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CLICK HERE FOR Free WHITE PAPER: http://search390.com/r/0,,14706,00.htm?vanguard ____________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LEAD STORY NAVIGATING THE MAZE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES | Search390.com Analyst Rich Evans discusses the reality of the IT marketplace today versus the marketing visions of IT vendors and offers advice to data center managers who are mulling potential investments in new technology. >> For the complete story, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid10_gci904778,00.html FOR MORE INFORMATION: Featured Topic: Data Center Futures http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci867617,00.html Search390.com's top 10 expert Q&As http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci887575,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= OTHER HEADLINES The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ Q&A: WHY MORE COMPANIES ARE CREATING IN-HOUSE DR CENTERS A growing number of data centers are working toward bringing data recovery back in house. Upshot: many companies feel that outsiders simply can't be trusted to recover complex and interdependent systems fast enough. (Search390.com) http://search390.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid10_gci904807,00.html GARTNER SAYS NEW ISERIES DATABASE SALES DROPPED BY 24% IN 2002 According to Gartner, IBM held the top spot in the DB2/400 sales last year despite a 24% drop in sales. IBM maintained its lead because Oracle, its nearest competitor, saw a 20% drop in its own database revenue. (The Four Hundred) IBM NAILS DOWN DATES, PERFORMANCE FOR STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION IBM on Tuesday announced the date for the debut of its SAN Volume Controller and SAN Integration Server. The company says that the pair of storage virtualization offerings will hit the streets at the end of July and that the products will offer throughput in the area of 280,000 I/Os per second. (SearchStorage.com) http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci904289,00.html SSA AND BAAN TO MERGE The backers of iSeries software maker SSA plan to buy Baan, the software offshoot of Invensys. Financial terms of the deal were not released. (iSeries Network) The headlines above and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Can IBM re-invent mainframe's image? Mainframes: Are they ancient relics of a time past, or state of the art supercomputers? 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