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Blue Coat swoops in to acquire Packeteer for $268M
Blue Coat emerges as Packeteer's "white knight" and looks to gain share in WAN optimization by integrating Packeteer's QoS into its ProxySG product. Article
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Omneon to provide storage systems for NBC's Olympics coverage
Omneon Inc. will provide storage systems, media servers and transport engines to NBC during the network's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It is expected that there will be more than 3,000 hours of footage that will need to be stored and transp... Article
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Storage budgets in movie industry rated S for skyrocketing
Making a single movie can require more than 2 TB of storage capacity. High-definition TV, 4K high-resolution cameras, archiving digitized files and rendering are all part of why storage budgets in the entertainment industry are skyrocketing. Article
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Seagate sues maker of solid-state drives for EMC Symmetrix
Amid claims and counterclaims, some observers suggest that the lawsuit shows that solid-state disk drives have finally arrived as an enterprise storage play. Article
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SNW Notes: Encryption focus shifts to disk drives
With vendors, such as EMC, IBM, Seagate and LSI on board, disk encryption becomes hot; Marriott goes green with underground data center. Article
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Xiotech, Atrato forge market for self-healing storage
New disk array designs use sealed componentry, resulting in storage systems that may not need servicing for five years or more. Article
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SNW Roundup: Sun adds data deduplication to VTL
Sun comes out with VTL Prime, a virtual tape library with FalconStor's data deduplication; Attune gets into file archiving; and SGI, Fujitsu, Dot Hill launch storage systems. Article
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Symantec, Microsoft settle Veritas lawsuit
Symantec and Microsoft settle Veritas lawsuit, EMC ships consumer NAS storage to China, and Google bundles in email archiving with Apps Premier. Article
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Isilon reveals turnaround plan
Clustered storage vendor vows to continue to spend on product development, sales and marketing, despite losing nearly $27 million in the first year as public company. Article
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Packeteer spurns Elliott, in talks with other suitors
Packeteer rejects an offer from hedge fund investors and adopts a poison pill while negotiating with other potential acquirers. But the original suitor still wants to make a deal. Article