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Disk Storage Systems Market Surges, Report Finds
Top vendors benefited from impressive growth in the disk storage systems market, with EMC maintaining its top position in the external disk storage systems market. Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 17.1 percent, totaling $5.0 billion, in the first quarter of 2010 (1Q10), according to a report from the International…
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What To Ask Before You Buy Storage
What To Ask Before You Buy Storage With the volume of data storage predicted to double every 18 months, the question isn’t are you going to sell more storage, but whose? Here’s what your customers need to know before they decide, according to Peter Fuller, Co-Founder and VP of Business Development from
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IBM Adds Storage, Server Solutions To Express Lineup
Storage and servers have been good to IBM, with a large helping hand from Big Blue’s channel, and the company intends to continue that momentum with two new solutions configured for the channel. Shipping on June 15, the DS3500 Express doubles the capacity and performance of any previous storage product in the DS3000 family and…
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Seagate Laptop Hard Drive Called Fastest Ever
Seagate pulled no punches on May 24, introducing a spinning-disk/solid-state hybrid drive that it boldly described as the “world’s fastest drive for laptops.” The Momentus XT, which can hold up to 500GB of capacity in a 7200-rpm package, will become available for the first time as an upgrade in Asus laptops. The OEM pricing is…
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Rebit Offers Automated NAS Backup Solution for SMBs
Rebit, which has created a foothold in the desktop disk backup business by building single-purpose plug-and-play machines that even a computer novice can use, is now expanding into the network-attached storage (NAS) space for small-office and single users. The Longmont, Colo.-based storage hardware and software maker on May 19 unveiled NetSmart, fully automatic storageware that…
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Amazon S3 Offers Value Option for Online Backup
Amazon Web Services, perhaps feeling pressure from a spate of competing services from conventional storage companies as well as startups, came out May 19 with what amounts to a price cut option for its Simple Storage Service cloud backup service. Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is designed to store noncritical, reproducible data and files at…
