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Virtualization is the technology with the potential for having the most “significant impact” on enterprises over the next three years, according to Gartner.
Every year the analyst firm highlights the top 10 technologies and trends it predicts will be strategic for most organizations.
Storage News
Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled its next-generation line-up of midrange storage systems, the Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series.
The company says the ground-breaking new systems introduce a wide range of pioneering technologies previously unavailable on a midrange storage platform.
Aiko Solutions has announced the public release of SecuWipe, a data erasure utility for PDAs and smartphones.
Concerns over smartphone security have been rising steadily, not least because of the handsets’ great capacity for storing large amounts of corporate and personal information.
Managed dedicated hosting provider, SingleHop, has announced that it has completed a free of charge, memory upgrade program.
Over 900 SingleHop customers had less than 2 GB of RAM in their servers when the program commenced in July 2008.
IBM is to introduce a cheaper and less powerful version of it storage virtualization software for use by small and medium sized (SMB) businesses.
The System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software is designed to help improve storage utilization rates, energy efficiency, administrator productivity, availability, and scalability of critical applications.
Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) focuses on creating solutions in new and adjacent technology markets, and is looking for high energy, high impact individuals who want to help shape Cisco’s future by building our next USD $1B business.
Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, and we are currently seeking a Manager of Hardware Engineering to help lead this incubation through to a significant business. Leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.
Almost two-thirds of IT managers are being pressured to reduce their carbon footprints, according to a survey.
The results show that 61 per cent are being directed to cut down on their energy usage and 60 per cent plan to reduce their carbon footprint within the next 18 months.
Hewlett-Packard is to spend USD $360 million in cash to buy storage virtualization company LeftHand Networks.
The company covers two areas currently receiving a lot of attention – allocating storage for virtualized servers and the using Ethernet for storage networks.
Sony is expanding its Memory Stick media with new products that include features such as USB connectivity and pre-bundled movie content.
The latest addition is the HX series of Memory Stick media, which comes in either 4 or 8 GB capacities and has high transfer rates – especially for large capacity files.
SanDisk is to launch what it claims is the world’s largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones – a 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory card.
The fingernail-sized memory cards are aimed at consumers wanting to get the most out of the many storage-intensive features in today’s portable handsets.