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Iron Mountain Signals Retreat From Cloud Storage
Iron Mountain said it will 'retire' its public storage services by 2013 in the face of tough competition
Woz Watches Over Fusion-io’s UK SQL Coding Battle
Steve Wozniak was the big draw as SQL programmers met in Brighton to vie for Fusion's Golden Plunger Award
Pencil-Thin Portable HDD Shipped By Seagate
The portable 2.5-inch HDD in a slim casing that is a mere 9mm thick but packs in 320GB of storage space
VMware Boosts Cloud Portfolio with Mozy Takeover
VMware has added the Mozy cloud storage offering to its portfolio after transferring the unit from parent EMC
Cloud Storage Standard Seeing Commercial Adoption
The CDMI standard is turning up in more commercial cloud storage implementations, says a survey
EMC Cloud Backup Service Arrives On iPad, iPhone
EMC Mozy has launched versions of its software for Apple iOS devices, with Android versions coming soon
Birmingham Council Throws Data Warehouse At Fraudsters
Birmingham City Council has used data matching technology to catch £6.8m of false tax discounts
Kaminario Tweaks DRAM Storage Appliance
Kaminario's entry-level K2 system can have 500GB of storage,and deliver 150,000 IOPS for £30,000
Edinburgh Scientists Develop Low-Power Memory
The Scots scientists propose a tiny mechanical arm and nanotubes to save power in gadget memory
Box Connects Content Management Systems Across Devices
Box's new connector allows content to be accessed from mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones
BridgeSTOR Ships Optimised Storage Appliance
BridgeSTOR's new storage appliance handles data loads with deduplication, thin provisioning and compression
Spectra Logic Adds Data Integrity To Tape Storage
Spectra Logic tape-storage systems automatically checks media and data throughout the data's storage life
Reding Unveils EU Data Protection Law Update
Non-EU companies such as Google and Facebook could face legal action of they violate EU privacy regulations
Forrester: Virtualisation Use Grows Sharply
The server virtualisation market is maturing, with a spike in virtual servers, says Forrester
“Big Data” Boot Camps Launched By IBM
IBM's skills initiative offers free boot-camp training to help IT workers to tackle emerging Big Data issues
Enterprises Warned To Take Cyber Spying Seriously
An Ovum analyst warns of enterprises' cavalier attitude towards shutting out cyber spies
NetApp Acquires LSI’s Storage Division For £297M
NetApp has joined the rush to buy into the "big data" storage market by netting LSI's Eugenio storage business
Western Digital’s Hitachi Storage Buy Is A Gamble
Western Digital will soon own half of the world's HDD market. But why take a risk on a waning technology, asks Chris Preimesberger
SMBs Backing Up To Cloud, Finds Forrester
New survey results find midmarket companies are increasingly turning to cloud data back-up
Western Digital Acquires Hitachi Storage
$4.3bn acquisition follows industry reports of a nosedive in sales of HDD devices
SSD Firmware Causes Forensic Concern
New research calls the technologies used to safeguard and erase SSD data into question
3PAR-Based SAN Storage System Arrives From HP
HP has integrated 3PAR's products and services into a blade architecture for its cloud-building initiative
Strong Storage Market Recovery Reported For 2010
Disk storage revenues reached £5.1 billion in 2010, showing strong growth in high-end systems
Teradata Buys Aster For ‘Big Data’ Credentials
Teradata has digged deep to acquire Aster Data Systems to improve its big data analytical capabilities
Coraid’s New-Age DAS Throws Out SAN Storage
Coraid claims its AoE Layer 2 protocol offers a much simpler disk storage process than iSCSI or Fibre Channel
Micro-Modular Data Centres Roll Into Britain
Fully-enclosed racks could roll in to take the place of data centres, says Elliptical Modular Systems
New Green Grid Guide Extends To Servers And Storage
In its Data Centre Maturity Model, the Green Grid adds servers and storage to its power and cooling concerns
CeBit: HP Updates Storage And Wireless
HP integrates 3Par's storage into its cloud offering, and upgrades its wireless LAN products for CeBit
Gmail Accounts To Be Recovered From Tape
To restore the Gmail accounts it lost at the weekend, Google is going to its tape backup