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Seagate Gives Android Devices 500GB of Wireless Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-08-01
Back from vacation and we're seeing plenty of news in storage, despite the usual mid-summer business lull.
For example, Seagate chose Aug. 1 to open new accessibility for
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Teradata Apparently Getting Under Oracle's Thick Skin
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-21
Ever heard of Oracle getting aggressive against competitors by publishing surprising claims in major international newspaper ads? Nah, can't be possible. (Right.)
Well, it's
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Gluster Seeking Beta Testers for Storage File System v3.3
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-20
Gluster, one of the more creatively named IT companies here in the Valley of Silicon, issued a beta release of open-source GlusterFS 3.3 on July 20.
This newest version of
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Is Cloud Storage Over-the-Top Too Expensive?
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-18
Is cloud storage, which appears to be a bargain off the top, overly expensive when compared to buying your own drive and keeping everything on your desk? It certainly looks that way.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Unveils Alternative to Hadoop
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-15
Valuable "big data" open-source software from an unexpected place is our topic for today.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which has been using its home-developed, large-scale
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Nimble Storage Lands $25M Series D, and for Good Reason
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-07-14
Interesting bit of storage industry investment news on July 14, Bastille Day. Not that there's any connection with the French holiday, but year-old Nimble Storage revealed that
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Nerds on Site Use iPads to Admin KineticD Cloud Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-06-20
We at The Station enjoy discovering good and creative company names. It's perfectly OK, of course, to have your company named for what it does; International Business
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Sir Paul to Rock 'n' Roll for HP Discover Conference
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-06-02
Sir Paul McCartney, who's way past 64 (hard to believe he'll be 69 on June 18), is really getting into IT lately.
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Newcomer Symform Challenges on Pricing, Unused Capacity
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-05-18
There's so much competition in online enterprise storage now that price wars are coming to the fore. But hey, that's capitalism -- you can spend your capital anywhere you
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EMC, NetApp in 'Coopetitive Collusion' with Hadoop News
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-05-10
LAS VEGAS -- It's uncanny how competing companies seem to know all about each other's product launches, despite the cloaks of supposed secrecy under which they try to hide.
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Arkeia Explains Its Take on 'Source-Side Deduplication'
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-05-03
San Diego, Calif.-based backup/disaster recovery appliance maker Arkeia Software on May 2 released a simple upgrade to provide what it calls "source-side Progressive
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Former Data Domain CEO Takes Over at Service-now.com
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-04-27
Frank Slootman, who as CEO took Data Domain public in 2007 and then enjoyed a bidding war between EMC and NetApp over the company in 2009, has moved on to new challenges.
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Digital Publishing on iPad? There's Now an App for That
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-04-14
People are using Apple iPads, Samsung Galaxys, HP Slates and Motorola Xoom tablet PCs for anything and everything. If you can get used to the smaller keys and flat surface for
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'World Backup Day' Reminds Us to Back Up Our PC Worlds
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-31
Bet you didn't know that today, March 31, is World Backup Day. There are those who believe this should not only be a national holiday, but an international holiday.
If a
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SugarSync Adds More Functionality to Cloud Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-29
SugarSync, which operates a popular file sync, backup and file-sharing service, made some news this week.
In case you haven't heard of it, SugarSync synchronizes files and
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