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Meg Whitman Threatens To “Darken The Skies” With HP Staff
HP CEO emphasises company's strengths and warns of "tech 9/11" in London
Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard
Facebook's Open Rack spec looks to make data centres more efficient, as tech giants jump on the Open Compute train
Apple Blocks Dropbox Apps
The new Dropbox SDK features mechanics that are against the Apple App Store policy
HP Launches 3PAR Storage Performance Guarantee
Promises to double the virtual server performance, by any means necessary
Oracle Targets Large Backups With New ZFS Appliance
Oracle's new ZFS Backup Appliance can back up full workloads at speeds up to 20TB per hour
IBM Helps Leicester Tigers Predict Their Game
Predictive analytics will be used to help the team reduce number and severity of injuries
IBM Snaps Up Vivisimo To Bolster Big Data Analytics
Acquisition will bring 140 new customers to IBM, including Airbus, Procter & Gamble and the US Navy
EMC And NetApp Poised To Fight Over Green Storage Company?
EMC and NetApp are eyeing up the all-Flash storage firm XtremIO
“Dirty Disk” Vulnerability Threatens The Cloud
Rackspace and VPS.NET have resolved the issue, but shared storage in OnApp-based clouds could leak data
Google Drive Shakes Up Cloud Storage Market
Chris Preimesberger asks what took Google so long to launch Google Drive?
Google Finally Reveals Drive Cloud Storage
Google Drive cloud storage will work closely with other Google products
Infosec: One In 10 Second-Hand Hard Drives Keep Personal Data
ICO research confirms the fact that valuable data is still on many hard drives even after they are supposedly wiped
Oracle Adds Features To ZFS NAS Appliance
Oracle has unveiled the Sun-developed ZFS Storage 7420 NAS appliance, and upgraded JD Edwards' Enterprise One application
Businesses Confidence In Data Security At Low Ebb
A new survey has revealed a chronic lack of confidence among businesses about their data protection
Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners
Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts
Google Drive 5GB Dropbox Rival To Land Next Week?
Apple Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android versions on the way for Google's Dropbox rival, say sources
Quantum Adds Portability To LTFS Storage
Quantum's introductory Linear Tape File System appliance features a network-attached storage front end
iSuppli: Desktop PCs Shifting To Smaller 2.5-Inch Disk Drives
iSuppli has found that disk drive manufacturers are shifting to more power-efficient 2.5-inch drives
Portugal Proposes Terabyte Tax To Pay Copyright Holders
Portugal is planning a tax of up to €0.5 per Gigabyte, to pay copyright owners
Western Digital Super Slim HDD Targets Ultrabooks
Western Digital is seeking to provide an alternative to SSDs with its new shock resistent Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive
IBM PureSystems Converge RISC and x86, Network And Storage
IBM's converged data centre entry attempts to package up expertise as well as hardware
Red Hat’s Clustered Storage Polishes Gluster
Red Hat's open source cloud file system supports Hadoop for big data
IBM Updates DB2, InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for Big Data
IBM has updated its DB2 database, as well as releasing InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for big data
Natural Disasters Contribute To HDD Decline In 2011
IDC figures confirm that natural disasters in both Thailand and Japan impacted the HDD industry in 2011
Samsung To Build £4.4 Billion NAND Chip Plant In China
The company will produce silicon to cater for China’s growing domestic market
Apache Promotes Big Data Tool
Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation
Fusion-io CEO: Storage Heading For Commoditisation
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn talks to us about how the storage industry is heading for commoditisation because of flash at the server
IBM £26.6m Exascale Project To Power World’s Largest Radio Telescope
The Square Kilometre Array will process twice the amount of data generated on the Internet every day
Druva Adds Mobile Capabilities To Backup Service
Druva's on-premises enterprise configuration can now control 100,000 devices from a single console