Data Storage
Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie
IBM enters Guinness Book with world's smallest stop-motion movie made with atoms.
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Verizon rolls out mostly pointless cloud-storage service
Verizon Wireless has announced a new cloud-storage service to compete with Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive, but it's not really clear why anyone would use it in place of those services.
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10gen expands MongoDB with storage service
Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.
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Toshiba USB portable hard drive is also online file server
Toshiba is set to launch a portable USB hard drive that comes with PC or Mac software that can turn it into an Internet-accessible file server.
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21 tips for supercharging your cloud storage
Cloud storage isn't just for files and photos. With the right tools and services, you can do much more: organize data, or automate uploads and downloads. Synchronize, of course. Score extra space without paying an extra cent. Run a basic Web site from a cloud service, manage media, or even fax.
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Box sets its sights on healthcare customers
Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that simplify content collaboration.
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EMC storage business grows, profit shrinks
EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6% to $5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1% year-over year to $580 million as costs rose.
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National Digital Public Library launches
The new National Digital Public Library will initially contain 2.4 million digital records, including historical images, video and audio that had previously been siloed in public and private institutions.
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Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells
Harvards Clean Energy Project is conducting a study on millions of potential chemical structures and has identified next-generation organic solar cell material.
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Wi-Fi hard drive showdown: Corsair Voyager vs. Seagate Wireless Plus
What could be better than a portable hard drive? A battery-powered portable hard drive that provides its own Wi-Fi hotspot, of course. Corsair's Voyager Air and Seagate's Wireless Plus command hefty price premiums compared to more ordinary drives, but they are also extremely convenient.
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Boost your iPad's storage with Seagate Wireless Plus
I love my iPad, but I made the mistake of buying a 16GB model--that's not enough storage for all my apps, home videos, movies, TV shows, photos, and documents. I can rely on cloud storage, but since my iPad is Wi-Fi only, I like having extra local storage. I've been using a Kensington Wi-Drive, but it has its limitations.
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Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014
Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014, the standards-setting organization said on Thursday.
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Clearing up Microsoft SkyDrive Pro confusion
Microsoft's SkyDrive service has gained a lot of traction over the past couple of years, given that it works well across numerous platforms (including Gmail and Xbox 360) and is easy to use. With Office 2013 and Office 365, Microsoft introduced a SkyDrive Pro service that is oriented toward businesses and enterprises.
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STORServer enters cloud business
STORServer, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.
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Dropbox to add single sign-on
Dropbox, whose cloud storage and file-sharing application has been adopted by millions of consumers, will add single sign-on (SSO), its latest feature for businesses as it seeks to penetrate the workplace market.
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USB says new spec could double data transfer speeds
PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today.
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Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20Gbps.
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Fusion-io releases 1.6TB flash card, HP preps workstations for them
Fusion-io announced a flash module for workstations that has more than three times the capacity of its previous model, and for the first time Hewlett-Packard is preparing to ship workstations with the drives.
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Should universities offer Cobol classes?
At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. There are strong opinions about whether that is the right direction.
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Non-volatile DIMM cards coming soon to a server and array near you
Viking and Micron plan to begin shipping forms of non-volatile DRAM on standard DDR4 DIMMs this summer. The cards combine DRAM with a NAND flash backup that speeds recovery and can be used as a tier of storage in a server.
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