Enterprise Storage

Symantec de-duplication strategy targets data growth, virtual machines

Vendor plans several de-dupe product releases over next year

Virginia Credit Union deploys NetApp

* Virtualization was one of the challenges

NetApp’s buy of Data Domain moves closer, even as EMC raises offer to $2.1B

Data Domain stockholder vote scheduled for Aug.14

Rackspace to issue as much as $3.5M in customer credits after outage

Power failures in Dallas facility took customer servers offline last week

Publisher chooses Quantum for deduplication

Mimosa revs up new version of its content archiving system

* Company releases next version of NearPoint

Intel’s X25-E SSD runs circles around rivals

The 64GB SSD boasts impressive I/O performance, stability and reliability

Aster rolls out data warehousing appliances

Pricing starts at $50,000 for up to 1TB of data

Memory virtualization debuts

* RNAcache says the software improved capabilities by 20 times

Samsung shrinks SSDs for netbooks

Samsung's new SSDs are up to 80 percent smaller than its larger cousins, but offer lower storage capacity