CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

CloudBerry Backup is also available as a Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.

Although global shipments of blade servers are set to decline in 2009, the market is expected to return to robust double-digit growth during the following years as global economic conditions improve, according to iSuppli.

Blade server shipments will amount to 1.04 million units in 2009, down 9 percent from 1.14 million in 2008. This contrasts sharply with the 31.1 percent increase in 2008.

A recent IDC survey investigating server virtualization deployments in vorious organizations reveals that the technology is transforming server, storage, and networking infrastructure and even more so the way their datacenters are and will be built and managed.

The survey also suggests that many users are pushing their virtual server environments to the limits, which is causing several problems, such as virtual server sprawl and storage I/O bottlenecks.

DataCore Software, the provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced that it has teamed up with Citrix Systems to distribute a free to try, downloadable, DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance. The company also released a Citrix StorageLink adapter to integrate its storage virtualisation solutions with Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Virident Systems has appointed industry veteran Bob DeMartino to drive the growth of its GreenCloud server platforms in Web 2.0 data centers.
DeMartino joins Virident from Sun Microsystems bringing over twenty years of sales and market development experience with both large, established enterprise and start-up technology firms.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has announced that it has developed the world’s first 32 Gigabyte (GB) DDR3 module – for use in server systems.
The new module operates at 1.35-volts, in support of the global trend to cut power usage in mass storage computing environments.

Jakarta-based PT Garuda Indonesia is Indonesia’s flag carrier. Recently, the airline has been challenged by competing international airlines and budget carriers as well as changing economic conditions—placing pressure on the company to maximize its efficiency and effectiveness.This case study describes how Garuda Indonesia deployed a series of high-performance Dell™ PowerEdge™ M600 blade servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors in PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosures to help boost the efficiency of its business operations and support key front-end SAP® and Microsoft® applications. The blade servers, which connect to a set of Dell/EMC CX3-20c storage area network (SAN) arrays, have enabled the company to reduce its power consumption by as much as 40 percent and reduce its data center footprint by 50 percent—helping optimize energy use while maximizing data center performance and density. Although many servers are running in Garuda Indonesia’s data center, the company has entrusted the Dell blades with running the most critical front-end applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The Dell OpenManage™ suite, meanwhile, helps simplify server deployment, management, and problem resolution.Garuda Indonesia has received positive feedback from users of applications that run on the blades and from the IT staff benefiting from improved ease of management. Looking ahead, Garuda Indonesia wants to further enhance its operations with new customer-facing applications and the delivery of new fleets for long-haul flights to Europe, and is confident that Dell can help them scale to meet new demands.

Fujitsu has launched a new-generation blade server system as a key part of its global growth program to boost its market share for x86 servers.
The PRIMERGY BX900 is a complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single blade cube.

IBM has broadened its lineup of Express Advantage products for midmarket with the launch of BladeCenter Express servers, a new data protection hardware/software package.
It also unveiled the LotusLive Meetings hosted Web conferencing service.

As Oracle prepares its USD $7.4bn acquistion of Sun Microsystem, figures have emerged about the server and software maker's latest quarter losses.
Sun announced on Tuesday that it lost USD $201 million in the three months ended March 29. A year ago, Sun lost USD $34 million.

The global utility storage provider 3PAR has announced the launch of its InServ F400 Storage Server, writes Samanatha Sai for storage.biz-news.
The company says it is the fastest single-system midrange storage array based on the results of the audit and peer review SPC-1 submitted to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) - a vendor neutral standards company.

Most industries acknowledge that increasing IT Storage needs is a fact of life even in the face of economic downturn.
Newer and more efficient ways of optimizing existing storage facilities are being explored as budgets are tight and capital outlay has been squeezed, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.

The latest versions of DataCore's SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0 storage virtualization software were under preview at the recent VMWorld Europe 2009.
The products are due to be shipped later this month with 64 bit software architecture and various new features for virtual servers, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.

StarWind Software has appointed Zorian Rotenberg as chief executive officer and announced the opening of its US headquarters.
The storage software provider's move to its new HQ near Boston, Massachusetts, comes shortly after the announcement of its spin-off from Rocket Division Inc and the investment, led by ABRT Venture Fund, meant to accelerate sales and assist in marketing efforts.

Cloud computing - including cloud storage - will transform the industry and become the predominant way in which IT is consumed.
That's the prediction of Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Silicon Valley start-up ParaScale.
He said there has been a rapid heightening of interest recently in all things cloud - applications, computing and storage.

Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG Inc, an independent storage analyst and consulting firm, outlines 10 criteria for selecting the right enterprise business continuity software.

Lenovo has launched a desktop computing solution that can dramatically help businesses reduce IT costs and security risks by turning off hard drives and storing all data in a non-server remote location.
Called Secure Managed Client (SMC), the company claims it is the first solution to do all this while still offering users the flexibility and performance of a traditional desktop PC.

A high-performance, energy-efficient solution based on Dell? PowerEdge? blade servers and a Dell EqualLogic? PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network array provides Optimal Blue with an anticipated 50 percent improvement in application response time.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a storage breakthrough in blade computing that will allow small and medium-sized customers and branch offices to consolidate multiple storage devices onto a single blade computing system. Building on the leadership design of IBM's office-ready blade solution, customers can now share information across all blade servers in a single system to help improve utilization and reliability while reducing costs.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an "intelligent dashboard" that will allow clients to view, maintain and adjust the energy consumption, performance, and hardware utilization of their multi-system, virtualized environment -- all in a single view.

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IBM today announced that Northwest Radiology Network has gone live with a new virtualized enterprise of IBM servers and storage to support its growing medical imaging needs, giving its four locations an enterprise-class infrastructure which enables its doctors to recover medical image reports faster for analysis and enables remote 24x7 access to its medical image report system.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and IDUG(R), the International DB2 User Group, today announced the first global competition to identify the next generation of software developers. Known as "The Search for the XML Superstar," the contest will be open to all university students, faculty and professional developers across China, India and Southeast Asia testing knowledge of and skills in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and database technologies.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new supercomputer that NASA scientists will use to simulate and better understand Earth's climate and weather, the planet's relationship with the sun, and the evolution of cosmic phenomena. It will also play an essential role in developing methods to analyze the rapidly increasing amount of data the agency collects from Earth- and space-observing satellites.

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) said today it will offer remote, $99 ?test drives? of Microsoft?s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM® Computing on Demand facilities.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today officially announced that registration for the fourth annual "Master the Mainframe" competition is underway. The annual competition is designed to familiarize students with concepts for the growing large enterprise computing industry and build mainframe skills, enabling them to become the business and IT leaders of tomorrow.

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