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• Storage software sales hit all-time record highs

  The sales of storage software last year produced record revenues of more than $US14 billion in 2011, according to market research firm IDC .

• New datacentre to create 200 jobs: Victorian government

  A US data company will develop two new centres in Melbourne's west, creating more than 200 new construction jobs.

• IDC on 2012: Prepare for Cloud wars, mobile explosion, higher IT spending

  IDC researchers say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas, so much so that "companies like Microsoft, HP, SAP, RIM, and others - including Apple- will face 'crossroads moments' in 2012. By the end of the year, we should have a good idea which vendors will - and won't - be among the industry's leaders at the end of the decade," said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC in a statement.

• iPad improvement: A great keyboard and network app

  I have written several times about my ongoing love affair with the iPad and, surprise, a wave of iPad-related products has been appearing in the Gibbs Universal Secret Underground Bunker.

• Brocade balances SAN base with new data center reality

  ith a 65% share of the SAN market, the company is in an enviable position to jump on next-generation data center opportunities

• Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans

  Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches.

• Brocade boosts 10G Ethernet density for data centers

  Brocade this week rolled out 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 8Gbps FibreChannel modules for its routers and storage-area network switches designed to increase the wire-speed density of both platforms to better support network consolidation and improve service levels.

• SGI changes tack, builds standard data center containers

  SGI is making some big changes to its ICE Cube family of containerized data centers, adding new models that will be able to house standard server racks for the first time.

• Steve Jobs sure to spring WWDC surprises, says analyst

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs will handle keynote duties at the company's annual developers conference in two weeks, Apple confirmed today.

• Juniper seeks to out-virtualize Cisco in data centers

  Juniper Networks' announcement this week of switches and routers designed to flatten and simplify legacy networks is the latest sign that this company has no intention of backing off in the face of ever stiffer data center competition from Cisco, HP and others.

• US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency metric

  Industry groups and government agencies from the U.S., Europe and Japan have reached a basic agreement on how to measure the energy efficiency of data centers, they are expected to say on Monday.

• IDC: Datacentre management remains sloppy

  CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to ComputerworldUK's sister analyst group IDC.

• HP grooms green data center services for small-business market

  HP today unveiled a host of new services aimed at helping small data-center operators boost performance and cut operating costs. Aimed at data centers up to 5,000 square feet in size, these facilities-oriented services include capacity analysis, infrastructure condition and capacity analysis, and energy-efficiency analysis.

• HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center

  From the outside, Hewlett-Packard's newest data center looks like a massive, well-secured loading dock, devoid of logos and surrounded by a robust barbed-wired fence in a nondescript industrial park.

• Cisco to unleash data center extensions

  Cisco is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources among multiple data centers and are optimized for cloud computing and virtualization.