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Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.
Sending data between computers and storage systems has been a job handled by a few small, highly specialised companies, but that's changing as new technology allows networking giants such as Cisco Systems to get into the act.
Cisco and RSA have teamed up to develop encryption technology for data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media, combined with key management within storage area network infrastructure.
Compliance and administration headaches are forcing Asia-Pacific corporations to increasingly relocate remote information back to their data centres, leading storage vendors said.
Networking giant Cisco Systems' new ventures in the storage market have piqued the interest of IT buyers, but the company may have to "earn its stripes," according to a new survey.
Cisco Systems has introduced two new switches in its storage area networking portfolio that are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
The networking giant will soon begin to sell switches that use Big Blue's software for managing and storing huge pools of data.
Compliance and administration headaches are forcing Asia-Pacific corporations to increasingly relocate remote information back to their data centres, leading storage vendors said.
IBM and Cisco Systems are going to know each other a lot better in computing rooms.
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