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    1. DataDirect Networks Builds Niche in Big Data

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      DataDirect Networks Builds Niche in Big Data
      If your company’s entire services are built on cloud storage, how do you accommodate growth in your business and the need to move and store massive volumes of data? That was the challenge facing YouSendIt, Inc., a fast-growing company that offers cloud-based services where users can send files, share folders and sign documents. The company recently investigated storage offerings that chose DataDirect Networks (DDN), which has built a niche handling large volumes of data. DataDirect Networks is the world’s largest privately-held data storage infrastructure provider. Its focus is on the requirements of today’s massive unstructured data generators, such as high performance computing; life science research; Web and cloud content; professional media; homeland security; and intelligence communities.
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    2. AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud

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      AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud
      In a long post on the Amazon Web Services blog Wednesday, Amazon launched the AWS Storage Gateway service, a tool for connecting on-premise software appliances with its cloud storage services, making its cloud products more accessible to users currently dealing entirely (or mostly) with on-premise IT. Amazon says the new AWS Storage Gateway service enables data stored in a customer’s data center to be backed up to Amazon’s S3 storage, as EBS snapshots, which can be treated as backups, and restored to the on-premise hardware when necessary. The stored files can also be accessed as Amazon EBS volumes, which means data can be mirrored between on-premise applications and those based on EC2.
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    3. CIOs come around to cloud storage

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      CIOs come around to cloud storage
      It is not surprising that Aaron Levie says CIOs are ready to sign off on big corporate cloud-storage deals. He is, after all, the co-founder and CEO of Box — a company staking its claim as an enterprise-grade cloud-storage service. More surprising is the fact that experts with no dog in this fight agree that even the biggest companies are ready to commit to cloud storage. They are late to the party. Consumers have already embraced the notion of cloud storage — whether it is Dropbox, which claims more than 45 million users; Apple’s iCloud; or a dozen other offerings.
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    4. Storing Data In The Cloud Raises Compliance Challenges

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      Storing Data In The Cloud Raises Compliance Challenges
      For the past few years, cloud-based storage has oscillated somewhere between a replacement strategy for existing back-up storage solutions (i.e. tape) and a typically inexpensive but complex real-time storage solution for online web properties and enterprises. Much like the first waves of virtualization, many organizations are struggling to figure out where cloud storage fits within their existing IT infrastructure. Unlike basic server virtualization, and possibly more critical however, is the determination of if and when cloud storage is even legal. Cloud storage carries with it an extra layer of complexity: compliance.
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    5. Federating Storage Clouds To Create New Services and Opportunities

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      Federating Storage Clouds To Create New Services and Opportunities
      Digital storage in remote data centers has been made possible by the confluence of a number of software and infrastructure management technologies.  These technologies  have increased the effectiveness and lowered the overall costs of digital storage in the cloud.  Software technologies that have created the rapid increase in cloud storage and services include virtualization where real physical resources can be subdivided into a much larger number of virtual devices which can be rapidly deployed as needed to support many more clients.  This has resulted in higher utilization of these resources, including digital storage. 
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    6. Will Big Data Clog Networks With Big Traffic?

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      Will Big Data Clog Networks With Big Traffic?
      Big Data, housed in new and disruptive technologies, is expected to account for more than 50 percent of the world’s data in the next five years, according to a a new study. While it offers huge and untapped value, the inevitable result is stress and strain on the world’s Interent infrastructure as companies seek to manage this explosion of information. The new study, released jointly by Internet Research Group and Infineta Systems, a provider of WAN optimization systems, examines how big data is affecting enterprise WAN (Wide Area Network) throughout the country. Big Data – which is defined as datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, store, manage and analyze – is most often found in petabyte to exabyte size, and is unstructured, distributed and in flat schemas.
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    7. Storage, Virtualization and Enhancing the Cloud

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      Storage, Virtualization and Enhancing the Cloud
      The subject matter experts at Dell present “The cloud awaits: Storage for the growing virtualized infrastructure.” This technical whitepaper explains the benefits behind the integration of Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs and VMware® vSphere™ virtualization software. Virtualization has been the trend in data center evolution and the benefits are well documented from both a cost and infrastructure perspective. The Cloud is next showing an even greater promise in terms of ROI. In between these data center strategies lies the need for a proven storage solution. The authors passionately advocate and clearly explain how Dell and VMware provide the optimal combination for the data center. This marriage is successful because the collaboration, between the two industry leaders, makes for an effective integration allowing for a less challenging expansion of the virtualized footprint.
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    8. Network Storage Servers For SMBs From WD

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      Network Storage Servers For SMBs From WD
      The pre-configured 4TB-8TB DX4000 Sentinel can connect to public clouds or provide a local private cloud Digital storage specialist Western Digital announced the release of the WD Sentinel DX4000, a network storage server aimed at small and midsized businesses. The DX4000 includes the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system software and the Intel D525 Dual Core Atom CPU. The DX4000 offers centralised shared storage and automatic server-based backup and restore for up to 25 devices (PC and Mac) in the network, as well as data protection with built-in hardware and software redundancy for all of the connected devices in the network.
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    12. Cloud Demands to Drive Growth for Range of Storage Products IDC Study

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      Cloud Demands to Drive Growth for Range of Storage Products IDC Study
      October 20, 2011 -- IT industry research firm International Data Corporation announced on Thursday it has released a new report that shows that cloud computing will significantly drive new IT spending over the next five years as public cloud service providers and the adopters of private cloud environments invest in the supporting infrastructure.
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    13. Citrix Systems Acquires Cloud Data Storage Firm ShareFile

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      Citrix Systems Acquires Cloud Data Storage Firm ShareFile
      October 13, 2011 -- Software developer Citrix Systems announced on Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of cloud-based data storage provider ShareFile. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to the press release, ShareFile provides secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration to businesses of all sizes. 
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    14. Open Source Leader Red Hat to Acquire Gluster

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      Open Source Leader Red Hat to Acquire Gluster
      Red Hat (RHT), provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced it will pay $136 million in cash to acquire Gluster, Inc., a privately-held provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for standardizing the management of unstructured data. Founded six years ago, Gluster simplified storage using open source software and commodity hardware. Clients such as Pandora, Box.net and Samsung use Gluster to manage large volumes of data in storage. Gluster’s main product is GlusterFS, a software-only, scale-out storage system. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed and globally-accessible storage pool without compromising on cost, performance and manageability.
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    17. In the Pipeline: A Tidal Wave of Data

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      In the Pipeline: A Tidal Wave of Data
      If there’s one takeaway from the many insightful discussions at last week’s O’Reilly Strata Summit, it is this: Our society is generating an ever-growing ocean of data, and developers are building tons of new applications to extract value from this data. It’s a trend that crosses the spectrum, with examples in finance, retail, government, entertainment, journalism and the non-profit sector. Each panel reinforced a key point for the data center industry: all this data needs a place to live. Big data will require storage devices to house it. It will require servers to power the applications that will make sense of it. In many cases, that data analysis will require supercomputers or high-performance computing clusters. Where Will All This Data Live? That all adds up to a bullish case for the data center industry, and a huge opportunity for the growing ecosystem of companies specializing in ...
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    18. EMC Opens 450000 Square Foot Data Center in North Carolina

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      EMC Opens 450000 Square Foot Data Center in North Carolina
      September 19, 2011 -- - Data center storage and recovery solutions provider EMC announced last week it has opened a new 450,000 square foot data center in Durham, North Carolina. Dubbed the Center of Excellence, the facility is EMC's seventh data center and its first in the US, joining its other six facilities in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.
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    22. Bits Blog: Why Flash Is the Future of Storage in Data Centers

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      Bits Blog: Why Flash Is the Future of Storage in Data Centers
      Flash memory has taken over the world of consumer computing as the storage technology used in iPods, iPads, smartphones and digital cameras. It is light, fast, energy-efficient and increasingly inexpensive when used in the comparatively small doses required by consumers. Flash had made inroads in data-center computing, but mainly for specialized applications and in hybrid systems. What has held up the advance of flash for industrial-strength computing has been price. It has traditionally been 5 to 10 times more expensive to store a comparable chunk of data on flash than on hard disks. But the cost handicap is eroding. And a start-up, Pure Storage, that is opening its business on Tuesday, makes a strong claim for the changing economics of flash. It asserts that its flash-and-software technology can store data for less than the cost of hard-disk storage. In addition, data access and retrieval is 10 times faster, and its ...
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    23. Facebook Engineer: Cut Power by Slowing Hard Drives

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      Facebook Engineer: Cut Power by Slowing Hard Drives
      The latest idea from Facebook on how to revolutionize the data center is elegant in its simplicity: Put a switch on hard-disk drives that slows their speed when their data is no longer hot. I’m not aware of any vendor actually doing this, which makes me wonder if Facebook will just take up the cause itself. More News From GigaOm Facebook Engineer: Cut Power by Slowing Hard Drives YouTube Hangouts: Google+’s Secret Weapon Against Facebook Early October iPhone 5 Release Date Gets More Support Foursquare Finds Opportunities in the Past Electric Car Maker Fisker Valued at $2.2B? Writing on the Open Compute blog, Facebook Engineer Eran Tal makes an astute observation. Essentially, he says, HDDs must remaining spinning even when their data is no longer accessed often because should someone need something, the 30 seconds it might take for disk to resume spinning might seem like an ...
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