Storage Insider Mario Apicella begins this week’s column with the word ‘Synergetic’ because, as he writes, “that’s what happens when you join blade servers and SANs.” Apicella asserts that new and forthcoming capabilities in SAS (serial-attached SCSI) hold the potential to change the way companies connect to their storage. In his blog, The Storage Network, Apicella lists five things companies should do to protect against catastrophic data loss. Also in the storage space, EMC bought Rainfinity for its virtualization technology, and the IDG News Service reports unusually high hard-disk drive shipments in the second quarter of this year. Technology Industry