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SanDisk Q2 Profit Slips 95 Percent From Previous Year
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-19
There might be some consternation at the SanDisk headquarters and among shareholders as the result of solid-state drive (SSD) price wars that are currently in full swing. The
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New Oracle Tape System 'Trickles Down' to Midrangers
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-18
Some skeptics would call Oracle's new low-end tape storage system a "dumbing down" of a more sophisticated, large-enterprise deployment. Others might describe it simply as the
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Dell Launches $60M R&D Investment Fund for Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-17
Dell is putting its cash on the barrelhead in a serious effort to come up with new ideas and strategies for future enterprise storageware. Founder and CEO Michael Dell told
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Intel Lowers Prices on SSDs, Adds 240GB Drive to Catalog
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-16
People who work in and carefully watch the solid-state disk industry are generally pretty optimistic that prices are going to continue to come down this year and next as the
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Backupify Gets Help from Symantec in Series C Funding
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-11
Backupify, a 4-year-old startup that provides backup, search and restore services for online services such as Facebook, Google Apps, Salesforce, and Twitter, said July 11 that
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More Free Capacity in the Offing for Dropbox Pro Users
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-10
With an estimated 15 to 20 percent of all personal data files now being stored--or at least backed up--in cloud services, the market is really starting to heat up. Those
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Samsung Readying Fast New Memory Circuitry for Servers
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-07-03
Get ready for a technical mouthful.Samsung said July 3 that it has begun sampling the industry's first 16GB Double Data Rate-4 (DDR4), Registered Dual Inline Memory Modules
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Newcomer Skyera Brings Fresh Approach to SSD Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-06-19
New-generation approaches to solid-state storage systems, based on firsthand experience with both the successes and failures of past development initiatives, continue to come to
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Toshiba Jumps Ahead With 19nm SSDs for Notebooks
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-06-05
Toshiba Storage Products jumped ahead of its competitors on June 4 to unveil the first solid-state drives to use the smaller, thinner 19-nanometer NAND flash process.The THNSNF
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Kroll Ontrack Unveils Specialized iPhone, iPad Data Recovery
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-05-29
More and more iPhones, iPads and iPods (remember those?) are getting into people's hands, so that means that an increasing amount of files are being stored on them.
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Overland Launches New Autoloader for LTO Systems
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-05-01
Overland Storage, the San Diego-based company that has had to reinvent itself to remain competitive in the midrange and SMB storage markets, on May 1 announced the
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SGI Storage Gets Virtualized With New NAS
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-16
Data center systems provider SGI has introduced a new network-attached storage package, fully integrated with VMware's vSphere, that is aimed at IT systems with high-volume workloads. SGI hasn't
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WD's HGST Division Comes Out with 4TB 3.5-inch Drive
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-06
The ante has been upped again in the storage capaciousness department. Western Digital's HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division has produced the only 4TB,
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Violin Memory Snags Cool $50M in New VC Funding
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-02
Time to celebrate another Wall Street-type victory for the NAND flash storage array sector. Mountain View, Calif.-based Violin Memory, which makes new-generation solid-state memory
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Avere Rolls Out Edge Filer to Go with New NAS Architecture
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-03-30
They're doing some interesting things in new-generation storage IT in Pittsburgh. Noteworthy is Avere Systems, which on March 28 released a new network-attached storage
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