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Startup Launches Array Tuned for Unstructured, Structured Data

Startup Starboard Storage Systems today came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between structured and unstructured data in order to tailor I/O performance. It's also designed for use in virtualized server environments. Full Story »
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Google "Drive" Could Step on Cloud Partners' Toes

Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing "people familiar with the matter" says the new "Drive" service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?

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Google to Launch Cloud Storage 'Drive' Soon - Reports

Google is rumoured to be on the verge of launching a new cloud-based storage product, which has been described as the search giant's answer to Dropbox.

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Researchers Claim 100-Fold Increase in Data Storage Speed

European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

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Why One Insurance Company Ditched Its Own Hardware- for a Cloud -Based SAN

Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

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Maingear's Six-Core Laptop has 1.8TB of SSD Storage

Maingear's Titan 17 packs Intel's Core i7-3960X desktop processor

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EMC to Flesh Out VFCache with VMware Integration, Other Additions

The server-based flash cache will come in bigger cards, SSDs and less expensive media later this year, the company says

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Online Backup Services Keep Your Data Safe

It's a fact of modern life that archiving data is essential to prevent a data disaster. Still, something like one-third of computers are never backed up, according to 2,257 respondents in a recent Backblaze poll carried out by Harris Interactive. The survey came to the dismal conclusion that a scant 7% of users practice safe computing by archiving their systems on a daily (or nightly) basis.

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EMC Ramps Up Flash Game with VFCache, 'Thunder' Appliance

VFCache, code-named Lightning, will provide flash storage as cache on PCIe cards inside servers

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Riverbed's Granite Speeds Up WAN Storage to Drive Consolidation

The file transfer acceleration technology could help enterprises cut local storage out of remote sites

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Megaupload User Content Safe for Two More Weeks

Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to potentially millions of users of Megaupload's online storage service following the company's dramatic shuttering by U.S. law enforcement authorities earlier this month.

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2012: the Year Storage Becomes a Celebrity

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful -- and accessible.

CEO Letter

Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friendenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.

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Final Phase of Mass. Data Protection Law Kicks in March 1

All companies storing personal data on Massachusetts residents have just over a month to ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers and other third parties comply with a provision of a state data breach law that went into effect in March 2010.

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HDD Crunch May Have Far-reaching Effects

The global supply of hard disk drives may be slow to rebound, with a ripple effect that's threatening small businesses and PC makers. The shortage may also drive demand for SSDs.

 
Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.
As the role of IT increases within organizations, the need to move data when and where it is needed is critical to support emerging business requirements. This has become increasingly difficult due to the huge growth of data volumes. This white paper sponsored by HP + Intel evaluates a solution that aims to enable the movement of data without physical limitations. Read now and see how this could enable agility and efficiency.
HP X9000 IBRIX Storage Systems powered by Intel (circle R) Xeon (circle R) processors allow users to create a virtual file storage environment where they can match storage price/performance with application requirements, yet manage a single, highly scalable system. All three appliance models (X9300 Gateway, X9320, and X9720), or multiple instances of them, can coexist within a single namespace. This gives users the ability to manage various types of storage with different performance profiles as storage pools in a single file system that scales to 16PB and to 1,024 nodes, providing shared storage resources that can grow, contract, and be optimized with uninterrupted data access.

The key to meeting this goal is the X9000 IBRIX scale-out file system software. In combination with these tuned hardware nodes, this software allows organizations to scale independently across multiple dimensions (capacity, I/O performance, throughput) while managing the entire content pool as a single entity. The advantages to this approach include: reduced management staff overhead, highly tunable and scalable capacity and throughput levels, rapid system expansion and upgrade, continuous and real-time view of the past with IBRIX Snap, and reliable and usable data retention.
Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualization to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group.
This paper covers power utilization, intelligent power management and industry best practices for energy efficiency. Extreme Networks® takes a lifecycle approach to power efficiency, management and recycling, offering savings to our customers and promoting a greener world.
With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security.  The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough.  Read this paper to find how you can efficiently and accurately manage your risk by rapidly inventorying and classifying your data and then developing remediation workflows that support business needs. 
Archiving and Backup are the foundation of the next generation of information governance. However, commodity data protection tools and basic archives are only good for storing data. In the changing IT landscape, understanding what you are keeping, when to delete, and delivering insight to the business from your data is the future of these systems. Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.
Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
Real-time, global data updates have become a critical business requirement for financial-services firms. Overnight or hourly batch jobs can cause erroneous results and missed opportunities. New regulatory requirements dictate real-time reporting of liquidity; traders want access to real-time market and risk positions; and the time windows for relevancy of cross-selling and marketing opportunities are getting shorter. To deal with these issues and new requirements, firms need to be able to react quickly to changes in data. Quick reactions require near-instant access to data, risk analysis and deeper computational analysis for effective decision making. View this webcast to learn how to achieve real-time awareness by managing ever-increasing data volumes and transaction rates.
This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. The session will start with the introduction of the key concepts and technologies of virtualization, introduce the vSphere Hypervisor, and build up to an overview of VMware vSphere® 5, the world's most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also discuss new solutions such as the vSphere Storage Appliance and VMware GO that are making it easier than ever before to get started with virtualization.
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