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HP Unveils Ultra-thin, Touch-enabled Convertible Tablet and Notebook PCs for Small and Midsize Businesses
Fujitsu and Japan Atomic Energy Agency Unveil Fastest Supercomputer
Cloud Security Alliance and HP Identify Top Cloud Security Threats in New Research Report
IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds
Expect More with the Fujitsu LifeBook LH700 and LifeBook LH530
Seagate To Participate In Morgan Stanley Technology, Media And Telecom Conference 2010
Seagate To Participate In Upcoming Investor Conference
RSA Global Survey Reveals Confidence in Social Networking Security Shaken as Online Crime Rises
WD® INTRODUCES NEW MY PASSPORT™ STUDIO™ PORTABLE DRIVES, DELIVERING SUPER-FAST, GO-ANYWHERE PERFORMANCE FOR MAC® COMPUTERS
Spare Backup needs spare change
Sun, Fujitsu Speed Sparc Server
Via Builds Low-power Server Based on Laptop Chips
Cleversafe beats RAID/replication scale trap
Patterned storage media almost sewn up
Dell bulks up on EMC products
EMC Expands RSA Consulting Services
Intel to Release Westmere Server Chips in Three Months
IBM simplifying its storage range
Quantum spruces up StorNext filesystem
Annual Compensation of WD's Executives
Holographic Storage, Phase-Change Memory Coming Soon
SSDs and the Reliability Factor
Judge Overturns $388 Million Verdict Against Microsoft
HP Uses Home Server to Power Storage for Small Biz
$350 Billion May Be Needed to Extend Broadband
Toshiba Joins the Windows 7 Notebook Tsunami
Another One in USB3.0 External HDD: Buffalo
Hard-drive makers see big run-ups on PC recovery hopes
IDF: Intel shows PCI-Express SSD solution reaching 1 million IOPS
Fujitsu and Fuji Electric Systems Develop Technologies for Designing Eco-Friendly Datacenters
LSI Enhances Flagship Engenio 7900 Storage System
Xyratex Rallies as FY Q3 EPS Blows Away Estimates
LSI Introduces Industry’s First 40nm Serial PHY for Notebook, Desktop and Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
H-P Plans to Fuse Printer, PC Units
IBM Announces Sweeping Initiative to Address Major Shift in The Flow of World's Data
OWC preps 1TB Mercury On-the-Go Pro drives
Notebook Vendors Conservative About Netbook Shipments in 2010
STEC and LSI Collaborate to Add Enterprise Solid-State Drive Technology to Flagship Engenio 7900 Storage System
Dataram makes SAN flash cache sandwich
Toshiba introduces 2.5in 500GB, 7,200rpm hard drive
Windows 7 May Push Tablet PCs
Flash Reality Sinks in at Diskcon
Verizon adds internet security, online file storage for Mac
MAID: Where's the love?
Gartner: PC sales to decline 2% – not 6% – in 2009
Seagate May Keep Riding a Wave
RSA Adaptive Authentication and Data Loss Prevention Solutions Awarded Common Criteria Certification
Lawson, Inc. Chooses EMC Data Domain Deduplication Storage for Efficient Data Center Backup and Recovery

IBM wins benchmark crown with SSD power
Fujitsu Selected as Vendor for Development of NTT DOCOMO's LTE Mobile Data Communications Terminal
TDK shows prototype of next-generation HDD read/write heads using lasers
Fujitsu Launches First Multi-Touch Tablets for LifeBook Series - LifeBook T4410, T4310 and LifeBook T5010
WD® to Relocate Headquarters to Irvine, Calif.
IBM Announces New Managed Video Communications Solution
Holographic storage: still a long way to go
SSD news from Super Talent: new drives up to 512GB
PQI USB Flash Drive and Windows 7 ~ Better Accessibility and Protection Guarantee
FastMac External USB 2.0 Optical Drive
Tosh preps enterprise SSD push
Reldata goes mix and match with refreshed storage box
EMC outs Atmos compute cloud
Fujitsu and Toshiba Complete HDD Business Transfer
Storage-in-a-can vendor ditches CEO
New WD® My Passport™ Elite™ Drives Provide Convenience and Style for Consumers On-The-Go
WD® Introduces High-Performance My Book® Studio™ External Hard Drives with Innovative E-Label Display
MySpace replaces disks with flash
Avere Systems shows first benchmarks
Disk Drives: Brean Murray Launches STX, WDC With Buy Ratings
TDK Develops 320GB Optical Disc
LSI Corporation to Host Webcast on Third Quarter 2009 Results
Fujitsu Enhances ETERNUS DX60/DX80 Connectivity and Performance
NEC Reaches out With ISCSI Midrange Storage
Seagate Extends Its Family Of Storage Solutions For Small Business With BlackArmor NAS 110 Network Storage Server
HDS has archive head in the clouds
Iomega Announces Next Generation "Green" Desktop Network Storage Appliance with Powerful Enterprise and Consumer Features
Microsoft predicts cloud computing will burst with growth, opportunity
Intel Kicks Off Earnings Season In Style
WD® Introduces New My Book® Elite™ External Hard Drives with Customizable E-Label
Manufacturing trending away from China
Iomega Announces Microsoft and Citrix Certifications for Flagship Network Storage Products.
Hitachi GST Hosts Official Opening Of New Substrate Manufacturing Facility In Malaysia
WD® Unveils WD TV™ Live HD Media Player with Network Capability and Enhanced User Experience
Teradata unveils SSD Blurr appliance
Specs for budget version of Intel X25 SSD (X-25X) leaked
EMC Upgrades Data Domain Deduplication Storage Systems
Fujitsu Launches LifeBook Notebooks and Multi Touch Tablets That Enhance the Windows 7 Experience
Adaptec MaxIQTM Accelerates Web Server Performance By Up to 10x
MCE 8X Blu-ray Disc External Recordable Drive
Micron's new flash dies live longer
Amazon provisioning 8 petabytes of storage per day
PQI 2.5” H560 ~ Ultra Shock Proof Portable Hard Drive!
Seagate To Showcase New Generation Of Retail Products, Storage Solutions For Small Business And World's Fastest Hard Drive At GITEX 2009 In Dubai

IBM Announces New Software for Managing Data Centers
Hitachi's New HDDs A Blazing 15,000 RPM Fast
Acer boots Dell into third place in global PC league
Upgrading a MacBook Pro's Hard Drive
WD to sink teeth into enterprise drive market
Solid Execution Makes Western Digital a Compelling Stock
IBM Expands Enterprise Storage Offerings With Introduction Of New High-End Storage Array
Qnap launches updated 4-drive rackmount NAS
3PAR developing united federation of clusters
EMC Teams With Intel for Power-efficient Cloud Storage
G-Technology Announces Support for Hitachi 2TB Hard Drives
Increasing Seagate's Fair Value
Fujitsu Launches New Desktop Managed Services
HotHardware shows first benchmarks for Fusion-IO drive
Solid-State Storage Appliances Make Good Business Sense
Toshiba to revise its first-half net profit forecast upward
Intel Pulls Firmware for SSDs Just a Day After Release
Hitachi facility to operate at full capacity by early 2010
Adaptec RAID Controllers Selected to Power Japan's Largest Server Farm and Fastest PCs
Fujitsu Enhances Server Management Software for Multi-vendor, Multi-platform Environments
AMEX Digital puts out Mac mini Blu-ray upgrade
Sony Selects SanDisk's pSSD Gen2 SSD for VAIO X Ultraportable
IBM uses mirrors to pretty up XIV arrays

IBM parks beta cloud on development and test servers
WD® Enters Traditional Enterprise HDD Market with First SAS Product
G-Technology By Hitachi Doubles Capacity Across 3.5-inch Product Line

Samsung to Collaborate with Microsoft on Green IT Technology
Acadia Gets Cloud-computing Venture Rolling in Asia
Cisco and EMC, Together with VMware, Form Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures
Rackspace's Jungle Disk preps cloud data backup Server Edition
Flash Memory Not Ready to Replace Hard Drives in Most Enterprise Applications
Toshiba eyes EMEA’s storage potential
EMC Offers Portfolio of New Products and Services Designed to Help Enhance Performance, Security and Management of VMware View™ Deployments
EMC Drives More Efficiency Around New Microsoft Platforms
China Data Show Economic Rebound Picking Up Steam
PMR heads for areal density limit
New IBM Software Uses Sensors to Speed the Movement of Shipping Containers
IBM To Build Green Data Centre For Slovak Telekom
LSI 6Gb/s SAS MegaRAID Products Enable New Levels of RAID Performance for IBM System x Servers
Fujitsu Completes Global ETERNUS DX Disk Storage Lineup with Mid-Range and Enterprise Systems
Samsung Launches Open Mobile Platform: Samsung Bada - The Next Wave Of The Mobile Industry
HP Helps Businesses Protect Valuable PC and Notebook Information with New Data Recovery Solution
Fusion-io whips out fast gov-grade ioDrive
Isilon doubles capacity
EMC Brings Avamar Backup to PCs, Macs
IBM Honored in 2009 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Drobo restrings boxes to double-up product range
Quantum's small tape libraries get big
Japan May Put Brakes on Fastest-supercomputer Project
Hitachi Debuts New 2TB Simpledrive
HP takes one in the servers
HP Unveils New Scale-out Servers
Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
Intel CFO Smith Says on Track to Meet Outlook, PC Spending to Rebound in Next 18 Months
HP Enables University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to Advance Research and Drive Innovation
Seagate Introduces New Additions To Its BlackArmor Family Of External Storage Solutions For Small Business
LSI High-Performance Storage Featured in U.S. Department of Energy Research Center’s New Cray Supercomputer
PQI Intelligent Drive U825 ~ Limited Edition for the Festive Season
Fi-Tek Selects RSA to Help Meet Multi-Factor Authentication Compliance Requirements
Chip sales soared in October
SSD Performance: Be Careful Before You Buy
Showa Denko Gains On Report Will Up Production
Sun's Open Storage roadmap revealed
Got Extra USB Drives? Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use
Hoya To Build $145 million Glass Hard Disk Factory
Toshiba plans new enterprise: High capacity 3.5-inch HDDs
Report: Apple accused of NAND price manipulation
SD cards to get 300MB/s bus
PC shipments to reach 336.6 million units in 2010
New benchmarks Underline Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S5 Leadership as Best-Performing 8-Core, 2-Socket System for Virtualized Environments
Hitachi Laboratory Equipment Donation Extends Nationwide
Fujitsu Unveils Smallest Multi-Touch Handheld PC with LifeBook UH900
Seagate to Launch Slimmer Laptop Hard Disk at CES
Secure-24 Fuels Business Growth with EMC Information Infrastructure
Fujitsu Unveils New World Record Result on SAP® Business Intelligence-Data Mart Standard Application Benchmark
FAST takes its sweet time
IDC numbers show Dell server storage booming
Locust Storage unveils Ethernet-powered disk array
Why is USB 3 so slow?
IBM Stays Tops as Server Market Stabilizes, Gartner Says
Despite the Cost, SSDs Are a Great Value
EMC FAST Technology Represents New Era in Storage and Information Management
Seagate's Pulsar Drives Bring SSD to Enterprise Primetime
EMC Makes Solid State Drives More Efficient
Fujitsu Expands Green IT Initiative Globally
LSI and Wichita State University Launch Center for Storage Networking Research
HP Aims at Flexible, Unified Storage
Seagate Momentus Thin Paves the Way For Thinner Notebooks
EMC Announces Retrospect 7.7 for Windows
Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar
Toshiba doubles NAND flash size
Exchange 2010 dumps single instance storage
Western Digital gears up for mighty formatting
Dell Aims Management Software, 10G Ethernet at Data Centers
Western Digital’s new advanced formatting gives hard drives up to eleven percent more space
EMC Sets New Standard for Data Protection Management Analysis and Reporting
Why Are SSDs Still So Expensive?
Seagate Unveils World's Thinnest 2.5-Inch Hard Drive For Slim Laptop Computers
LaCie pumps more data down USB 3 link
Adaptec - the eternal wannabe
Italian project examines data centre energy use
Do consumers need enterprise-class drives?
Researchers promise faster hard drives
HDD supply may be less than demand in 2010
HP Accelerates Cloud Computing Adoption for Businesses and Service Providers
Fujitsu a winner at Datacentre Leaders Awards 2009
Designed to Impress – The Made-in-Japan LifeBook MH380 Mini-Notebook
Fujitsu Introduces Stylish, Highly Mobile Mini-Notebook With Latest Processor Technology From Intel
PQI Announces USB3.0 Devices ~ 2.5” Portable HDD H566 and SSD S533
Data Robotics CEO change no big deal
HP Announces Enhancements to NonStop Servers
WD AND NEC ELECTRONICS COLLABORATE TO PROMOTE SUPERSPEED USB 3.0 STANDARD WITH NEW STORAGE INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY

Fujitsu Launches Cloud-based Services to Support End-User ICT
New EMC Symmetrix V-Max Capabilities Deliver Increased Cost Savings and Flexibility for Virtualized Data Centers
The Avatar storage effect
Micron's near billion dollar turnaround
Seagate Super Speeds Transfer Rates With USB 3.0 External Portable Hard Drive
10 Big Cloud Trends for 2010
Starting positions for next decade's external storage race
HDS hails new high-end storage
Speculation takes flight over 5th generation Velociraptor
Seagate may face noise reduction patent payout
Fujitsu Named 2010 Best Channel Vendor by Business Solutions Magazine Two Years in a Row
The Fujitsu USB 3.0-SATA Bridge IC Named Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine
EMC to Acquire Archer Technologies, Leading Provider of IT Governance Risk and Compliance Software
Enterprise data storage outlook 2010: industry predictions for storage pros
WD® INTRODUCES ITS FASTEST EVER MY BOOK® EXTERNAL DRIVE
Iomega, World's Leader in Multimedia Players, Announces New Expanded ScreenPlay HD Media Player Product Line
Seagate foresees monster 2011
Compellent extends tiering to SAS
2 TB Hard Disk Drives: Now at 7,200 RPM
Iomega Introduces Revolutionary v.Clone Technology: Lets You Take Your PC Virtually Anywhere
The Fujitsu USB 3.0-SATA Bridge IC Earns USB-IF Compliance Certification for SuperSpeed USB
Fujitsu Debuts New PRIMERGY Mono-Socket Servers
Fujitsu Introduces World's Most Compact Integrated DQPSK Receiver for 40Gbps Optical Networks
Fujitsu Launches Powerful New Notebooks, PCs and Workstations
W3C Posts Draft Standard for Local Database Storage
Slots That Support SDXC Flash Storage Reaching Devices
WD accused of encryption IP filch
EMC Documentum is Named a Leader in Enterprise Content Management by Independent Research Firm
LSI to Host Analyst Day on March 17
EMC Doubles Clariion, Celerra Density with 2TB SATA Drives
Asia PC shipments to climb 16 pct in 2010 – IDC
IBM Accelerates Cloud Computing With LotusLive
Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems Enhance SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server
EMC Shrinks Midrange Storage Delivering Twice the Capacity in Half the Floor Space to Optimize Resources in Physical Data Centers
Intel to Release Westmere Server Chips in Three Months
Storage Fusion on plumping up drive ahead of sale
Plextor plunges into SSD pool
EMC rains on Pillar's parade
BakBone combines backup and replication
Fujitsu Releases Enhanced Product-Data Management System Solution
LSI and Seagate Collaborate to Enter PCI Express-Based Enterprise Solid-State Storage Market Segment
HP Strengthens Security Capabilities to Help Customers Protect Data and Combat Business Threats
Top Analyst Firm Recognizes EMC with Positive Rating in MarketScope Report for E-Discovery
Made in IBM Labs: IBM Research Sets New Record in Magnetic Tape Data Density
EMC blows CIFS benchmark away
Fujitsu Releases Symfoware Server V10
Toshiba looks ahead, sees a 14TB disk
IBM Unveils New POWER7 Systems To Manage Increasingly Data-Intensive Services
HP Helps Customers Prepare for Advances in Mission-critical Computing
Toshiba Develops SRAM Circuit Technique that Secures Low Voltage Operation of System LSI
Fujitsu Releases Solutions for Data Warehousing on Microsoft® SQL Server®
Fujitsu and Symantec to Expand Global Strategic Partnership
£60 Million Investment Announced By Seagate
Intel and Micron Double Flash Storage Capacity With 25-Nanometer NAND
Intel Ships Next-generation Itanium Chip
HP Cuts Containerized Data Center Down to Size
Intel and Micron get flash process lead
Fujitsu on brink of Quantum fusion breakthrough
IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers
Cisco's Chambers Sees Economy on the Mend
Disk capacity growth rate slowing
Fujitsu and Symantec tie-up storage bundling deal

HP turns MDS into new small EVA array
Is NAND flash about to hit a dead end?
HP Unveils Service for Design of Scalable, Flexible Cloud-based Infrastructures
Seagate® Ships World's Highest-Capacity, Most Reliable Small Form Factor Enterprise Drive: The Savvio® 10K.4 Hard Drive
EMC Enhances Atmos to Accelerate Cloud Adoption
LSI to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
Fujitsu’s New ESPRIMO Mini PCs are Small, Quiet and Efficient
EMC's Atmos Gains More Efficient Data Protection
WD speeds up a Caviar Black interface
Firm punts USB 3 SSD
HDD suppliers bound for choppy waters
Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY Server Sets Ground-Breaking SPECpower Benchmark
Seagate serves up 600GB Savvio 10K
Seagate Ships Industry's First 2TB 6Gb/s SAS Enterprise Drive
IBM Details Virtualization, Integrated Service Management Strategy
Fujitsu Delivers Cloud Services Enhancing Business ICT Operations
Comcast Launches Secure Backup & Share Online Storage Solution for Its Internet Customers
Adaptec Data Conditioning Platform Products on Display at CeBIT 2010
HP Expands Global Research and Development Presence with New Lab Facility in Singapore
The Big 3 Cloud Computing Mistakes to Avoid
Cisco-HP Split May Not Be Too Painful for Customers
NetApp says tiering is dying
Double-Take disaster recovery takes to the clouds
SanDisk and Seagate shipping big ones