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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 - ...
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  IN PICTURES: Harnessing the power of the Cloud roundtable

• NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 February, 2012 09:29

  Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

• Google's GDrive reportedly to launch as Dropbox-rival 'Drive'

  By Ian Paul | 10 February, 2012 01:38

  Google's long-rumored GDrive that would let you upload and store files to its servers and be able to access them from anywhere you have an Internet connection may finally be close to launching in the coming weeks as a more cheaply priced Dropbox rival.

• Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

• IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 February, 2012 09:21

  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.

• Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 February, 2012 01:24

  Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday.

• Legend’s profits up 27 per cent.

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 February, 2012 14:31

  Legend’s profits up 27 per cent

• EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

• Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 02:01

  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.

• 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.

• 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?

• What SMBS want

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 08 September, 2010 11:42

  SMBs are smaller than enterprises, but are storage requirements that much different? MATTHEW SAINSBURY reports.

• A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized

  By Lucas Mearian | 29 July, 2010 01:17

  Near the turn of the century, data centers were only beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SAN), with most relying on direct-attached storage (DAS). Data utilization rates were abysmal, with data centers on average using just 25% to 30% of their hard disk drive capacity.