Toshiba tees off 2013 with self-encrypting drives
The drives have self-encrypting and cryptographic erase features for security-conscious enterprise users and are available other as SSDs and HDDs
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Lenovo and EMC unwrap joint venture, eye SME storage
Lenovo and EMC have celebrated the new year by taking the wrapping off their first joint venture, LenovoEMC Ltd, which will sell co-branded NAS gear and give EMC a way into the Chinese market.
Rackspace adds storage features to its OpenStack distribution
The updates to Rackspace’s distribution of the open source cloud management system OpenStack brings features from the latest distribution of the software to the hoster's supported distribution.
Hitachi reveals way of storing information for millions of years
The ultra long-term storage technology uses a laser to encode data into a piece of quartz glass that can be read back by an optical microscope, and could last hundreds of millions of years, though it can't store a lot of information.
IBM's TMS buy signals it's heading for a divorce from Fusion-io
IBM's decision to acquire flash memory hardware specialist Texas Memory Systems belies a fear of growth of flash partner Fusion-io's software portfolio
Amazon brings hefty HPC gear to Irish datacentre
Amazon has given European businesses that deal with complex datasets a boost by bringing its largest HPC instance to its Irish datacentre.The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.
Intel names Centerton successor: Avoton
The successor to Intel's low-power Atom-based Centerton processor will be named Avoton.The codename will be revealed publicly on Wednesday, said Jason Waxman, head of cloud infrastructure for Intel.
Intel: Home-grown chip strategy could make China miss out
Intel has said China's attempts to develop its own processor technologies could mean it cuts itself off from gaining access to the best technology around.Intel's Rajeeb Hazra has questioned China's determination to develop its own processor technologies.
AWS EC2 instances hit by datacentre power loss
Amazon's North Virginia region is experiencing problems, with problems occurring in the cloud's Elastic Compute, Relational Database Service and Elastic Beanstalk technologies.Problems began at 8.
Dell pushes Fluid File System with updated NAS boxes
Dell has updated its storage portfolio to include support for its Fluid File System.By bringing the Fluid File System to the Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS on Tuesday, the company has given enterprise users the ability to manage block and file storage via the same system across all three of its key storage lines — Compellent, EqualLogic and PowerVault.