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Toshiba Announces Security Feature for Self-Encrypting Hard Drives
Electronics company Toshiba announced a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host. The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models are designed to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to configure different data invalidation options that align with various end-user scenarios. Designed to address the increasing need…
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Dell Research Center Targets Cloud, Storage
(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) plans to open its first research center in California’s Silicon Valley this year to focus on cloud computing, storage and networking technology, with hopes of hiring directly from the tech-focused region. The world’s No. 2 PC maker said Tuesday that the new site will help it consolidate much of its…
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Cloud Storage: Is a Standard Needed?
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — To the surprise of virtually no one who works in or follows the enterprise IT world, a new survey reported that cloud computing services and system building continue to become more prominent in both augmenting and replacing older data center equipment. In addition, the research indicated that the Storage Networking Industry…
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EMC Mozy Intros Cloud Storage App for iPhone, iPad
If consumer software makers don’t know this by now, they must be living in some other world. It’s now mandatory to make your application work on devices other than notebook and desktop PCs. They had better be optimizing their handiwork for smartphones, connected music players and tablets, or they’ll be missing the train. Cloud storage…
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Dell’s Energy Efficient PowerEdge C5000 Servers
Designed to help IT hosting and Web 2.0 companies achieve greater efficiencies in their data centers, technology giant Dell introduced its third generation of microservers, the PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220, designed to meet the requirements of dedicated and virtualized IT hosting, Web 2.0 and cloud builder environments. The series of…
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DataCore Adds NAS Performance Acceleration, File Sharing Support to SANsymphony-V Storage Platform
Storage virtualization software specialist DataCore Software announced it has integrated Network Attached Storage (NAS) performance acceleration and high-availability file sharing support for its SANsymphony-V platform, making it possible to employ the NAS services built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform in those environments. The integrated combination is designed to speed up performance and…