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Integration of Oracle/Sun Australian operations commences

Integration of Oracle/Sun Australian operations commences
Integration of Oracle and Sun’s Australian businesses is believed to have begun following Oracle’s official takeover of the Sun Australia subsidiary on March 1.
Breaking News
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    Resellers: Microsoft EBS not given a chance 11 March, 2010 12:52:00

    Several Australian SMB resellers says they are disappointed over the vendor's decision to dump Essential Business Server
    Microsoft’s decision to [[artnid:338666|can Windows Essential Business Server (EBS)]] has been met with disappointment from SMB-focused Australian resellers.
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    IT disaster recovery goldmine 11 March, 2010 02:42:00

    Savvy companies prepare for the worst
    The global market for business IT continuity and disaster data recovery solutions will grow from $24.3 billion in 2009 to exceed $39 billion in 2015, according to ABI Research.
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    Microsoft envisions ultra-modular data centers 04 March, 2010 12:28:00

    The software giant is experimenting with efficient designs that can be ramped up quickly when it needs capacity
    In the years to come, Microsoft's data centers may not be huge buildings tightly packed with server racks, but rather rows of small, stand-alone IT units spread across acres and acres of cool, cheap land.
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    Integration of Oracle/Sun Australian operations commences 09 March, 2010 12:34:00

    Full details still to be announced but Goodlace leaves Sun
    Integration of Oracle and Sun’s Australian businesses is believed to have begun following Oracle’s official takeover of the Sun Australia subsidiary on March 1.
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    Server market dips but is expected to grow 05 March, 2010 14:01:00

    Most vendors experience growth but not Sun
    Despite a decline in server shipments in 2009, analyst firm Gartner is predicting growth in the x86 server space.
Features
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    Protect data with on-the-go drive encryption 03 March, 2010 03:59:00

    Whether on a USB drive or a mobile phone, data is going out the door--but what if the device is lost?
    This past January, the health organisation Kaiser Permanente reported a theft of an external hard drive from an em­­ployee's car. The hard drive contained data on about 15,500 Northern California patients, including their full names, medical record numbers, and, in some cases, gender, dates of birth, and other info on treatment and care received at Kaiser (but not patients' social security numbers or financial data).
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    Data warehousing vendors squabble over flash memory 02 February, 2010 04:45:00

    Speed takes preference over storage capacity in 2010
    Scalability has been the buzzword for data warehousing vendors over the past several years, with the standout questions being, how many petabytes of data can I store? And how many servers and nodes?
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    Storage wrinkle: 4,500 flash drives left at the cleaners 22 January, 2010 08:39:00

    Another 12,500 mobile devices were left in cabs, study finds
    Lost a thumb drive with important data on it? Check with your dry cleaner. A survey by a U.K.-based company shows that in the last year, 4,500 USB flash drives were forgotten in pockets of clothes left at the dry cleaners, and thousands more handheld devices were left in the backseats of taxis.
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    Google Docs: Not the only free cloud storage in the sky 14 January, 2010 01:30:00

    Here are four existing alternatives to Google's new storage offer - and the strengths of each.
    In the coming weeks, Google Docs users will be able to store more of their important files online, where they can access them easily and share them with others, according to a Tuesday post on The Official Google Blog.
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    Storage industry tackles making sense of metadata 07 January, 2010 09:02:00

    The storage industry is turning its focus to helping us managing our data, not just warehouse it.
    Here is a wager I bet I will win. How many of us took a photo, saved a video, or downloaded a music track and have no clue where it's hiding today? Maybe it's buried somewhere on your PC's hard drive or in one of dozen external drives.
Interviews
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    Seizing the day 27 October, 2009 16:33:00

    Personal Innovation, Sales Excellence - Chris Moyle
    Plenty of kids grow up with dreams of taking to the skies as pilots, but EMC channel manager, Chris Moyle, was one of the few to make it a reality.
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    Q&A: Why Apple's co-founder is hot on solid state storage 14 October, 2009 03:59:00

    Steve Wozniak joins a storage start-up and sees similarities to his early Apple days
    Earlier this year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak accepted the position of chief scientist at start-up solid state drive company Fusion-io. It's the first time since 1972, when he worked in Hewlett-Packard Co's calculator division, that he's held a technologist's position for a company that wasn't his own.
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    Quantum CEO on EMC's buyout of Data Domain 31 July, 2009 09:05:00

    EMC still needs to sort out its plans for data deduplication, he says
    Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of single-instancing technology could be in jeopardy. Quantum resells both its tape libraries and dedupe software through EMC, sales that amount to less than 10% of its revenue.
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    Playing to your strengths 18 February, 2009 14:55:00

    Westcon Group is confident its focus on core technologies such as collaboration, security, storage and networking will help it ride out the economic storm. General manager, Wendy O’Keeffe, caught up with ARN to discuss the state of the market and the distributor’s position in 2009.
    Westcon Group is confident its focus on core technologies such as collaboration, security, storage and networking will help it ride out the economic storm. General manager, Wendy O’Keeffe, caught up with ARN to discuss the state of the market and the distributor’s position in 2009.
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    Building a channel business with your hands 21 January, 2009 11:16:00

    NetApp partner director, Scott Morris, is passionate about channel development. He spoke to ARN about his distribution and vendor heritage, working outdoors and helping staff reach their potential.
    What was your first job?
Opinions
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    Editorial: Venturing into new territory 28 January, 2009 13:59:00

    Cisco throws down the gauntlet
    Rumours that Cisco is plotting its very own server offering have been circulating for over a month now, but it was a blog entry from the networking giant’s CTO that shows the scope of the vendor’s plans.
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    All about how to do more with less 05 November, 2008 07:39:00

    Storage Insider
    The Storage Networking World show in Dallas seemed to me to represent a microcosm of the widespread concerns about the economy. There was a good deal of focus on how to do more with less, and my perception was that it was a quieter, more somber conference than usual. However, that's not to imply that there weren't some significant happenings. Here are some of the items that struck me as particularly notable:
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    Why Microsoft won't dominate the cloud 28 November, 2008 10:30:00

    Microsoft is the wrong company at the wrong time to dominate the cloud computing architecture of the future
    It's no surprise that Microsoft has its eye on the cloud. Cloud computing, that is.
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    Cloud computing. More than blue sky thinking 28 November, 2008 10:23:00

    If the drip, drip, drip effect of cloud computing works for some of the most popular IT services of today, you can be sure it will seep into mainstream IT soon.
    Looming on the horizon are the nimbus, cirrus, stratus and cumulus that threaten to deliver us cloud computing imminently. Promising an end to most of the challenges and frustrations of IT systems as we know them, the concept of cloud computing is thundering through the business community to become one of the most talked about and revered subjects of the day.
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    50 per cent off storage 08 October, 2008 08:36:00

    Storage Insider
    Storage vendors of every stripe have been feverishly working to hitch their wagons to the server virtualization juggernaut. Going far beyond the basic integration and certification activities that one would expect for support of a popular application, storage products are integrating management functionality and working to develop other ways to distinguish and differentiate their VMware support.
Reviews
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    Small business storage finds a new gear 16 February, 2010 05:29:00

    Synology's supercharged DS1010+ Swiss Army NAS boasts impressive numbers in both performance and price
    I continue to be very impressed with Synology's small business storage products, and the new DS1010+ is no exception. In fact, it elevates my opinion even more. This feature-packed, speedy, and remarkably affordable five-bay storage array supports just about every file sharing protocol available, can scale up to 20TB of raw storage, can be expanded on the fly, and has a great GUI. It can be purchased for $1,750 with 5TB of raw storage, and it can push 100MBps streaming writes and 110MBps streaming reads. Sure, it's not an enterprise-class device, but look at the price. What's not to love?
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    Smart Storage Options for Home PC Data 09 February, 2010 04:57:00

    A look at storage and the impact of the cloud
    There's storage and then there's storage: There's storage that's really just backup, and there's storage of the stuff you work with frequently. The reason I'm making the distinction is that many of us are now backing up to the cloud. And that's a good thing; in some ways, cloud options can be more secure and more convenient than backing up to hardware.
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    Two SSD kits make disk upgrades easy 09 September, 2009 09:22:00

    With a kit, you get the tools to upgrade as many computers as you like
    With solid-state disk (SSD) drives becoming more popular for laptops, users may find themselves in the position of upgrading the hard disk drive (HDD) in an older machine to get the reliability and speed that comes with flash memory technology.
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    Review: SanDisk one-touch backup drive offers simplicity, sophistication 14 May, 2009 14:10:00

    But users will pay a price for the USB flash drive's convenience
    While many external drives now come with a physical push-button backup option, a new genre of backup devices is emerging: one-touch USB flash drives that combine the convenience of small size with relatively sophisticated backup applications for data protection.
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    Samsung's 256GB SSD offers capacity, speed 02 March, 2009 08:48:00

    But tests yield slower read speeds than Samsung claims
    But tests yield slower read speeds than Samsung claims
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