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  • Three Bulgarians arrested in connection to US banks phishing scheme

    Bulgarian authorities have arrested three men on charges of being part of an international cybercriminal gang that targeted US bank customers.

  • Flash storage vendor Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine

    Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to $95 million (£58 million) to extend its on-server cache products to virtualised environments.

  • High resolution and 3D media to need seven times more storage in five years

    Over the next five years, the media and entertainment industry will see digital storage capacity requirements jump from 11 exabytes to 62 exabytes.

  • Cisco unveils expansion of data centre portfolio

    Cisco this week is expanding its data centre product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones and enhancements to its servers and software.

  • SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find

    A technology built into many new solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could inadvertently be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, researchers have discovered.

  • Memeo Connect automates Google Docs sync

    Memeo unveiled a major update to Memeo Connect today with the launch of the Memeo Connect 2.0 beta. Memeo Connect 2.0 adds features and functionality to make Google Docs more productive and enterprise ready, including Google GDrive, a concept that Google customers have been demanding since Google Docs was first introduced.

  • Sony stops making floppy disks

    The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year.

  • IBM launches new tiered storage products

    IBM announced storage features and products today, including data tiering software, higher capacity hard drives and next-generation tape drive technology.

  • Boffins claim lasers could supercharge disk I/O

    A team of French physicists have discovered a way to use lasers to accelerate storage I/O on hard discs by up to 100,000 times current read/write methods.

  • Researchers create storage medium just 10 atoms thick

    University researchers have demonstrated a new data storage medium made out of a layer of graphite only 10 atoms thick. The technology could potentially provide many times the capacity of current flash memory and withstand temperatures of 200°C and radiation that would make solid-state disk memory disintegrate.

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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.

  • IBM futuristic storage aims for speed and density

    IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.

  • A simple guide to thin provisioning

    While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilisation rates, a costly problem that can be addressed with thin provisioning technology.

  • A guide to SSDs: What you need to know

    Chances are increasing that you'll use flash memory for primary storage, but nasty surprises are possible with naive adoption

  • Why Apple's Wozniak loves flash storage drives

    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak accepted a position as chief scientist at solid state drive company Fusion-io earlier this year. Wozniak says he took the job because the company is so much like Apple was in its early days and he sees a huge market for solid state storage on PCIe cards.

  • The future of tape

    As Hamlet might have said "To tape or not to tape", but it's a question that's a no-brainer for most smaller businesses, fighting to contain costs.

  • Blade servers vs. rack servers

    In the world of datacentre computing, there's a lot of contention over whether deploying rackable servers is better than deploying blade servers to host consolidated or virtualised applications.

  • Windows Server 2008 revealed: Hyper-V virtualisation

    Here's a look at how Hyper-V works, its major benefits and when you can expect to deploy this feature in production environments.

  • Archiving has nothing to do with ?Dusty Vaults?

    Archiving terminology seems to have been turned and twisted by a variety of interested parties, confusing the market and hiding its real benefits.

  • Storage in the cloud

    Clusters of mega-data centres using millions of servers and disk drives do not use traditional SAN, NAS and DAS storage. Instead intelligent file systems and fail-safe storage hardware is being developed to store petabytes of data safely.





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