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Vordel Introduces Cloud Service Broker to Manage Multi-Domain Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0100

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), released the Vordel Cloud Service Broker that aggregates and manages multi-domain services.

The Multi-Domain Registry (MDRR) aggregates together services across domains. These domains include not only Cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, but also local on-premises services, and business partner services. In this way, all of the services on which a business depends are managed in one place.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 05/11/2009

Intel and Numonyx Announce a Breakthrough in PCM Technology

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:00 +0100

Intel and Numonyx, a provider of memory technologies, announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Gladinet Launches Cloud Gateway for Cloud-Hosted Desktop

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0100

After pioneering the concept of integrating a wide range of cloud services on a PC desktop with its introduction of Cloud Desktop earlier this year, Gladinet, the ubiquitous cloud storage client, rolled out Gladinet Cloud Gateway v1.0 and Cloud Desktop v1.3.

If Cloud Desktop turns the Internet into a virtual PC, Cloud Gateway is its file server. Built on the same open platform as Cloud Desktop, the Gateway connects individual desktops to cloud storage through one access point.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Texas Memory Systems Sets New SPC-1 Records for Flash Storage Performance

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:28:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems announced that its RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) has submitted a record setting SPC-1 Result.

Launched in August, the RamSan-620 produced 254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS with Average Response Time of 0.72 milliseconds all from a 2U rack-mount chassis and delivers its performance at a cost of only $1.13 per SPC-1 IOPS.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 27/10/2009

Panasas Announces the World's Highest-Performance File Storage System

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:00 +0100

Panasas intoroduced the ActiveStor Series 9 parallel storage system, which is believed to be the highest-performance file storage system in the world, as the company claims.

Unlike single-dimensional storage solutions, which offer either high-bandwidth performance or optimized IOPS, the ActiveStor Series 9 uses multiple storage technologies in a synchronized architecture to produce both.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 21/10/2009

Barracuda Launches Integrated Local and Cloud-based Backup Solution in Europe

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:07:00 +0100

Barracuda Networks announced the European launch of its Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution.

It combines the Barracuda Backup Server for restoration on the local network with the Barracuda Backup Service, a cloud-based backup service hosted by two data centres in Europe.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 16/10/2009

IBM Delivers First Integrated Solid State Drive Support

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:35:00 +0100

IBM announced that its storage virtualization offering, the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), “is now faster, more scalable, and delivers the industry’s first integrated Solid State Drive support.”

SVC is a storage virtualization system that complements server virtualization technologies and enables a single point of control for storage resources (both IBM and non-IBM arrays) to support “improved business application availability, better IT infrastructure flexibility, and greater resource utilization.”

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/10/2009

Buffalo First to Ship USB 3.0 HDD

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0100

After announcing the first to market SuperSpeed USB 3.0 External Hard Disk Drive one week ago, Buffalo now gives the details on availability and prices.

The DriveStation HD-HXU3 will hit Japanese shelves in late October for about $225 for 1TB and $284 for 1,5 TB drive. 2TB disk, coming later this year, will cost about $523.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 08/10/2009

Channel Data Releases New REO Business Continuity Appliance

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:00 +0100

Channel Data has released the REO Business Continuity Appliance (BCA) from its principal, Overland Storage. An 'all-in-one' business continuity solution, the REO BCA is designed for both continuous local backup and remote disaster recovery applications.

It is positioned as a flexible data replication solution, enabling automated recovery of mission-critical data and applications at both the local data centre and remote disaster recovery levels.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 01/10/2009

Dataram Unveils XcelaSAN Storage Optimization Appliance

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:52:00 +0100

Dataram has introduced the XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance, as the company claims - the industry's first solution to seamlessly deliver up to 30x performance improvement to existing applications.

The XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance augments existing storage systems by transparently applying caching algorithms that serve the most active block-level data from high speed solid state storage, creating an intelligent, virtual solid state SAN.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/09/2009

DataCore Now Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:00 +0100

DataCore announced support for native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity for its SAN storage virtualisation solutions.

According to the company, their customers can now transition to an FCoE infrastructure while still supporting existing Fibre Channel investments. They can run both FCoE and IP traffic through the same port and on the same wire, eliminating the need and expense for separate SAN and LAN adapters and cables.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 02/09/2009

DataPipe Rolls Out 3PAR Cloud-Agile Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:47:00 +0100

3PAR, a provider of utility storage, announced that managed global IT service provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner DataPipe now offers differentiated virtual private array (VPA) and disaster recovery (DR) services as part of their Stratosphere cloud services, which are powered by 3PAR Utility Storage.

DataPipe is the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer its customers 3PAR Cloud-Agile ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile SECURED services through this program.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 31/08/2009

Pillar First to Deliver 2TB SATA to Enterprise Customers

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:37:00 +0100

In a frame of the company’s initiative to “Stop Storage Waste” and as a part of its Axiom system, Pillar Data Systems, the provider of Application-Aware storage systems, makes 2 terabyte SATA drives available to the enterprise market.

The new drives push the Axiom’s overall usable capacity to over 1.6 petabytes per system, while driving down overall power consumption by 50 percent and space consumption by 2X.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 28/08/2009

Spectra Logic Launches Next Level Tape Storage Solution

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:00 +0100

Spectra Logic has launched what it claims is the industry’s first integrated system for deduplication, remote site replication and automated migration to tape.

nTier Deduplication achieves increased deduplication efficiency by sharing deduplication catalogs among remote sites. Users no longer need to establish multiple policies across numerous sites or purchase separate software to move replicated deduplication data to a tape archive.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 27/08/2009

Verizon to Offer New Encryption Services For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:55:00 +0100

Verizon is expanding its encryption service to cover documents and e-mail. Encrypted Docs enables the user to encrypt files and folders and determine who can access, read and write to the file or folder, enforcing privacy policies.
According to the company, e-mail encryption and newly added data encryption services will help prevent privacy leaks, unauthorized access and help keep documents private in case of theft or loss.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 20/08/2009

BTI Receives Brocade Data Center Ready Status for Storage Networking Modules

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:27:00 +0100

BTI Systems has announced that the BTI 7000 Series has additional client services modules, verified by Brocade Communications Systems, as compatible with Brocade-based SAN infrastructure.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 19/08/2009

Xyratex First to Announce Support for Hitachi’s 2TB HD

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:51:00 +0100

Xyratex has announced support for Hitachi GST’s enterprise-class 7,200 RPM 2TB offering, the Ultrastar A7K2000 hard disk drive. The company claims new Hitachi’s drive have been fully integrated into Xyratex’s family of storage systems. The Ultrastar A7K2000 will be available for Xyratex products over the next quarter.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 14/08/2009

Nexsan and FalconStor to Deliver New Nexsan DeDupe SG Family

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:43:00 +0100

Nexsan Technologies, the provider of disk-based storage and FalconStor Software, the provider of data protection solutions, announced a strategic venture to deliver a joint solution, which has resulted in the delivery of an integrated deduplication product family for high-performance, power-efficient data storage.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 11/08/2009

Texas Memory Systems Delivers Record 5-Million IOPS Flash-based SSD System

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:27:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems launches the RamSan-6200 SSD System that offers up to 100 terabytes of Flash-based storage in a 40U rack configuration that can sustain a record 5 million input/outputs per second (IOPS) with 60 gigabytes per second throughput while using a little over 6 kilowatts of power.

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DataCore and Citrix to Distribute Free-To-Try DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:19:00 +0100

DataCore Software, the provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced that it has teamed up with Citrix Systems to distribute a free to try, downloadable, DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance. The company also released a Citrix StorageLink adapter to integrate its storage virtualisation solutions with Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V.

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Digital Realty Trust Launches Pod Architecture Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:16:00 +0100

Digital Realty Trust, the wholesale datacenter provider, has launched a new offering called POD Architecture Services(SM) to provide design and construction services to companies that own or want to own their own datacenter facility, and would like to leverage Digital Realty Trust's datacenter expertise and resources.

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Teradata Announces Availability of Its Newest Database for Enterprise Intelligence

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:50:00 +0100

Teradata Corporation, the company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced general availability of Teradata 13, which includes Teradata Database 13, Teradata Tools and Utilities 13, services and partnerships.

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LSI Launches RAID Controller Cards Based On 6Gb/s SAS Technology

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:08:00 +0100

LSI has launched a new generation of MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller cards based on 6Gb/s SAS technology.
The storage and networking solution provider has also announced its new channel strategy for worldwide customers.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 30/07/2009

WD Ships First 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:42:00 +0100

WD has announced a one terabyte mobile hard drive for mobile storage applications and notebooks - the industry's highest-capacity available 2.5-inch drive
The 333 GB-per-platter technology in the new WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard is available in 1 TB capacity as well as a 750 GB. The launch came as WD announced Q4 Revenue of USD $1.9 Billion and Net Income of USD $196 Million.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 30/07/2009

Verbatim Releases 500 GB "Gold" 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive For 40th anniversary

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +0100

Verbatim is to mark its 40th anniversary by releasing a limited edition ´gold` portable external hard drive.
The gold-coloured UV coating of the special Anniversary Edition, houses a 500 GB 2.5" hard drive that includes easy-to-use backup and synchronization software.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 30/07/2009

Telehouse Offers Service to Reduce Data Loss Risk

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:41:00 +0100

TELEHOUSE America has announced it is offering Integralis' data loss prevention (DLP) consulting services as part of its Manage-E solution.
Manage-E customers of TELEHOUSE can now leverage global information risk management provider Integralis' expertise in all aspects of DLP and data risk management, as well as its comprehensive methodology to determine an organization's unique data risk factors and the appropriate data protection policies, processes and solutions.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 23/07/2009

Corsair Launches new 'Extreme' Series High-Performance SSDs

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:19:00 +0100

Corsair has added another "s" to solid state storage with its latest offering - Speed.
The Extreme Series X32, X64 and X128 high-performance SSDs, in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB densities respectively, offer read speeds of up to 240MB/s and write speeds of up to 170MB/s.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 17/07/2009

Verbatim Boosts Portable Hard Drives with SureFire FW800/USB2 HDD Line

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:03:00 +0100

Verbatim has launched a new line of portable combo FW800/USB2 HDDs available in capacities of 250GB, 320GB and 500GB.
The company says the rugged palm-sized FireWire drives combine power, convenience and reliability with a compact, sleek design that can be plugged into almost any computer.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 17/07/2009

BlueArc Unleashes High-end Network Storage Solution

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:01:00 +0100

BlueArc has launched its Mercury series network storage platform in a bid to address the storage challenges faced by many midsize companies.
Michael Gustafson, president and CEO of BlueArc, said that as the volume of unstructured, file-based data continues to explode, and retention and archiving demands increase, companies of all sizes are struggling to keep pace.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 10/07/2009

Texas Announces Microsoft Certification of RamSan-500 SSD

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:47:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems has announced that its RamSan-500 solid state disk system has been certified as interoperable with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008.
The RamSan-500 is an enterprise-class cached Flash storage system that delivers high performance, large capacity storage more economically than adding a similar capacity high-end hard disk-based RAID system.

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Freecom Adds RFID to HDD

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:35:00 +0100

Freecom has launched an external HDD that requires the use of a keycard to get access to its data.
Admission to the Hard Drive Secure is controlled by an RFID card which has to be swiped over the HDD to lock it - and again to unlock it.

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WhipTail Introduces 6TB SSD Tier 0 Storage Appliance

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:14:00 +0100

WhipTail Technologies has launched a 6TB SSD appliance which it claims provides mid- to large-sized enterprises with the highest-capacity SSD tier 0 appliance with the smallest footprint.
Manufactured as a 2 rack unit (2U), WhipTail is now available in 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 TB and varying levels of redundancies.

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Notebook Vendors Not Hopeful Windows 7 Will Boost SSD Sales

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:01:00 +0100

Windows 7's support for SSDs will not do much to boost sales because the price gap with HDDs is still too high.
That's according to a report in Digitimes, which spoke to sources at notebook vendors.

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Intel Advances Roadmap to Double SSD Capacity

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:53:00 +0100

Intel is to implement the projected doubling of its SSD capacities earlier than expected - possibly as soon as next month.
The current X18-M and X25-M solid-state drives (SSDs) use a 50nm process and have 80GB and 160GB capacities with 2-bit multi-level cell (MLC) technology.

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Green-House Launches New Line of SSDs

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:00 +0100

The Japanese firm Green-House has announced a new line of 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs that use PATA IDE interface.
Both lines are available with capacities ranging from 16GB to 128GB.

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Varisys Boosts Storage Range

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:57:00 +0100

Varisys has added to its range of storage products with two new high performance boards intended for use in harsh environments.
The VTS2 also provides high-density storage in standard form factors. It is now available in a conduction-cooled assembly that provides VME users the ability to add mass storage into a rugged system.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 26/06/2009

Adaptec Introduces Greener More Efficient RAID Controllers

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:44:00 +0100

Adaptec has announced the availability of its Series 5Z Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controller family.
The company said these high-performance controllers integrate an industry first - a flash-based Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection module that provides data center managers with a single controller solution for data protection in the event of both power loss and drive failure.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 26/06/2009

WD Launches Dual-Drive Network Storage System

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:33:00 +0100

WD has unveiled its newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual- drive network storage system in capacities of up to 4 TB.
The company said the double protection of two Mirrored (RAID 1) drives and continuous backup software, makes the storage system extra-safe for users to back up and store the data and digital media.

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SanDisk 32GB Flash Card Handles HD Video

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:25:00 +0100

SanDisk is offering a new Extreme SDHC card which it claims is the world's fastest 32GB card - with both the capacity and I/O speed to handle HD video clips.
With a sustained write speed - up to 30 megabits-per-second - the company said it is fast enough to capture a storehouse of up to 160 minutes of full HD (1920x1080) video at a 24Mb/s data transfer rate.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 26/06/2009

Storage Cost Savings and Dynamic Provisioning

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:43:00 +0100

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, has introduced unique capabilities across software and services to enable customers to reclaim underutilised storage capacity and increase the return on their assets.
This announcement highlights the company’s strategic Global Services capabilities to further extend the economic and optimisation benefits customers can achieve leveraging Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning technology.

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Samsung Reveals the First 32 Gigabyte DDR3 Memory Module, for Low-Power Server Operations

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:00 +0100

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has announced that it has developed the world’s first 32 Gigabyte (GB) DDR3 module – for use in server systems.
The new module operates at 1.35-volts, in support of the global trend to cut power usage in mass storage computing environments.

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DataSlide Announces Oracle's Embedded Berkeley Database Partnership

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:41:00 +0100

DataSlide, the massively parallel green storage company, has announced their embedded architecture and Partnership Network agreement with Oracle.
Oracle's Berkeley Database embedded onto the DataSlide storage drive enables 3rd party developers the ability to implement next generation Business Intelligence right onto the storage system. This is a significant step for DataSlide as they move towards productizing Hard Rectangular Drives(TM) HRD(TM).

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2TB Memory Cards By 2010?

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:47:00 +0100

Storage of consumer electronics could be boosted by as much as 2TB with the arrival of a new generation of memory cards.
That's the expectation of the SD Association, which suggest Secure Digital memory cards based on the new SDXC (extended capacity) specification could be out as early as next year.

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Sony Ericsson Drops Proprietary Memory Cards For Standard MicroSD

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:30:00 +0100

Sony Ericsson is to stop using its proprietary memory card format in favor of the standard and more popular MicroSD.
The change will will make moving content between the mobile handsets and PCs easier.

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Infortrend Offers First 8g Fc Storage With Comprehensive Form Factor Choices

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:25:00 +0100

Infortrend has announced the addition of 2U and 4U models to its EonStor G6 8Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solutions.
The move by the networked storage expert to provide additional form factors is intended to help more users meet their application requirements.

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Online Data Backup Center Aims For Zero Carbon Footprint

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:48:00 +0100

A UK-based provider of online data backups is building a technically-advanced data center powered solely by renewable energy.
Located in North Wiltshire, WorldBackups has purchased a 2,600 sq. ft. ex-BT exchange where it will develop its own on-site renewable energy generation, passing on the reduced power costs to its customers.

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Sun Expands Unified Storage Family

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:39:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems is extending its Unified Storage family with an array that allows solid state disk (SSD) drives and hard disk drives to be used in the same chassis and under the same management interface.
The Sun Storage 7310 is a comprehensive, Flash-powered storage system that includes leverages Hybrid Storage Pool capabilities.

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HP Launches New SMB Storage Offerings, Cuts Staff

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:33:00 +0100

Hewlett-Packard is to introduce several new storage, virtualization, PC, printing and services offerings in an effort to capture a larger share of the Small and Midsize Business (SMB) market.
The move comes as the company begins consultations on cutting nearly six thousand European jobs, including 850 in the UK and Germany.

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Corevault Issues Guidelines on Disaster Data Protection

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:25:00 +0100

CoreVault has released guidelines to ensure organizational safety and expedient data Relevant Products/Services recovery in the event a catastrophe strikes.
The managed backup and recovery solutions provider said that forward-thinking companies in severe-weather-prone area should take maximum precautions when preparing for disruptions caused by tornadoes and other natural disasters.

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PANDUIT Launches Fiber Optic System To Address Data Center Demands

dave@biz-news.com (David Montgomery) — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:09:00 +0100

PANDUIT has introduced next-generation, high-speed data transport capabilities for the data center.
The high performance, fiber optic system to connect server, storage, and network systems is aimed at meeting ever-increasing bandwidth and application requirements.

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