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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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Foremay Claims World's Smallest SSD on a Chip
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-25
Foremay, a 9-year-old storage company based in Pasadena, Calif., with offices in Norway, Korea, China and Taiwan, made some news March 24 with the announcement of its first disk-on-chip
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Nasuni Ensures Deleted Files in Cloud Storage Stay Deleted
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-22
When you store a file or any other type of data, you want to make sure it stays stored. Conversely, when you delete any type of data, you want to make sure it's
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New HP CEO Has Storage Top of Mind in Introductory Speech
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-16
Sudden thought during Hewlett-Packard's Summit event March 14 to announce new market strategy and introduce new CEO Leo Apotheker: The very first IT-specific feature he
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Green Grid Releases New Tools for Data Center Managers
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-04
The 4-year-old Green Grid, a consortium of data center-related technology companies, staged its annual tech forum in Santa Clara, Calif., this week. This progressive
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Is Google Crazy to Charge $4K a Year for 16TB in Its Cloud?
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-03-03
It was only a matter of time before Google expanded its online storage services. (See my eWEEK colleague Clint Boulton's news story here.)
What? You didn't know Google
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This Works Right into Their Hands, but That's Quite OK
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-02-25
Got a bit of sweet news this afternoon through the Twitter transom -- that DealMaker Media has included The Station in its favorite 20 IT bloggers list.
Yes, here's living
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Was 2010 the Last Really Good Year for NOR Flash?
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-02-23
That NAND flash sure is a popular piece of action, what with all those iPads, smartphones, Flip video cameras and 1,001 other connected pieces gobbling it all up like no one's
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Why SandForce Is Fast Moving Up the SSD Value Chain
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-02-15
Sold-state drive maker SandForce reported a milestone Feb. 14 in that it has shipped more than 1 million of its SF-1500 and SF-1200 SSD processors since they went into production
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