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• Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2013 10:15

  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.

• Australia a doorway to business in the East: HDS

  By Patrick Budmar | 16 May, 2013 15:07

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

• Fujitsu signs Dicker Data

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 15 May, 2013 14:12

  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.

• Thomas Duryea secures contract with MCRI

  By Hafizah Osman | 14 May, 2013 13:20

  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 to distribute Actifio Copy Data Storage (CDS) appliances

  By Mike Gee | 14 May, 2013 10:59

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

• Microsoft improves photo management in SkyDrive

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 13 May, 2013 19:28

  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.

• Box to revamp document viewing with Crocodoc acquisition

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 09 May, 2013 23:21

  Box has acquired Crocodoc in a move to significantly improve the way documents are rendered for viewing on its enterprise storage and file sharing service.

• DiData introduces tiered storage for public CaaS customers

  By Nermin Bajric | 09 May, 2013 10:47

  ICT solutions and services provider, Dimension Data, has introduced tiered storage options to its enterprise-class public compute-as-a-service (CaaS) offering.

• 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.

• Opinion: Younity 1.5 could render Cloud storage obsolete

  By Tony Bradley | 26 April, 2013 20:30

  As we’ve become a more mobile society - working from virtually anywhere on our smartphones and tablets - we’ve also embraced various cloud storage and file sharing tools, so we can access and collaborate on our data. Younity has an entirely different approach, and it could make cloud storage obsolete.

• New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

  By Robert L. Scheier | 25 March, 2013 10:17

  Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators.

• How big is the sound of music?

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 March, 2013 10:07

  Music fans and major recording artists are adopting lossless audio file formats to keep copies of their music thats as close to a master recording as possible, leading to multi-terabyte-sized home music storage systems.

• Tape storage finds new life in the enterprise and beyond

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 January, 2013 15:45

  Tape is not dead - far from it. In fact, many enterprises depend on it for cost-effective long-term storage. Tape is also finding new applications in the virtualized and increasingly video-centric world of IT. As enterprises deal with bigger sets of data, tape will play a vital role going forward.

• The CES International Pavilion: Weird, prosaic, wonderful ...

  By Loyd Case | 10 January, 2013 20:02

  If you wander through the small booths inside the Venetian Hotel conference center CES rooms, you find another door, way in the back. It leads to the CES International Pavilion, full of endless aisles of austere booths that all look alike.

• 10 great PC accessories that cost less than $200

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 13 December, 2012 16:54

  PCs are incredibly useful tools, but if you want to get the most from your desktop or laptop, you’'ll need to look beyond CPU speeds and storage capacities, and pick the right accessories. Gamers are well serviced here—check out our guide to gaming upgrades if you’re looking to get more from shooters, strategy games, and so on. And if you’re just looking for an inexpensive new monitor or a comfortable keyboard, we’ve got you covered too.

• 2012: The year in quotes

  By Nancy Weil | 12 December, 2012 13:45

  Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

• "The Human Face of Big Data" offers a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 30 November, 2012 21:25

  "The Human Face of Big Data" is an ambitious and attractive new large-format book that aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Author Rick Smolan is a photographer who gained fame for his "Day in the Life" series, which included an edition focused on the Internet in 1996, "24 Hours in Cyberspace." He says that his latest work is based on the premise that "our planet is beginning to develop a nervous system."