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Article | 8/06/2011 Riverbed releases WAN cloud storage gateway appliances

Riverbed Technology today released three new gateway appliances that use WAN acceleration algorithms in order to reduce the bandwidth required to send...

Article | 8/06/2011 Dell offers gateway storage appliance

Dell today announced a new appliance that allows its block-based storage area network (SAN) to store file-based data under one unified management inte...

Article | 4/06/2011 External disk storage shipments increase 46% in Q1

Sales of external disk storage systems continue to boom with a fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue gains, according to market research f...

Article | 1/06/2011 NetApp to resell CommVault's tape backup, snapshot, replication tech

Storage vendor NetApp said today it can now support all types of backup through a single interface as a result of a reseller agreement with CommVault ...

Article | 27/05/2011 Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America jointly launch PayPal rival

Three top U.S. banks are collaborating on a service that will allow the transfer of funds by simply logging in to a personal online bank account and e...

Article | 26/05/2011 EMC joins forces with Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies

EMC today formally announced a reseller partnership with MapR Technologies, a start-up that plans to sell a proprietary MapReduce product based on Apa...

Article | 23/05/2011 Enterprise SSD testing spec released

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the release of a specification that can be used to test the performance of solid-st...

Article | 23/05/2011 Big firms shunning public cloud storage: Survey

Only 10 per cent of large corporations are considering the public cloud as a place to store even their lowest tier of data for archive purposes, accor...

Article | 25/05/2011 University's new SSDs boost video production speeds by 16X

When Brigham Young University-Hawaii's digital media lab needed to turbo-charge its high-def video processing system, it had two choices: Add a storag...

Article | 25/05/2011 Cloud storage no threat to SMB NAS systems, survey shows

Cloud storage services don't represent the death knell for small and medium-sized business (SMB) network-attached storage (NAS), which is expected to ...

Article | 20/05/2011 TMS releases PCIe SSD with 900GB capacity, 2GB/sec throughput

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) this week introduced its fastest flash memory card to date, the RamSan-70, a PCIe card that is half the size and three time...

Article | 19/05/2011 High def in entertainment will mean a 7X data storage increase

As image resolution increases and 3D video becomes a more common format, digital data storage requirements for the entertainment industry are predicte...

Article | 17/05/2011 SanDisk to buy SSD maker Pliant for $327M

Flash memory vendor SanDisk today agreed to acquire Pliant Technology, a maker of enterprise-class solid state drives, for about $327 million in cash.

Article | 17/05/2011 Seagate releases battery-powered drive for iOS, other mobile platforms

Seagate today announced a battery-powered wireless external drive for mobile devices, including those powered by Apple's iOS, such as the iPad.

Article | 14/05/2011 Samsung now producing DDR 2.0 NAND flash, touts 3X performance gain

Samsung Electronics announced that it is now producing high-performance DDR 2.0 multi-level-cell (MLC) memory chips based on its smallest 20-nanometer...