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• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

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

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

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Shades of Mission Impossible.

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

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

  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.

• Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 May, 2012 02:59

  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.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

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

• Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework

  By Jon Gold | 04 May, 2012 06:38

  The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system.

• Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information

  By Lucas Mearian | 04 May, 2012 05:14

  The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted.

• Google Drive begs the question: Who owns your data in the Cloud?

  By John Brandon | 03 May, 2012 04:47

  Like any new technology, data storage in the cloud has gone through a maturation period. Employees started out, way back in 2007, moving a few files over to Dropbox.com. Then, IT started experimenting with cloud storage through more robust services like Rackspace Cloud Files. Now, executives are starting to wonder if all enterprise storage can be hosted in the cloud, and not in an on-premise data center.

• Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 May, 2012 20:08

  Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing pressure as data centers move toward Ethernet for all data network traffic and SAS for hardware interconnects.

• Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch Big Data

  By Thor Olavsrud | 02 May, 2012 06:55

  Few companies in the world have access to datasets as large as Google does, and, unsurprisingly, Google is one of the companies at the forefront of Big Data analytics. Now Google plans to share the wealth by giving others access to its data crunching infrastructure with its new Google BigQuery Service.

• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2012 19:53

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• DropBox adds photo auto-upload feature for cameras, smartphones

  By Lucas Mearian | 28 April, 2012 05:20

  On the heels of this week's Google Drive announcement, cloudstorage provider DropBox said it has expanded its automated photo and video upload service to include just about any device, including cameras.

• Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way

  By Michael Kan | 27 April, 2012 23:30

  Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its research and development spending in order to bring "disruptive" technologies that will alter the market landscape.

• Privacy advocates slam Google Drive's privacy policies

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 April, 2012 23:29

  Privacy advocates voiced strong concerns today over how data stored on Google Drive may be used during and after customers are actively engaged in using the cloud service.

• Free Tools to Wipe Your Drives Securely

  By Alex Wawro | 26 April, 2012 23:29

  Your PC's hard drive is packed with your personal data. So when you want to get rid of your system or drive, you should permanently erase your storage device drives before you get rid of them. If your drives are encrypted and you trust the encryption protocol (full disk encryption is pretty safe), all you have to do is delete your encryption keys. If you want to safeguard your privacy further--and prevent data theft down the road--here are a few cheap and simple tools designed to wipe your hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive thoroughly before you dispose of it.