• Storage software sales hit all-time record highs

  By Lucas Mearian | 13 March, 2012 05:39

  The sales of storage software last year produced record revenues of more than $US14 billion in 2011, according to market research firm IDC .

• New datacentre to create 200 jobs: Victorian government

  By AAP | 16 February, 2012 10:15

  A US data company will develop two new centres in Melbourne's west, creating more than 200 new construction jobs.

• Brocade balances SAN base with new data center reality

  By Jim Duffy | 29 December, 2010 10:17

  ith a 65% share of the SAN market, the company is in an enviable position to jump on next-generation data center opportunities

• Fujitsu and Microsoft partner on Azure cloud infrastructure

  By Lisa Banks | 13 July, 2010 09:32

  Fujitsu and Microsoft have joined forces to deliver Windows Azure cloud services and solutions for Fujitsu data centre customers.

• Brocade boosts 10G Ethernet density for data centers

  By Jim Duffy | 02 June, 2010 15:08

  Brocade this week rolled out 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 8Gbps FibreChannel modules for its routers and storage-area network switches designed to increase the wire-speed density of both platforms to better support network consolidation and improve service levels.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  By Jim Duffy | 19 January, 2010 17:34

  Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

Whitepapers about datacentre

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  Case Study: Australian Researchers Cut Backup Time By Nearly a Full Day with DXi Solution

  The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) set out to solve the backup and restore challenges created by expanding data volumes. When IT staff saw how Quantum’s DXi deduplication appliance reduced backup times by 20 hours, enabled restores in minutes, and saved 50 percent in tape media purchases, ACER bought a second unit for disaster recovery protection. Read on.

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  Data Deduplication For Dummies 2011

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  Estimating a Data Centre's Electrical Carbon Foot Print

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  Server and Storage Optimization Techniques