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HP and Dell continue to bid for 3PAR in what is becoming a battle of wills and perhaps pride rather than logic, but the question is why?The economy and the importance of IT have got caught in a business dilemma. Power is essential to run data centres, however the cost of power is outpacing the hardware, but the mantra of ‘do more, with less’ still prevails.Cisco promises less power usage with new power management features in its Catalyst 3750-X stackable access switch. The new Cisco switch pools power among switches in a stack and also supports PoE+.According to latest research; the service provider router market will grow by more than 60% over the next five years. Cisco’s fourth quarter results have broken the $40 billion revenue barrier for the first time, with a 27% revenue growth for the final quarter of its financial year.Consumer gadgets are getting all the attention these days; however there are some new products and technologies that will solve problems in the datacentre.Force10 Networks has announced that its newest S-series Top-of-Rack (ToR) access switch is now available from Hardware.com.The ongoing march and dominance of YouTube and recent high profile launch of Google TV has lead to a lot of general speculation about the impact of online video on internet traffic in the coming years. With the recent release of its Visual Networking Index forecast, Cisco has attempted to put a figure on that.The announcement in July of Eaton’s takeover of EMC Engineers, a market leader in the supply of energy engineering services is an interesting industry development and consistent with Eaton’s strategy of becoming a complete turnkey provider of power management solutions.Cisco has recently announced a platform that will manage all the systems and facilities in a business for their energy consumption.