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EMC BRS Data Domain now has Native Oracle RMAN support. This advanced Integration between EMC Data Domain Boost and Oracle Recovery Manager provides a faster and more efficient database backup solution. This allows Oracle DBA’s to centrally manage backup for databases without having to use legacy backup applications.

IT managers at our health care clients understand the benefits of moving to the Cloud, including:

• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through lower energy usage
• Lower operating expenses due to having less servers
• Lower capital expenditures as less servers are required to be purchased each year
• Lower physical space requirements for their IT infrastructure.

Watson, the IBM supercomputer famous for defeating two human champions on Jeopardy! is tackling some serious business: healthcare. The life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotech industries are discovering how this technology can save time, money, and lives.

Recently a pre-validated FlexPod™ has been released which supports Microsoft’s hypervisor software, An entry-level FlexPod has also been announced that will bring the flexibility and scalability (not to mention cost savings) of the private cloud to middle market companies and other smaller groups of users. We would like to take a moment to spotlight one of the tools VMware brings to the virtual table.

Mobile data growth seems destined to continue. But what options remain for organizations that are straining under the burden of storing this data? To block mobile devices from your corporate network would cripple employee productivity and devastate employee satisfaction.

Hitachi understands the challenges your infrastructure environments and storage present. It is critical to ensure that your application environments are optimized and protected while addressing the need to reduce storage costs through easier management. That is exactly where Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 100 Family comes into play.

These are the challenges businesses face on a daily basis. But HP Insight Control offers an ideal solution for your business to manage your IT services effectively and make the most of your investment on server assets, staff, and facilities.

We are excited to announce that more of our customers will be able to afford the transition to the private cloud with FlexPod™. As we alluded to in a blog post last month, Cisco and NetApp have announced plans to extend FlexPod™ with a series of new pre-validated design architectures priced – and sized – for smaller workloads.

Any successful business needs an efficient, reliable data growth management backup system environment while keeping costs reasonable. But with increasing virtual machine counts, keeping backup infrastructure costs under control can be a challenge. HP StoreOnce Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems are worth a look – they provide a disk-based data protection platform, while addressing data growth by applying HP StoreOnce deduplication software for efficient, longer term data retention.

Together with Cisco compute and VMware hypervisor software, NetApp storage is a component of the increasingly popular private cloud architecture FlexPod™. When implementing NetApp into our clients’ infrastructure, we use a number of support tools which improve and stabilize FlexPod™ cloud storage system for enhanced availability, performance, and effectiveness.