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  Q&A: Edith Cowan University, manager of IT infrastructure, Angus Griffin

  Griffin sat down with Computerworld Australia to discuss some of the major issues facing IT managers today and what’s next for ECU.

• IIIS: More pictures from the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium

  Data governance, risk, compliance and much more

• Carbon tax may drive storage virtualization uptake: Hitachi

  The introduction of the new carbon tax on 1 July, 2012 may mean increased energy costs for the IT industry, but at least one storage virtualization vendor has been gearing up for a predicted increase in sales.

• ACU trades NetApp for EMC

  Suffering from poor performance and rapidly approaching capacity, the Australian Catholic University (ACU) made the decision to find a replacement for its NetApp storage infrastructure.

• Charter Hall to migrate to virtual Windows 7 desktops

  Property funds management and development company Charter Hall Group will join the growing number of Australian enterprises taking the plunge to deploy desktop virtualisation across the organisation.

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  Data backup problems still plaguing storage industry

  Businesses are struggling to backup their data quickly due to outdated infrastructure and slow systems, a storage industry leader has claimed.

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  Storage Virtualization: When to Invest

  Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage virtualization enables IT departments to decouple data from dedicated devices. An appliance serves as a go-between from applications and operating systems to the mass storage, enabling you to manage them all using one console. Thirty-eight percent of IT professionals surveyed recently by CIO said they are piloting or have deployed virtual storage technology, and another 31 percent are interested in it.

• Start-up Infineta attacks data center connection logjams

  Start-up Infineta Systems is coming out of stealth mode just in time to reveal that it is working on one of the knotty problems raised this week at the EMC World conference – how to connect data centers efficiently for backup, replication and cloud services that rely on live migration of virtual machines.

• Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers

  A storage start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.

• US veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal

  With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.

• IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

• EMC adds virtual machine management to Clariion arrays

  EMC Corp. today introduced new virtualization-aware capabilities for its Clariion CX4 midrange networked storage systems, which make CX4 software and disaster recovery applications aware of connected virtual machines.

• Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line

  Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger enterprises.

• NetApp CEO: Virtualization driving sluggish storage market

  Storage companies are feeling the pain of companies cutting IT costs and overall spending, but the move to server virtualization is driving some demand, according to NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven.

• ParaScale pushes private storage clouds

  Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a redundant and self-healing private cloud of storage.