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  IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Big Data
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  IN PICTURES: IIIS 2011 - on display ... the trade ...
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  IN PICTURES: IIIS 2011 - the show rolls on
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  IN PICTURES: Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium 2011, day one - ...

• WhiteGold and Imation seal distie partnership

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 June, 2012 15:57

  Scalable storage and data security vendor, Imation, has signed a distribution deal with WhiteGold Solutions to expand its presence for scalable storage solutions within the Australian market.

• Massachusetts to tackle big data with MIT, Intel

  By Nick Barber | 30 May, 2012 22:38

  With several big data initiatives announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Governor Deval Patrick said he wants to make the state a hub for big data research.

• 60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

  By Lucas Mearian | 23 May, 2012 01:27

  The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to an IHS iSuppli storage space market report published Monday.

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2012 23:11

  At its annual user conference today, EMC announced upgrades across most of its major product lines, including a new high-end Symmetrix VMAX array with up to 4PB capacity and twice the performance of its predecessor.

• Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Shades of Mission Impossible.

• 3 Factors Pushing Indian IT Infrastructure Market to $3 bn by 2016

  By Anup Varier | 18 May, 2012 00:20

  Gartner recently announced that the Indian IT infrastructure market comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment will reach $2.05 billion (approximately INR 13,500 crore) in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase over 2011. It also mentioned that this is expected to reach $3.01 billion (approximately INR 16,200 crore) by 2016.

• Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker's intellectual property.

• Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 September, 2011 07:16

  In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

• Top 15 Cloud storage tips and tasks

  By Ian Paul | 07 May, 2012 11:31

  No single cloud service can do everything. Some shine when it comes to streaming a cloud music collection from the Web, but stink at syncing desktop folders. Other cloud services are great for sharing photos, but useless for reviewing a document's revision history.

• Hands on with Google Drive

  By Serenity Caldwell | 25 April, 2012 06:48

  Start your engines: Google’s long-rumored Drive service is officially out and ready for a test… well, drive. The search giant’s answer to services like Dropbox, Drive offers 5GB of free online storage space that also syncs with a local folder on the desktop of your Mac or PC. (An Android app is currently available, with an iOS app in the works.)

• 2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

  By Lucas Mearian | 31 January, 2012 06:58

  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.

• The evolution of hard disk drives

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 January, 2011 13:22

  A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks

• Delorean hard drive is perfect for time machine

  By Chris Brandrick | 30 November, 2010 12:16

  Attention all Back To The Future fans: If you're in the market for a new hard drive, then the folks over at Flash Rods have something just for you. Flash Rods latest, known as the Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive, contains a 500GB Seagate drive within the chassis of the much-loved Delorean from the Back To The Future trilogy.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• Share USB storage everywhere

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 25 September, 2010 03:46

  If you thought USB drives were only for attaching to desktop or laptop computers, think again. Various manufacturers provide ways to connect such drives to your network, so you can retrieve files stored on them from across your network, or even via the Internet.

• NASs for the masses

  By David Newman | 27 September, 2010 15:05

  Either because server disks are full or because virtualization is a natural growth path, organizations large and small are moving toward shared storage. For large enterprises, high-capacity storage-area networks make sense, but what about small or mid-sized enterprises new to shared storage?