Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to get an app running. What you're going to see here that you've never seen before is shrinkwrap net apps that scale that can be deployed by civillians. That's a mouthful, but that's what's coming. Why? Because here is a standardized platform that can be stamped out in the billions of units. Maybe Google can't do it, but the perception is that they can. Who is willing to stand up and say Google hasn't nailed scaling? What PCs did in the 80s, Google is doing now. PCs took the black magic out of owning a computer.

Much is being made about network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs) as options for the high-volume data storage needs of modern enterprises. Yet when you look closely, these are not competing solutions, but rather complementary technologies that are best suited to different tasks.

Managing the surge of file-based data has become increasingly difficult and complex. Virtualizing NAS through Network File Virtualization (NFV) simplifies storage management and enables administrators to easily address management and utilization challenges without affecting data access.

In an agreement forged between Azul Systems and influential Japanese IT distributor, Nissho Electronics, Japan will become the first country to offer network-attached processing capabilities for Java and J2EE platform-based applications. Nissho will utilize Azul's compute appliances, which use network attached processing to unbound compute resources for Java.

Aimed at small-to-medium size businesses and based on a unique patent-pending design and technology, EMC has launched a customer-installable networked storage system capable of storing up to three terabytes of information with integrated functions for simple management and advanced protection.

EMC Corporation extended its NetWin family of NAS products with a low-cost model targeted at the entry-level NAS market.

EMC information storage systems with five terabytes of capacity - the equivalent of five million books, one million digital photos, or 200,000-300,000 MP3 files - have just been donated by EMC to 6 schools local to the Hopkinton, MA-based storage giant.