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  60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

  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.

  By Lucas Mearian | 23 May, 2012 01:27

  Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, iSuppli, IHS

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  EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

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

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  Tags: Syncplicity, storage, mergers and acquisitions, internet, EMC, cloud computing, business issues

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  EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

  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.

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2012 23:11

  Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

• New mobile DRAM standard for 4G networks offers 50% performance boost

  The specification for the next generation of mobile DRAM was published Thursday, offering a 50% performance boost for makers of the memory technology.

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 06:15

  Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, smartphones, Mobile and Wireless, laptops, hardware systems, consumer electronics

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

  Shades of Mission Impossible.

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Tags: storage, security

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

  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.

  By Anup Varier | 18 May, 2012 00:20

  Tags: storage, networking, hardware systems

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  Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  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.

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  Tags: storage, netapp, Microsoft, IT industry, iSuppli, Intel, IHS, hardware systems, Google, Emerging Technologies, EMC, dell, Apple

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  Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

  Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

  Tags: VMware, storage, Networked Storage, network-attached storage

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  New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance

  The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald in a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike.

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 May, 2012 20:18

  Tags: storage, iSuppli, Intel, IHS, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

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  Microsoft touts Win8's ability to detect, fix hard disk problems

  Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive and disruptive, even as disk capacity continues to balloon.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 11 May, 2012 06:46

  Tags: Windows 8, Windows, storage, software, operating systems, Microsoft, Drives

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  EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

  Advancing its roadmap toward increased use of flash storage, EMC today announced that it has purchased start-up all-flash array maker XtremIO.

  By Lucas Mearian | 11 May, 2012 03:14

  Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

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  Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

  If you want to speed up your PC but don't want to deal with a new hybrid hard drive, one way is to simply add an SSD cache drive to your PC. These drives aren't meant to be mass storage devices; instead, they cache your most frequent application operations and thereby improve performance.

  By Bill O'Brien | 10 May, 2012 21:03

  Tags: storage software, Storage Management, Storage Hardware, storage

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  Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

  Cloud service provider Pogoplug today unveiled Pogoplug Team, which allows home offices and small businesses to turn file servers or spare PCs into pools of storage accessible from the Web.

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 May, 2012 02:59

  Tags: storage, Pogoplug, internet, Google, Dropbox, cloud computing, Box.net

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  Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Tags: Virtualization, texas memory systems, Storage Hardware, storage, software, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, databases, applications

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  Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

  Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 06:27

  Tags: storage, SSD, seagate, Drives