Storage: News

It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.

Citrix ended its Synergy'13 conference on a high note, with a partner appreciation party that included drinks, food and a performance by popular band, Maroon 5. The band swooned the women (and some of the men) with their top hits, leaving everyone wanting for more by the end of the night. Warning - there may be one too many pictures of frontman, Adam Levine.

Fujitsu Forum Tokyo, the company's largest annual event, was held May 16-17 2013 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. 12,000 IT decision-makers and experts from around the world attended the event.

Fujitsu Forum 2013 – Reshaping ICT, Rehaping Business, Society - featured seminars and exhibitions demonstrating Fujitsu‘s latest products, services and technologies. This includes the company's initiatives to build safe, secure and sustainable cities; its approach to leveraging ICT to give customers a competitive edge, as well as the Cloud and Big Data analysis technologies that make this possible.

Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.

As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the Cloud.

Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a service.

By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.

A Cisco survey of mobile users reveals strong desire for BYOD programs and clear productivity gains. But hold off on those BYOD mandates because the love for corporate devices hasn't burned out yet.

HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.

Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

Barracuda Networks has upped the amount of storage on its free Copy.com service from 5GB to 15GB.

Hitachi Data Systems A/NZ vice-president and general manager, Neil Evans, characterises Australia as the “Western gateway to the East”.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

Fujitsu has inked a deal with Dicker Data to distribute the full range of server and storage products in a bid to increase SMB focus and get access to the larger reseller network.

IT infrastructure solutions provider, Thomas Duryea, has secured a contract with Australian child health research institute, Murdoch Childrens’ Research Institute (MCRI), to design and deploy a new storage infrastructure platform.

Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. Sun went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988.

Microsoft is rolling out changes to SkyDrive to enhance management of photos in the cloud storage service, including more efficient viewing and uploading of files.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured?

Kim Dotcom has ordered the removal from his Mega file-storage service design plans for a controversial one-bullet plastic gun.