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Cache-serving modules and appliances for HPCNetApp is trading in its current midrange FAS3000 and V3000 storage systems for some boxes with a bit more power capacity under the chassis..

On the keynote stage at Apple's 2008 Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs looked like a man who could use a Gatesian escape from the glass house to a quieter life spent in pursuit of passions that a CEO hasn't time to explore. The difference between Steve and Bill is that Steve's passion is already in his grasp. iPhone can be seen as a culmination point for much of what Steve has set his mind, hand, and brain trust to in the past decade.It is important to strike a distinction between iPhone 3G, the $199 handset ($299 with a memory upgrade from 8GB to 16) that will ship on July 11, and iPhone 2.0. The latter, while less celebrated, is the more significant. iPhone 2.0 is the firmware, operating system, drivers, and applications that run iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch. All users of these devices will be able to download iPhone 2.0, and once installed, the new software will bring all devices into functional parity, except for the 3G high speed data and GPS autolocation enabled by

Netbackup integrates de-dupe and CDPSymantec Vision '08 Symantec's data protection suite received its annual booster shot of new features at Symantec Vision in Las Vegas this year..

Virtual Cloud Computing represents the next wave of virtualization and offers significant market opportunities by providing a new, simpler, and much more pervasive platform for on-demand, desktop and application service delivery. While server-side virtualization helps enterprises optimize data center resources, the use of a universal dialtone technology offers a significantly larger market for desktop users in both commercial and consumer segments. The key to virtual cloud computing is in the universal dialtone which securely links users to desktop applications and content resources, on demand, via any device.

Project Big Green yields data centers that cut energy use in half and can be expanded in Lego-like building blocks.

Storage management with a server virtualization twistSymantec Vision '08 Symantec is teaming up with Citrix to attack the server virtualization market. The storage management firm has stirred Citrix's Xen code into its Veritas suite in a new offering arriving later in 2008..

Kaspersky tries to round up crypto experts to crack encryption code used to lock up data files on computers infected with a ransomware-type of virus.

Microsoft is making System Center, its central management scheme, natively manage Linux, Unix and VMware virtual servers. The widgetry has always been a Windows-only affair, but now there are betas available showing off Microsoft's cross-platform prowess, important to Microsoft's place in the data center. Microsoft has released a public beta of so-called Cross-Platform Extensions to its System Center Operations Manager 2007, which for the first time can manage HP-UX, Red Hat, Solaris and SUSE out-of-the-box.

Social scientists are using electronic data to study patterns of people on the move.

Symantec announced it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization platform. The company also made several upgrades it it Veritas NetBackup product.