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Storage Predictions for 2012: Infiltration of ‘Small Data’ and a New Kind of Cloud

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:05:00 +0100

Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year. These predictions are based on the company’s interactions with thousands of customers, analysts and industry luminaries.

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Backup in the cloud: Large enterprises wary, others climbing on board

Alan Earls(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:00:00 +0100

More businesses now look to cloud backup services to store and protect their critical data â?? but issues of reliability and recovery time remain.

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Hitschi GST flash stash speed dash

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:17:46 +0100

SSD flash price slash

What a turn up for the books: Hitachi GST has just introduced a multi-level cell SSD that's faster – not slower – than its single level cell product. It's also cheaper, but that's expected.…

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Apple release Lion recovery image utility

http://www.techworld.com/storage (Tech World) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:01:00 +0100

Recovery Disk Assistant creates recovery volume in external drive

On Monday, Apple released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a tool that lets you create a Lion Recovery volume on an external hard drive.

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IBM and City of Portland Collaborate to Build a Smarter City

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:20:14 +0100

To better understand the dynamic behaviour of cities, the City of Portland and IBM have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn identify opportunities to become a 'smarter city'. The model was built to support the development of metrics for the Portland Plan, the City's roadmap for the next 25 years.


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Nexsan spins its own NAS array, the E5000 platform

Sonia R. Lelii, Senior News Writer(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Nexsan Corp. comes up with its own NAS array, the E5000, with support for tiering software and solid-state caching to boost performance.

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IBM to Help Cities Predict Long-Term Effect of Municipal Policies

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:40:37 +0100

IBM today introduced new analytics software and services to help cities predict the result of policy decisions and their positive and negative spill over consequences up to a quarter century in the future.


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IBM and City of Portland Collaborate to Build a Smarter City

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:23:54 +0100

To better understand the dynamic behavior of cities, the City of Portland and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn identify opportunities to become a smarter city. The model was built to support the development of metrics for the Portland Plan, the City's roadmap for the next 25 years.


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EMC trundles out deduping mainframe VTL

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:51:00 +0100

Bus-Tech allied to Data Domain

EMC is bringing out a mainframe virtual tape library to cover both primary and backup data needs.…

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GE brings holographic storage back from the dead

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:01:45 +0100

Format might erupt in the sector

The dormant holographic storage volcano has rumbled, reminding us that it's not extinct and may yet erupt.…

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Fujitsu CTO: Flash is just a stopgap

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:00:02 +0100

Necessary, but not the final destination

Flash is a necessary waystation as we travel to a single in-memory storage architecture. That's the view from the Fujitsu chief technology officer's office.…

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EMC chases mainframe tape market with Disk Library upgrade

Sonia R. Lelii, Senior News Writer(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

EMC, looking to convert mainframe tape users to disk, ugrades its Disk Library for mainframes (DLm) platform.

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Data backup tools evolve with cloud, vStorage APIs and source dedupe

Rachel Dines(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

The latest developments in data backup tools space include cloud backup, growing support for vStorage APIs and source dedupe.

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Unshackling disaster recovery with WAN optimization products

Jeff Boles(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Learn about WAN optimization products specifically aimed at improving DR, and what you need to have in place before you deploy WAN optimization.

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Fusion-io flash results explode

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:00:05 +0100

Buys IO Turbine on the back of 556% revenue surge

Fusion-io's first quarterly results since its IPO show revenues exploding, and it is buying IO Turbine for virtual server caching software on the back of that.…

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STEC stamps its mark on PCIe flash

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:05:58 +0100

Meet Kronos and Kronos Turbo

STEC has introduced Kronos and Kronos Turbo, their dynamic PCIe server flash duo. Actually STEC is launching triplets as there is a Kronos Bi-Turbo – two Turbos ganged together – and there is also flash caching software.…

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STEC, OCZ roll out PCI Express SSD cards; more data storage news

Hillary Oâ??Rourke, Contributor(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

STEC adds PCIe solid-state ASIC plus SSD caching software while OCZ upgrades its PCIe device; HDS claims its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) has 1,400 customers; more storage news.

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Manufacturers Gain Better Data Intelligence with Integrated ERP Platform from IBM and Infor

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:21:13 +0100

IBM and Infor today announced an integrated hardware and software solution designed to improve the profitability and responsiveness of manufacturers. Based on IBM's market-leading POWER7® family of systems and the IBM i operating system, the optimized platform with Infor's ERP LX, ERP XA and ERP System21 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is an easy to install system that streamlines manufacturing processes through automated planning, scheduling and fulfillment. It also yields new data intelligence that quickens decision making and reduces administration costs.


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Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd with Cloudera Partnership

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:11:42 +0100

Dell will add new-generation PowerEdge C servers and networking components, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software in the new implementation. - Dell on Aug. 4 joined the growing Apache Hadoop commercial implementators' club by announcing a new partnership with Cloudera -- by far the oldest and most production-utilized distribution of the celebrated open source data analytics package. Cloudera's was the first commercial implementation of ...

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Huge Digital Media Demand, PCIe Adoption Lead Storage Trends in Mid-2011

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:25:30 +0100

As we do periodically here at eWEEK, we offer a look at important new and continuing trends in data storage. These are based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs. The No. 1 continuing trend is that there is an insatiable demand for more digital storage in all markets and that's not going to change anytime soon. On the new product front, we're seeing key development in PCIe cards, image cloning, storage pooling, disaster recovery, thin-provisioning, capacity management and a slew of other areas coming into the market from established companies and startups alike. Storage media, including spinning disk hard drives, solid-state NAND flash, digital tape and optical disks, continue to become more capacious& and run cooler& as engineers and manufacturers continue to make improvements. Markedly better networking and processing speeds are also instrumental in these product upgrades. What follows in this slide show is an expanded version of an eWEEK story that posted Aug. 2. - ...

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SMART unveils smarter, faster, fatter SSDs

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:11:39 +0100

'How much for the 1.6TB baby? We're not saying'

Move over Violin, OCZ, Seagate, Intel, et al. SMART Modular Technologies is crowing that it's now number one in the notebook-format flash drive space, having just introduced its new Optimus solid state drive, which it calls "the world's fastest multi-level cell and highest capacity SAS SSD."…

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Xiotech becomes banking apps bottleneck-buster

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:29:24 +0100

Palms some cash, changes stance

All change, all change. Xiotech has gained new funding, a new marketing officer, changed its marketing, has benchmarks coming and is setting up a European infrastructure.…

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Citrix refocuses on cloud, turns to Microsoft with XenServer 6.0

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer(editor@searchservervirtualization.com ( ) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Now in beta, XenServer 6.0 sports improvements including a more integrated distributed virtual switch, but Citrix is handing enterprise virtualization management reins over to Microsoft.

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OCZ jumps harder on enterprise PCIe bandwagon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:41:40 +0100

Z-Drive R4 beefs VeloDrive, RevoDrive

OCZ has announced its third Z-drive refresh in two years, with the Z-Drive R4 going more than four times faster than the first version product.…

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Toshiba releases first 1TB hard drive for laptop market

http://www.techworld.com/storage (Tech World) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:38:00 +0100

Storage vendor ships 2.5 inch MQ01ABD disk

Toshiba enters the nascent one terabyte laptop hard drive market with the company's first 2.5-inch 1TB hard disk, the MQ01ABD. The drive has an industry-standard 9.5mm height and uses two 500GB platters.

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Qwest Enhances vRanger with VMware Backup, Recovery

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:26:48 +0100

Key enhancements to vRanger 5.2 include full VMware ESX and ESXi support and active block mapping technology. - IT management software specialist Quest Software, Inc. announced the availability of vRanger 5.2, the latest addition to the vRanger family of virtual data protection solutions. vRanger 5.2 is designed to simplify and accelerate VMware backup, replication and recovery while reducing storage requirem...

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Samsung dives into spin-transfer torque

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:26:46 +0100

Next generation tech: Korean company buys DARPA-funded Grandis

Samsung is going to walk the spin-transfer torque by buying Grandis, and will use its capabilities to develop next-generation memory.…

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IBM Helps to Support Kenya's Electronic Government Development Goals

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:30:32 +0100

An international team of 12 IBM employees from IBM's Corporate Services Corps programme has completed a month-long term during which they helped support the development of an electronic master plan for the country. The team focused on the challenges and requirements to help Kenya realise its vision of transforming into a middle income nation providing an improved quality of life for all citizens by the year 2030.


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Avere FXT clustered NAS appliances render aid to visual effects firm

Sonia R. Lelii, Senior News Writer(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Visual effects firm Whiskytree turned to Avere FXT clustered NAS appliances to solve scaling limitations of its Apple Xsan storage system.

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VMware blinks on vSphere 5 licensing

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer(editor@searchservervirtualization.com ( ) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

VMware has increased the vRAM licensing entitlements in its vSphere 5 licensing model. But some users hope the changes donâ??t end there.

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Five Key Storage Trends Causing Talk in Mid-2011

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:05:23 +0100

ANALYSIS: New products and services involving PCIe cards, image cloning, storage pooling, automation, capacity management and a slew of others are coming into the market from established companies and newbies alike. - As we do periodically here at eWEEK, we offer another snapshot (sorry, couldn't resist that analogy) of important new and continuing trends in data storage. These are based upon regular conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs in addition to our regular c...

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OCZ releases Z series R4 SSD with up to 2.8GB/s throughput

http://www.techworld.com/storage (Tech World) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:15:00 +0100

Fifth generation PCIe drive doubles performance, says OCZ

OCZ today released the fifth generation of its PCI-Express SSD, which it said can perform at a 2.8GB/sec read rate.

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OCZ's New PCIe Flash Card Can Serve as Tier 1 Storage Layer

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:45:31 +0100

The Z-Drive cards for the first time enable data centers to deploy PCIe as a Tier 1 storage layer. - PCIe cards, specialized NAND flash-based storage devices designed to add speed and versatility in enterprise storage deployments, are swiftly gaining traction among IT decision-makers for several reasons. And yes, blazing performance would be one of them. OCZ Technology Group (Nasdaq: OCZ) on A...

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Samsung Acquires New-Gen Memory Maker Grandis

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:36:37 +0100

Grandis' proprietary Spin-Transfer Torque RAM has all the characteristics of what the company calls "an ideal universal memory" for IT devices. - Samsung has fortified its research and development arm in the increasing competitive battle for marketshare in the solid-state memory sector. Samsung Electronics Co. on Aug. 2 announced the acquisition of Grandis, Inc., a 9-year-old firm that makes spin transfer torque random-access memory (STT...

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Toshiba launches thinner spinner

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:23:50 +0100

1TB standard notebook format drive

Seagate's failure to capitalise on its start-of-year areal density advantages is being laid bare: Toshiba has followed Samsung and Western Digital by adding a 1TB, standard format notebook drive to its roster, leaving Seagate out in the cold.…

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eBay backs Flash new boy for storage

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:30:10 +0100

Nimbus = smaller, cheaper, cooler

Out of nowhere, Nimbus, an all-flash array supplier, has beaten incumbents NetApp and 3PAR at eBay, with 12 arrays and 100TB of flash installed to accelerate eBay's server virtualisation work.…

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eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD system

Dave Raffo, Senior News Director(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

eBay says it has 100 TB of Nimbus S-class all-flash solid-state storage arrays connected to its VMware servers, and the auction site will likely expand its flash footprint.

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IBM Develops Full-text Digitization System for National Diet Library of Japan

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:12:37 +0100

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is helping the National Diet Library of Japan -- the country's only national library -- digitize its literary artifacts on a massive scale to make them widely available and searchable online by all information seekers.


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IBM Honors the 25th Anniversary of High-Temperature Superconductivity

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:56:41 +0100

Twenty-five years ago IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists, J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller altered the landscape of physics when they observed superconductivity in an oxide material at a temperature 50 percent higher(1), (-238 deg C, -397 deg F) than what was previously known. This discovery opened an entirely new chapter in the field of physics and earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987.


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Disaster recovery in the cloud explained

SearchStorage.com (editor@searchstorage.com) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Discover whether or not disaster recovery in the cloud is a good choice for your organization, and the pros and cons of different cloud DR approaches.

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Finding the value in server application virtualization

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer(editor@searchservervirtualization.com ( ) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0100

Some IT pros can see the potential in abstracting applications from server operating systems. For now, the technology is just getting off the ground.

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Isilon's iSCSI here to stay, insiders insist...quietly

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:00:25 +0100

Rumours of its death exaggerated wrong

Rumours of EMC Isilon abandoning iSCSI support in its scale-out filers have been denied by an EMC source…

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The Future of Storage + Analytics

http://www.eweek.com (Eweek) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:54:07 +0100

Advances in storage capacity and speed are coming, and when coupled with analytics software, they can yield valuable insight across vast amounts of information. This video will discuss advances in storage, from SSD to phase-change memory (PCM), and discuss applications that will benefit from large-scale, in-memory, predictive analysis, including healthcare and disease patterns, municipal planning, and searchable video archives.
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Lumbering STEC struggles to turn corner

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:02:02 +0100

Difficult for a supertanker to win in a Flash dogfight

STEC shares sank like a stone after it predicted a depressed outlook in its quarterly report. It never really recovered from last year's EMC over-purchase fiasco, and has suffered from over-priced product and missing PCIe flash.…

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Hitachi GST plugs its areal hole with shingles

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ (The Register) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:00:02 +0100

Listens to Google, Facebook as much as HP or Dell

Hitachi GST, in the process of being acquired by Western Digital, says Shingle Magnetic Recording is a necessary gap-filler before advanced disk recording technologies come on stream. It is currently talking to Facebook and Google about this.…

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IBM and Security First Corp. to Develop Integrated Security Technology

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:57:19 +0100

IBM and Security First Corp., a data high availability and security company, today announced a joint development agreement aimed at delivering increased performance, security, and high data availability to storage and cloud-based computing customers.


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U.S. ISP Data Retention Bill Goes to House for Debate

http://www.eweek.com (E Week) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:19:06 +0100

A House committee approved a bill that would require internet service providers to retain details of customer online activity for 12 months for law enforcement usage. - The House Judiciary Committee approved a controversial bill that would require Internet service providers to retain customer data for 12 months. The data retention clause would require ISPs to keep subscriber information including IP addresses for 12 months for use to investigate cases of child e...

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LSI brings out 12 Gbps SAS RAID-on-Chip controller, other storage news

Hillary Oâ??Rourke, Contributor(editor@searchstorage.com ( ) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:00:00 +0100

LSI said it has first 12 Gbps SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) controllers, Dot Hill gets snapshot and encryption patents; Utah Transit Authority selects Nexsan Assureon for archiving.

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Oracleâ??s Java virtualization support policy reignites controversy

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:00:00 +0100

With Oracleâ??s new Java 7 virtualization support policy, users fear they wonâ??t be able to run the popular programming language -- or its apps -- on VMware or Hyper-V.

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University of Louisville Collaborates With IBM to Speed Scientific Breakthroughs

http://www.ibm.com/press (IBM Storage) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:08:46 +0100

The University of Louisville (UofL) announced today it has worked with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to double its high performance computing power as part of a $1.8 million investment in their supercomputing system. The new capacity will enable the University to proceed with advanced research projects such as discovering new approaches for treating pediatric cancer and developing better materials for solar power both of which are at critical development stages.


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