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• From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

  Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

• 5 tips for surviving a cloud outage

  "Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels.

• Large enterprises handing off data center builds

  Demand for data center space is on the rise. IT pros responsible for facility planning are juggling physical requirements for secure, power-abundant space with operational considerations, including the need to improve disaster recovery, deploy new applications and services, and handle increasingly large data volumes.

• Business continuity emerges as latest IPv6 killer app

  DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

• Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

  As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

• Disaster Recovery on Double Duty

  At Ingram Micro, executive president and CIO Mario Leone doesn't think about how much he will spend on disaster recovery.

• Quantum unveils enterprise-class cloud backup services

  Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments.

• In the cloud, your data can get caught up in legal actions

  We all know that the data we rely on to run our businesses can be subject to subpoena and other government actions. Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud .

• Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD drive delivers speed, sticker shock

  When my editor in chief handed me a Thunderbolt-enabled solid-state drive recently, my first thought was: "I didn't think these existed yet." I was close to being right.

• Who's to Blame When IT Breaks?

  There's always a reason why things break in data centers, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame -- whether that someone is an IT operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider.

• Diskeeper changes name, announces new product direction

  After 31 years of doing business as Diskeeper, the disk defragmentation company announced today that it has changed its name to Condusiv Technologies and is working to reshape its product image.

• CA offers new disaster recovery option

  CA Technologies has launched a disaster-recovery software-as-a-service offering that combines on-site data protection with a cloud-based service, using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure.

• Dell buys AppAssure for software backup

  Dell said Friday it has purchased backup software vendor AppAssure, in the first of an expected run of acquisitions following Dell's appointment of former CA CEO John Swainson as head of a new software division.

• NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

  Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

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  Cloud adoption in Australia not matching predictions: Index

  The adoption of Cloud computing by small to medium businesses (SMBs) in Australia has been slow and is not matching predictions, according to the second annual Acronis Global Disaster Recovery (DR) Index.