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Tales In Tech History: The Floppy Disk
Before the days of email attachments and USB sticks, PC users had to utilise the humble floppy disk
Home Office Criticised Over ‘Flimsy’ Consultation For Investigatory Powers Act
Longer consultation needed. Open letter slams Home Secretary Amber Rudd for 'breaching' Cabinet Office guidelines
Intel Optane Drives Bring 3D XPoint Memory Tech To PC And Laptops
The chip maker aims to shake up storage in consumer and business PCs
IBM Launches Cloud-Based Enterprise-Ready Blockchain Service
Big Blue wants major companies to get stuck into blockchain networks
IBM Researchers Store Data At Atomic Level On The World’s Smallest Magnet
Nanotechnology and quantum tunneling look to be the future of data storage
Facebook Releases Bryce Canyon Storage And Big Basin AI Design To Open Compute Project
Design specification released for Facebook's new storage platform, coupled with the new AI 'Big Basin' Design
Google Blasted By Danish Watchdog Over Uncapped TIme Storage Of Personal Data
The search giant is being probed yet again by a European watchdog
Microsoft Encrypts Cloud Data With Azure Storage Service
Azure users will be able to encrypt their cloud data by default as Microsoft previews Storage Service Encryption
HPE Server And Networking Tech Keeps DS Virgin Racing Speeding Along
To keep in contention DS Virgin Racing turned to HPE for big data crunching tech
How Barclays Avoids Downtime Chaos
Bala Chandrasekaran of Barclays, explains how the bank hopes to avoid a repeat of last year's Christmas banking disaster
Intel Shuns Cloud As The Only Route To IoT, Instead Champions 5G And New Atom E3900
Cloud as core to the Internet of Things has been branded a fallacy
First Fruits of Dell EMC Union Appear In Storage, Hyperconverged Infrastructure Products
DELL EMC WORLD 2016: Just six weeks in, Dell EMC merger is making its mark in storage, HCI and security
Intel And GE Turn Trains Into Core i7 Powered ‘Superbrain’ Mobile Data Centres
The two companies are creating what they call mobile data centres in trains
Apple, Google And Amazon Support Microsoft With US Government Gag Order Fight
Tech and media compaines throw Microsoft their support of a gagging lawsuit fight with the US government
Kim Dotcom Begins Appeal Against Extradition Ruling
Megaupload's Kim Dotcom wants New Zealand court appeal against extradition to be live streamed
Intel 3D NAND SSDs Target Consumer, Business And Data Centre
New more affordable SSDs launched that promise more performance in a smaller footprint
Report: Dropbox Mulls Possible Public Listing
Cloud storage provider calls in advisers to discuss possible IPO, despite not making a profit
Medium Businesses Leading In Flash Adoption
NetApp survey finds strong growth of UK flash storage adoption, especially in SMBs
HPE Rolls Out Entry-Level Flash Platforms
New flash and software-defined options targeted at small and medium businesses
Seagate Launches World’s Highest Capacity SSD
60 terabyte flash monster will ship to data centres in 2017
Cyber Attack Uses Google Drive To Deliver 9002 Trojan
Hackers use Google Drive to host malicious files that seems to be targeting a number of Asian countries
Competition: Win A LinkStation 510 Network Attached Storage Unit
PRIZE: Want to win a NAS unit for your network? Enter our competition to win a Buffallo LS 510!
Privacy Shield Gets Green Light From EU Governments
Safe Harbour 2.0 moves one step closer after European member states approve reworked data sharing deal with the US
Brexit Concern As EU and US Agree To Strengthen Privacy Shield
The United States and EU agree to modify data transfer pact, but what now for the UK?
Toshiba Looks To Power Users With 8TB HDD
How big? Life still left in magnetic platters as Toshiba launches a 8TB HDD for power users
Privacy Shield Setback After Officials Demand More Time
Meeting with European officials fails to reach agreement on data sharing agreement with the United States
Dell Targets Flash With Storage Center Operating System 7
Dell's enterprise storage operating system follows introduction of a network OS earlier this year
IBM Triples PCM Storage Capacity So It Can Finally Challenge Flash
RIP Flash and DRAM? Big Blue researchers demonstrate reliable phase-change memory (PCM)
Samsung Launches World’s Highest Capacity 256GB MicroSD Card
256GB Samsung card gives even more room for all your photos, videos and apps