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Iomega releases new Mac compatible portable hard drives

Aims to help Mac users to meet their data storage needs

Virtualisation needs break through ‘glass ceiling’

Operational issues could hamper future uptake

Hitachi Data Systems enhances Adaptable Modular Storage 2000

Delivers flexibility in virtual server and tiered storage environments

ThinkGrid launches on-demand storage platform

Pay-as-you-go model is cloud ‘stepping stone’

HP enhances virtualisation offerings

Aims to address the complexities and resource costs associated with data centre deployments

Transtec ships Storage Server 2008 appliances

Faster access and lower physical storage

Peer 1 to offer global cloud service hosting

Provides hosting infrastructure for cloud applications providers

Dell plans extended IDM product line

Frames DL2000 as first in intelligent storage line

SanDisk unveils new SDHC card

To provide photography and video enthusiasts with new DSLR capabilities

Rackspace pushes ‘hybrid’ cloud service hosting option

Building out localised data centre and billing options

Comments & Opinion

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

Thought Leaders: running IT as a business

This white paper was written by Professor Paul P Tallon of the Sellinger School of Business and Management, Loyola College, Baltimore, for CBR on behalf of GlassHouse Technologies. It outlines the steps companies can take to treat storage as a service-orientated business, moving IT from being a cost centre to a value centre.

CBR Thought Leaders: IT in a Cold Climate

Is paring IT investment back to the bone the best strategy for surviving the downturn? Dr Richard Williams argues the case against.

Central Station: the rise of the CMDB

Interest in the configuration management database (CMDB) is helping to drive a wave of interest in business service management, or BSM. But is there real value behind the CMDB acronym?

CBR Thought Leaders Series: The Green Light for Green IT

In the first of a new series of articles written by industry thought leaders, Rockwell C. Bonecutter, Accenture’s North America Green IT lead, runs down five ways of making a winning case for green IT.

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