Cloud Computing: Data Protection and Other Legal Issues
Renzo Marchini, Solicitor, Dechert LLP, renzo.marchini@dechert.com

In launching the Digital Europe strategy this summer, the European commissioner for Telecoms and Media Digital, Viviane Reding, highlighted cloud computing as a means of opening up the digital economy to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and thereby boosting the European digital economy. Ms Reding said that “if SMEs could access computing power over the web, they would no longer need to buy and maintain technologies or IT applications and services. Such web based services ... read full article

The Need for Speed: Sorting Out SSD Strengths & Weaknesses
Jim Handy, Member of SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative

SSDs are bursting onto the scene in many forms with a variety of features. This technology is suddenly being presented to the storage user in a vast array of I/O types, speeds, capacities, and internal architectures. This article will explore how a prospective SSD user can evaluate which SSD to use, and explains the role of SNIA's ... read full article

Storage Pros Take on Emerging Technologies: FCoE, Solid State Disk & Block Virtualization
Ken Male, Founder & CEO, TheInfoPro, ken@infopro.com

Since 2002 TheInfoPro (TIP) has been studying key Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure sectors via thousands of in-depth, one-on-one interviews with IT decision makers from the Global 2000 - companies like Deutsche Telecom, BP, Chevron, JPMorganChase and Johnson & Johnson – who use the data for peer benchmarking. We capture detailed technology roadmap data ... read full article

What is FCoE Anyway?
Walter Dey, SNIA Europe Director and Liaison to the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum, www.snia-europe.org/ethernet_storage

Fibre Channel is the technology standard for datacentre SAN environments and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a new extension of Fibre Channel storage protocol that uses Ethernet as it’s physical transmission technology. It is an example of the continued innovation that enhances investments in Fibre Channel-based architectures ... read full article

‘What’s Hot and What’s Not’
Jon Tate, Chair, SNIA Europe UK Committee, ukchair@snia.org

As has been well documented 2009 has so far been a tough year for the data storage industry; but that has not stopped the relentless march forward of new technology, products and initiatives. In fact, 2009 has seen a number of exciting introductions entering the market to live alongside the technologies and products that we are already familiar with. The heat has cranked up around standards, architectures and delivery methods ... read full article

Industry Events

2009

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