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More reasons why Dropbox has won so many geeky hearts

Posted December 23, 2011 - 11:17 am

Here are a few intangibles that have made Dropbox such a big success among the early adopting, tech-loving crowd.
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Floppy disk drives create Star Wars Imperial March

Posted September 30, 2011 - 2:51 pm

If you have a bunch of floppy disk drives lying around, do what this guy did - create the Star Wars Imperial March theme from it. Sure, it looks easy. Or you could just enjoy this video.
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Data center lock-down is top concern.

Posted September 15, 2011 - 9:14 am

Data center security an afterthought? Survey says: No!
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Kindle Maker Amazon opens GovCloud for fed data only

Posted August 22, 2011 - 10:23 am

Officially, it's the AWS GovCloud (US), a new service from Amazon Web Services organized just for the federal government. The feds are hot for cloud services, but they also demand a long list of acronym-filled certifications like FISMA, SAS-70, ISO 27001 and more, including "an environment that enables agencies to comply with HIPAA regulations" according to their new release.
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Cloud storage firm Box.net raising $35 million in equity financing

Posted August 16, 2011 - 4:00 pm

Box.net, a provider of cloud-based storage and file-sharing for businesses, has raised $18.7 million in financing from seven unidentified investors.
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Symantec unveils SaaS storage products

Posted May 3, 2011 - 11:14 pm

At its users conference this week, Symantec released a slew of upgrades to its midrange backup, enterprise archive and data management products and said it will begin offering a SaaS model.
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20nm flash chip means more mobile-device features, smaller SSDs

Posted April 15, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Intel and Micron announced they have almost halved the size of their NAND flash circuitry, which will open up space in end products for things such as larger batteries or new chips with additional features.
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VMware's incestuous acquisition of Mozy from EMC doesn't overcome 'Huh?' factor

Posted April 6, 2011 - 2:53 pm

VMware wants Mozy's data-center skills, which is what VMware is supposed to do best. So where's the benefit?
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Amazon disguises powerful online storage as cloud music service

Posted March 29, 2011 - 3:11 pm

Amazon pitches Cloud Drive to consumers as online music storage to stream MP3s, but it can do a lot more than than, at 60 percent the cost of S3.
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Dell reveals its storage roadmap, acquisition integration plans

Posted March 17, 2011 - 3:38 pm

Dell met with Computerworld to explain how it plans to integrate its recent acquisitions of Exanet and Ocarina with its Compellent and EqualLogic products.
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Wave of Big Data could swamp corporate IT

Posted March 10, 2011 - 1:59 pm

Big Data requires more than just lots of storage. Data sets that big break every app they run through, bog down nets and servers and raise IT's Excedrin bills.
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Will the cloud curb interest in 64GB iPad 2?

Posted March 4, 2011 - 5:10 pm

With consumers increasingly turning to cloud service providers for data storage needs, analysts say buyers might opt for 16GB or 32GB models instead of the top-end 64GB iPad 2.
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SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find

Posted March 1, 2011 - 1:39 pm

A technology built into many new solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could inadvertently be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, researchers have discovered.
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Microsoft builds speedy flash bridge between RAM and hard disk

Posted February 17, 2011 - 10:02 am

Microsoft research project makes flash storage work more efficiently in conjunction with RAM and hard disk for speedier reads and writes.
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Mozy's move could bring storm to unlimited cloud storage

Posted February 1, 2011 - 9:52 am

Hit with an onslaught of users wielding high-definition electronics, Mozy said on Monday that it's changing pricing for online storage and limiting the capacity people can purchase. One analyst said other providers are bound to follow suit.
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Cloud leads 5 storage trends for 2011

Posted January 27, 2011 - 2:56 pm

As 2010 progressed, a shift in data-storing methods began to take shape. With 15 petabytes of new data being created every day, and the volume of data continuing to grow, the ability to simply store data in a secure and easily-accessible manner presents a challenge for IT departments and vendors.
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Hitachi aims 3TB drives at business market

Posted January 25, 2011 - 2:07 pm

Hitachi is not the first storage vendor to bring a 3TB drive to market. However, it is the first to introduce an internal 3TB drive reliable enough for hardcore business use.
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Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration

Posted January 20, 2011 - 5:30 pm

New version of the company's offering begins rollout today, allows IT management as well as collaboration with outsiders
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Self-encrypted drives set to become standard fare

Posted January 6, 2011 - 11:36 am

We've seen this coming over time: Based on the Trusted Computing Group's standard, hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), are offering self-encryption built-in. The key difference with these next-generation encrypted drives is that these units have the encryption integrated into a single chip on drive in the drive.
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Are tablets really a disruptive technology?

Posted January 5, 2011 - 1:28 pm

Just like last time around the big story at CES this year is tablets, but there's more than one reason to think this might really be the tablet's big year.
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Universal storage module promises to transform portable data

Posted January 4, 2011 - 5:04 pm

Is a bonafide universal storage cartridge finally at hand? It is if the Serial ATA International Organization and its partnership with 200 some-odd consumer electronics and computer companies can successfully implement the Universal Storage Module spec announced Tuesday.
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Intel releases miniature 80GB SSD

Posted January 3, 2011 - 1:59 pm

Intel recently announced a mini solid-state drive that is one-eighth the size of its current 2.5-in SSD, but that can hold as much as 80GB of data and achieve up to 200MB/sec. throughput.
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Samsung releases MLC-based SSDs for data centers

Posted December 21, 2010 - 6:00 pm

Samsung is now shipping SSDs aimed at enterprise-class storage systems. The new drives use consumer-type flash memory that helps lower their overall cost.
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Seagate debuts fast green drive

Posted December 14, 2010 - 1:54 pm

Seagate has introduced a new high-speed, eco-friendly hard drive for low-power personal computers. The 3.5-inch desktop drive spins at 5900 RPM and includes the company's SmartAlign technology.
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Seagate releases first 1TB 2.5-in enterprise hard drive

Posted December 13, 2010 - 2:19 pm

Seagate today announced the second generation of its Constellation drive, the industry's first 2.5-in enterprise-class drive with 1TB of capacity.
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