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Google's GDrive Reportedly To Launch As Dropbox-rival 'Drive'

Posted February 9, 2012 - 9:38 am

Google's long-rumored GDrive that would let you upload and store files to its servers and be able to access them from anywhere you have an Internet connection may finally be close to launching in the coming weeks as a more cheaply priced Dropbox rival.
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Hands on with Amazon Storage Gateway

Posted February 8, 2012 - 2:57 pm

Amazon's new Storage Gateway offers a twist on cloud-based backups, but beware of the rough edges
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Second life: Revive your old workstation with SSDs

Posted February 8, 2012 - 2:33 pm

With lower costs and higher capabilities, workstation-grade SSDs can significantly extend the useful life of old hardware
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Terabytes per second writing on hard drives with heat

Posted February 8, 2012 - 12:20 pm

Using a laser to heat magnetic bits on a hard drive may boost write speed hundreds of times.
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Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

Posted February 8, 2012 - 11:29 am

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

Posted February 8, 2012 - 9:29 am

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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Toshiba's 1TB USB 3.0 drive; winter gloves for touch-screening

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:24 pm

The latest external hard drive from Toshiba features 1TB of storage capacity, a USB 3.0 connection (with USB 2.0 support), a free 30-day trial of cloud backup software, file/folder data encryption (256-bit, via password protection), an internal shock sensor to protect it from drops, and a drive space alert system that tells you if the drive is full.
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IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:06 pm

Enhancements to IBM's XIV Storage System include an SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times.
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MegaUpload takedown didn't slow pirate downloads, just moved them offshore

Posted February 7, 2012 - 4:16 pm

Between 30 percent and 40 percent of all file-sharing traffic went through MegaUploads until it was shut down. Since then the number of files being downloaded has remained steady, but from different sites, many of which use data centers in the EU or Asia rather than the U.S.
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Maingear's six-core laptop has 1.8TB of SSD storage

Posted February 7, 2012 - 2:52 pm

PC maker Maingear is chasing the laptop performance crown with its latest Titan 17 laptop, which can be configured to include Intel's fastest desktop processor and up to 1.8TB of solid-state drive storage.
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Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:24 am

Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday.
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ESG Analyst White Paper - VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance: High Availability for Small IT Operations

Posted February 7, 2012 - 8:40 am

Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualisation to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Learn directly from your peer's experiences and see why VMware's solutions are perfect for the growing and ambitious business.
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Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud

Posted February 7, 2012 - 6:19 am

Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday.
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EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

Posted February 6, 2012 - 7:38 pm

EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.
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Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:47 pm

Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management
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Online backup services keep your data safe

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:26 pm

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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Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:22 pm

Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD, sporting its smallest 25nm NAND flash memory and SandForce's SATA 3.0 controller with 500MB/sec-plus performance.
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EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

Posted February 5, 2012 - 4:32 pm

EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance.
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Get 5GB of extra Dropbox storage, free

Posted February 5, 2012 - 7:24 am

A free account from beloved file-sharing and -storage service Dropbox nets you 2GB of space. Want to boost that to 7GB? You can, and it won't cost you a dime extra.
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EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance

Posted February 5, 2012 - 3:06 am

EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology.
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Retrieve your entire music library from Your Google Music account

Posted February 4, 2012 - 7:26 am

For a while now I've been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn't really a backup, because I couldn't easily retrieve all the songs I'd uploaded. In the event of a system failure, I'd have to download tunes in batches of 100. Bleh.
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EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

Posted February 3, 2012 - 1:00 pm

EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.
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The small world of big data

Posted February 2, 2012 - 1:34 pm

The evolution of big data, Hadoop, and related technologies is interesting, but not just from a purely esoteric standpoint. Understanding how these technologies fit together will give users a better idea of which solution is right for them.
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Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation

Posted February 1, 2012 - 9:09 am

Riverbed Technology plans to make enterprise data centers look like local storage at branch offices with Granite, a new accelerator technology the company is announcing on Wednesday.
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Morning countdown: Flash storage hits the big time

Posted February 1, 2012 - 8:00 am

Plus: Linux isn't enough on its own?
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