in the brewing White House e-mail scandal, the real question is: Can e-mail really get lost these days?
From Cisco Subnet: Get your entries in for the Cisco Press book giveaway
There’s only a week left to enter to win the book “The Business Case for Storage Networking” by Bill Williams, published by Cisco Press, plus other books.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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