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The company said its StorageTek VTL Prime data deduplication lowers the overall cost of physical storage by storing only unique data.

DataCore Software introduced a product in SANharmony, the next generation of storage virtualization that harmonizes NAS with SAN. DataCore also underscored the traction its new SANmelody-based Feature Packed Solutions are garnering by making the virtual enterprise a reality at SMBs throughout North America. Additionally, DataCore promoted its most recent industry success in becoming a Citrix Ready storage virtualization solution.

Commercial data Systems (CDS) has introduced a new Server and storage Virtualization practice to its portfolio of Technology Solutions. CDS' latest offering employs an innovative, end-to-end approach to virtualization that eliminates the risks and costs associated with traditional 'point in time' and 'silo' methodologies. Developed in conjunction with NetApp, CDS Server and storage Virtualization leverages the company's extensive expertise in architecting and deploying highly available storage solutions for mission-critical environments.

Offers data reduction for primary storage, not justbackup.De-duplication has become popular for backup data, but not for primarystorage. Now, US start-up company Ocarina Networks wants to change that, with adata reduction technology which it claims can shrink live production data too -even if the file formats are already compressed.

HP Monday is unveiling add-ons for its storage products that enable automated encryption of data stored on tape drives and virtual tape libraries.

Oracle’s ORION workload tool enables architects to effectivelydevelop a workload that can mimic and stress a storage array in the same manneras planned applications with an Oracle backend database.

It's no longer all about the perimeter, says NetApp's Tim Russell at storage network World: Instead, IT needs to focus on storage as costs and regulations mount.