Kelley Blue Book drives toward savings with virtualizarion

Kelley Blue Book drives toward savings with virtualizarion
Auto valuation company Kelley Blue Book undertook a storage refresh this year that, combined with a server virtualization and data deduplication project, yielded a 250% return on investment.

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Table of Contents

• Kelley Blue Book drives toward savings with virtualizarion
• Norton Online Backup gets big upgrade, supports Mac
• State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping
• 22 stories underground: Iron Mountain’s experimental Room 48

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Norton Online Backup gets big upgrade, supports Mac
Symantec released Version 2.0 of its Norton Online Backup product, which now supports Mac OS X and allows users to share files and gives them Web access to any backed-up documents.

State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping
An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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22 stories underground: Iron Mountain’s experimental Room 48
Inside Iron Mountain’s western Pennsylvania underground storage facility, which may best be known for housing things like Bill Gates’ Corbis photo collection, lies Room 48 — a geothermal experiment aimed at creating the most energy-efficient data center possible.

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