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Which? Says Apple And Others Charge Too Much For Tablet Storage
Manufacturers "fleecing" consumers by charging up to £80 for £6 worth of storage, says watchdog
SMBs Unready For Data Loss And Lack Backup
Small businesses lack backup policies and don't think mobile devices contain much sensitive data, survey reveals
EMC Launches The First XtremIO All-Flash Array
Built with technology acquired last year, EMC’s first entry into the market is out to impress
Extreme Looks To Big Data With Summit X770 Switch
Extreme Networks responds to the big data trend with the launch of a new data centre-oriented switch
Microsoft Integrates SkyDrive For Xbox One Personal Cloud
Microsoft's Xbox One will work seamlessly with SkyDrive to extend the reach of the cloud storage service
Avere Extends NAS Onto Amazon’s Cheap Glacier
Freeze your data in Amazon's cheap cold storage - and still get it back when you want it
Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream
The new Apache Hadoop promises a world where Big Data players work together, says Doug Cutting
Quiz Of The Week: Flash Storage
The Flash memory market is growing by the minute. What do you know about this important technology?
Cray Offers Up Tiered Storage Solution
Cray beefs up its enterprise credentials with the arrival of a tiered storage solution for HPC organisations
Western Digital Confirms OS X Mavericks Can Wipe External Hard Drive Data
The issue affects other drive manufacturers, but Apple remains silent
Western Digital Inflates 3.5in HDD Storage To 6TB Using Helium
Helium cuts turbulence, boosts drive capacity to 6TB, and opens the way to liquid cooling
IT Life: The Human Face of Big Data
Senior vice president of EMEA Field Operations at Informatica and MENSA member Charles Race talks about big data, Clive Sinclair and cricket
NetApp And Cisco Enhance FlexPod Storage For Data Centres
The popular FlexPod project has been updated and can now reach out to multiple data centres
SAP Bolsters HANA Database With Five New Apps
SAP reveals new software for its HANA database that includes four “big data” style applications
Rackspace And Hortonworks Launch Managed Hadoop Hosting
New service lowers barriers to entry into Big Data analytics
Hunk Lets Splunk Users Analyse Data In Hadoop
The company unveils its plan for world domination – letting anyone who stores data in Hadoop analyse it with Splunk
Microsoft Brings Hadoop Big Data To Windows Azure
Microsoft makes Hadoop-based HDInsight generally available as part of big data push
SAS Joins Forces With SAP On Big Data
SAS and SAP are to work together on developing in-memory data analysis, allowing administrators to take advantage of real-time big data analytics
IP Expo: Coraid And CommVault Are “Like Fish And Chips”
Peter Godden, vice president for EMEA at Coraid, talks about the partnership with information management company CommVault
Seagate Squeezes 32TB Into 1U With Its First Rackmount Storage Appliance
The company is convinced that small businesses are looking for high storage density
EMC Blames US Government For Slowdown ‘Disappointment’
EMC quarterly results miss expectations, with slowing figures blamed on a US government spending fall
SGI To Bolster Big Data Credentials
SGI is making use of its supercomputer expertise to help companies tackle their big data needs
Data Storage Needs To Become More Complex
IDC warns that data storage requirements are becoming more complex, as demand continues to grow
IP Expo: Fusion-io Introduces New ioControl Features
Chris McCall, senior director of ioControl Marketing, talks about the new software Fusion-io has launched in the UK
IP Expo: Western Digital Offers New Products For SMBs
Stuart Wright from WD talks about the recently launched compact servers
VMworld 2013: Gelsinger Trumpets Network And Storage Virtualisation
With the servers all virtualised, VMware CEO wants to own the rest of the software defined data centre
PernixData Launches Its Flash Hypervisor In The UK
The software can considerably increase storage performance in virtualised environments
Dot Hill Pushes RAID Architecture With SSD Support, Converged Network Interface
Dot Hill's new architecture targets the RAID storage operated by a large number of data centres
MongoDB Gets $150 Million In A New Funding Round
Open source NoSQL database breaks industry records, now valued at $1.2 billion