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• Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks

  Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the amount of storage capacity enterprises need, for an undisclosed sum. »

• Microsoft offers free, basic NAC for Windows-only shops

  Vendor: MicrosoftProduct: Network Access Protection (NAP), including the NAP client and Network Policy Server (NPS)Pricing (1,000 users): NAP client is included with all versions of Windows (XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7); NPS is included with Windows 2008 serverStrengths: Free to Windows shops, built into products that most enterprises already haveWeaknesses: Windows-only, features are relatively primitive »

• VMware buys SpringSource in cloud move

  A move intended to capitalize on the budding cloud application deployment trend will unite virtualization vendor VMware with Java framework developer SpringSource. »

• Google to promote Web speed on new developer site

  Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster. »

• Cisco says it’s not eating its SAN young

  Cisco says the dropoff in its FibreChannel SAN revenue and market share in Q1 is attributable to three factors: an early stage migration to 8Gbps; a lower cost migration than rival Brocade; and exposure to financial buyers, which is hard hit by the recession. »

• Intel releases power management tool

  Intel on Thursday announced Data Center Manager software tool kit that can reduce the power drawn by servers in data centers by tapping into hardware resources. »