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Article | 18/11/2009 Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage
Riverbed Technology has a plan to help companies accelerate access to applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environ...
Article | 24/11/2009 Data Robotics ships Drobo iSCSI SAN
Data Robotics today released its first iSCSI SAN storage array that, like its other low-end arrays, manages itself and allows any capacity or brand of...
Article | 24/11/2009 1TB SSD a steal at just over $US3,000
If you had over $3,000 to spare, what would you do with it? Component vendor OCZ Technology hopes that you'll spend it on one of its new, massive 1TB ...
Article | 13/11/2009 Start-up claims its DVDs last 1,000 years
If you really, really need to make sure those precious photos of yours last virtually forever - or at least longer than the average two- to five-year ...
Article | 5/11/2009 The week in storage
Last week in storage garnered several announcements from SteelEye, 3PAR, Brocade and Thales.
Article | 28/10/2009 Intel pulls firmware for SSDs just a day after release
Intel has pulled a firmware upgrade it released on Monday for its X25-M consumer solid-state drives as users complained that the software caused crash...
Article | 28/10/2009 Brocade partners with Thales for network-based encryption appliance
Data storage switch maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Thales e-Security Inc. today announced the integration of the Thales Encryption Mana...
Article | 16/10/2009 Storage pros worry about putting data in the cloud
Cloud storage platforms need to mature before they are enterprise-ready, particularly for customers in highly regulated industries, IT professionals a...
Article | 13/10/2009 Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups
The loss of personal data that Sidekick users in the U.S. have suffered is a shame, but it also shows how important data stored on mobile phones has b...
Article | 8/10/2009 IBM unveils disk archive system, cloud storage tools
IBM this week unveiled a new private cloud storage service for enterprise-class companies at its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit conference ...
Article | 25/09/2009 Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive
After 8 years of success the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first main...
Article | 25/09/2009 Flash reality sinks in at Diskcon
Solid-state storage earned a hot technology's badge of honor -- a backlash -- on Wednesday at the Diskcon conference in Santa Clara, California.
Article | 23/09/2009 Western Digital urges users: back up to ensure data security
The amount of storage needed for increasing amounts of data will rise ten-fold in the next five years, yet only one in three users are actively backin...
Article | 21/09/2009 Netbook flash storage gets a standard connector
A new SATA interface to be introduced Monday at the Intel Developer Forum will provide a standard for solid-state storage vendors to use when building...
Article | 19/09/2009 Study: most storage devices to use USB 3.0 by 2012
Despite the first ever USB 3.0 motherboard being delayed, the authors of a recent report think that our wait for Superspeed USB may be nearing an end.