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Emulex today said it would review a new buyout offer from Broadcom Corp. to buy all outstanding shares of stock for about $925 million -- some $161 million more than it had previously offered. Read more...

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Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin provisioning and using the capital expenditure saving from that to pay for its server virtualization project, which overall will reduce its power consumption as well.

BlackArmor NAS: Polished, with open-source heart
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a Johnny-come-lately to the NAS market, but Seagate seems to have done its homework. Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is full-featured and flexible, with the promise of further extensibility via freeware and open source widgets in the near future.

NAS Devices From WD, Buffalo, and Iomega
With burgeoning data requirements in even the smallest of businesses, simplifying access to it becomes a major headache. Obviously, dumping data on a PC's internal hard drive and forming a cluster of shared folders sprawled all over the network isn't a viable option anymore, if the shared data has to be accessed frequently. The complexity increases with the advent of devices like laptops, smartphones and PDAs, hooking up to the LAN and trying to access data conveniently through a central location.

Sharing USB devices easily
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Improving local storage capacity and flexibility
I said it years ago, but it's even more true today: you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much data storage. Now that you can buy hard drives holding a terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes) for a little over US$100, you might think storage isn't a problem anymore. But upgrading storage across various desktops and laptops isn't really data storage, it's just data scattered. Organized storage takes some planning, so let's talk about three new products that will help you intelligently increase local storage capacity.

Buying advice: Network-attached storage
A network-attached storage (NAS) drive is a dedicated storage device that uses its own operating system and software to provide centralized storage and file sharing over a computer network. NAS prices have come down to almost standard external hard-drive levels, so if you've thought about sharing one hard drive among multiple Macs or buying an external drive for each, a NAS drive may be more convenient and cost-effective.

Test Center: Sun's stellar NAS in a can
Not so long ago, I tested the Sun Fire X4500 Storage Server, aka Thumper, which went on to win InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year award for Best Storage Server. Thumper was a dual-CPU, dual-core Opteron-based server running OpenSolaris and housing a whopping 48 3.5-inch SATA drives, all within a 4U chassis. The sheer size and scale of that storage server could only be handled by Sun's own ZFS file system. Thumper was a tank in every sense of the word and carved a niche for itself in a wide variety of infrastructures.

Review: 3 NAS devices offer big-time storage for small networks
With today's storage requirements heading into terabyte territory, NAS devices are becoming popular for homes and small businesses. We check out three new units at different price/performance points.

Review: Maxtor's Central Axis -- a networked terabyte for any novice
Maxtor's Central Axis is a network attached storage device that features easy installation and setup and has decent performance, making adding a sharable terabyte a straightforward task.

A terabyte in the palm of your hand: Buffalo's LinkStation Mini
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