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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
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
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
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
Druva Adds Mobile Capabilities To Backup Service
Druva's on-premises enterprise configuration can now control 100,000 devices from a single console
SMBs Lack Adequate Backup Plans, Warns Mozy
A Mozy survey has found that significant number of SMBs don't implement safe backup strategies, despite the risks
Zetta Adds SMB Cloud Data Protection To Backup Service
Zetta has upgraded its DataProtect cloud service to give SMBs a backup solution with no appliance
DataDirect Networks Targets Big Data With New Appliances
DataDirect Networks has launched two physically smaller storage appliances that target the 'big data' sector
Brocade: Expect A Chassis Fabric Switch
Brocade is likely to produce a chassis-based fabric switch, Marcus Jewell tells TechWeekEurope
Carpathia Host Wants To Delete Megaupload Data
Storage company Carpathia Hosting claims that storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs it $9000 a day
Quantum Targets Cloud Backup With DXi V1000 Launch
Quantum is looking to help businesses deal with their cloud backup issues with its new DXi appliance
EMC Combines Big Data, Social Nets And App Development With Pivotal Labs Buy
Pivotal Tracker will combine with EMC's Chorus to harmonise applications for Big Data developers
Report: HP To Merge PC And Printer Groups
HP looks set for some serious restructuring as Whitman looks to shake things up
Western Digital Reveals 2TB Portable Hard Drive
Western Digital has updated its My Passport portable storage drive portfolio to include a 2TB device
Seagate Squeezes 1TB Into A Square Inch
Seagate says it'll make 6TB 3.5-inch drives in the near future after making a major breakthrough
Veeam And Scale Partner For Virtual Disaster Recovery
Veeam Software and Scale Computing have partnered up for disaster recovery in virtual environments
Channel Must Adapt To Cloud, Says New ChannelBiz Site
Big changes are coming in the channel, says ChannelBiz editor Mke Magee
Nexsan And Veeam Team Up For Cloud Data Push
Nexsan and Veeam have partnered up to push scalable data protection, which includes cloud storage and backup
Storage Software Market Breaks Records
The worldwide storage software market has broken revenue records, hitting nearly £2.5bn, IDC has found
Big Data Means Big Growth For Vendors, Claims IDC
An IDC study estimates value of the 2015 market for big data technology and services will be five times that of 2010
Google Cloud Storage And Zmanda Connect For Backup Services
Zmanda has connected its flagship Amanda Enterprise suite to Google's cloud storage capacity to offer a backup service