Stories by: Lucas Mearian

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NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers 10 February, 2012 09:29:23

Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage services.
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IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching 08 February, 2012 09:21:24

IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.
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Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive 07 February, 2012 02:01:23

Intel Monday started shipping its fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD), the first to use the SandForce (now LSI) SFI-2281 NAND flash controller , which promises 500MB/sec-plus performance.
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Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software 07 February, 2012 00:26:00

Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.
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EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards 06 February, 2012 08:32:24

EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.
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Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays 01 February, 2012 05:36:32

Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.
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2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity 31 January, 2012 06:58:00

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.
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Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service 26 January, 2012 06:31:42

Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.
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CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system 26 January, 2012 00:11:58

Object-based storage vendor Cleversafe today announced the availability of a storage system that can house up to 10 exabytes (that's 1 billion gigabytes) of data in a single pool of capacity.
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EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages 25 January, 2012 09:32:44

EMC CEO Joe Tucci today offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap, 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.
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EMC's Tucci changes mind, to stay on as CEO into 2013 25 January, 2012 05:08:00

EMC CEO Joe Tucci has said he would honour a request from EMC's board and remain chairman and CEO into 2013.