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British IT companies attracting strong private equity investment

Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are among the fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the UK, with 26 sector companies featuring in the latest Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci warns disk storage shortages will continue

EMC CEO Joe Tucci offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap yesterday, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.
Microsoft's Windows Server 8 will feature new age file system

The upcoming release of Windows Server 8 will feature an entirely new file system, called ReFS, that addresses many of the shortcomings of the aging NTFS (New Technology File System) now used across all current Windows editions, the company announced Tuesday in a blog.
IBM makes breakthrough, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

IBM researchers have discovered a way to create a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms, which compares to today's magnetic data storage technology requiring about one million atoms for a single bit.
Explosion in "big data" causing data centre crunch

Global business has been caught off-guard by the recent explosion in data volumes and is trying to cope with short-term fixes such as buying in data centre capacity, research by Oracle has found.
Dell unveils new Fluid Data storage products

Dell is bulking out its storage portfolio under the Fluid Data architecture umbrella, with the announcement of four new products building on its acquisitions of Ocarina, Compellent and EqualLogic.
Google sued by BT over patent infringement

BT has filed a civil suit in a Delaware court alleging that some Google products and services including Android, and its search, music, map, and location-based advertising infringe on one or more of six of its patents.
Sony Ericsson Xperia owners get 50GB of free cloud storage from Box

Sony Ericsson is offering owners of its Xperia smartphones 50GB of free online data storage in partnership with cloud storage company Box.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage executives plead guilty to price fixing

Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the US for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers.
SSD storage should replace data tiering, says Forrester report

Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

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Data destruction - The in-depth guide

A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs.
Why Big Data means a big year for Hadoop

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.
Four ways to beat data bloat

It is estimated that unstructured data - everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media - accounts for at least 90% of an organisation's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT organisations will grow by as much as 800% in the next five years.
How to get your enterprise out of the mobility stone age

Consumers relish in their cool gadgets at home and there are new apps to try on a daily basis. Then there's work. Same black laptop. Same BlackBerry. Same applications. It's been a long time since there's been anything radically new to get excited about at the office.
Operating systems will cease to be important as the browser rises

Operating systems will remain important for as long as we use computers, but mostly they will matter only to the people behind the scenes.
Proceed with caution when adopting Hadoop

Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released by analyst firm Forrester Research urges.
Getting the most out of flash storage

Over the past few years mainstream enterprises have been turning to NAND flash storage to boost speed and decrease latency, but some vendors still produce products that inhibit customers from achieving flash's full potential.
Four reasons to upgrade to Firefox 6

Mozilla has more than a thousand changes under the hood of the latest version of Firefox, but only few provide worthwhile reasons for upgrading to the newest release of the browser.
11 free Microsoft tools many users are overlooking

Microsoft has a virtual monopoly on desktop operating systems with Windows and on office productivity with its Office suite - as well as a dominant share of the web browser market with Internet Explorer.
How Apple will use 12 petabytes of storage

Apple is ordering a heaping helping of data storage - 12 petabytes, to be exact - from Isilon Systems, a division of EMC that specialises in scale-out storage. Cupertino plans to use that cavernous space to manage video downloads of its iTunes' customers, an anonymous insider at EMC tells StorageNewsletter.com.

How-tos

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