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	SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles SSD shipments rose 66% between Q3 2010 and this year, and revenue from PC SSD sales and enterprise systems more than doubled. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Apps for business Consider this before you set your 2012 IT strategy A communication and collaboration solution that's easy to deploy and maintain. A productivity solution that meets your needs now and automatically gets better over time—built with security in mind. A simple licensing model that is cost-effective and predictable. Google Apps offers simple, powerful tools for any business. Start the conversation. In this Issue Jonny Evans: Apple plots Anobit purchase for iPhone, iPad, MacBook? Hitachi GST unveils new 2.5-in hard drive; delays Western Digital deal 20 Best U.S. Airports for Tech Travelers Ben Golub: Taxis, Zipcars and cloud storage Hands-on: The ReadyNAS NV+ provides serious storage for prosumers SandForce releases SSD controller for the cloud Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing The best of Network World's Gift Guide 2011 Intel lowers Q4 revenue over hard-drive shortage Top tech stories of 2011: From Jobs to Android, Anonymous to Egypt Preston Gralla: Who's the best cloud provider? Amazon beats Microsoft by a hair Google App Engine high-availability storage exits experimental stage TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Apps for business Consider this before you set your 2012 IT strategy A communication and collaboration solution that's easy to deploy and maintain. A productivity solution that meets your needs now and automatically gets better over time—built with security in mind. A simple licensing model that is cost-effective and predictable. Google Apps offers simple, powerful tools for any business. Start the conversation. Jonny Evans: Apple plots Anobit purchase for iPhone, iPad, MacBook? Apple is exploring new technologies to increase flash storage capacity and durability at limited additional cost, and may take a strategic investment -- or even overall purchase, of Israeli flash memory technology firm, Anobit. Read More Hitachi GST unveils new 2.5-in hard drive; delays Western Digital deal Hitachi today announced its fastest 10,000rpm laptop hard drive, which it said has 18% faster sequential and 17% random performance than its predecessor and it comes with up to 900GB capacity. Read More 20 Best U.S. Airports for Tech Travelers Walking past laptop-toting digital nomads who huddle around the outlets lining the concourse, you arrive at your gate with 30 minutes to spare. You have a 6-hour flight in front of you, and a laptop and a smartphone that need a full charge to keep you working and listening to music throughout the flight. You stalk the gate area. The two available outlets on the payphone are taken. No outlets on the walls. The remaining minutes before departure click down. A baby is crying. (Please, please, please, you think, don't seat me next to the baby...). "Final call for boarding." Your laptop has an hour of life left, and so does your phone. When both are dead, your noise-canceling headphones will be useless. You board and approach your seat. You're in 16B. The baby, in 16C, is already crying... Read More Ben Golub: Taxis, Zipcars and cloud storage As a kid, when I was being carpooled to soccer practice, I got into a heated discussion with my friends regarding the kind of car we would be driving as adults when we took our kids to soccer practice. Impassioned arguments were made on behalf of flying cars, car-boat hybrids, and personal jetpacks; I suspect we would have been disappointed to learn that the vast majority of us would be driving our kids to soccer in plain old SUVs -- not too far a cry from the woody station wagon we were riding in at the time of the discussion. Read More Hands-on: The ReadyNAS NV+ provides serious storage for prosumers Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+ device includes storage for up to four 1TB hard drives along with three levels of RAID synchronization. Insider (registration required) Read More SandForce releases SSD controller for the cloud SandForce today announced its newest NAND flash controller that is aimed for use with SSDs in cloud computing systems because it has twice the error correction capability for data resilience. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Increase Database Power and Capacity In this solution brief, you can see how the scalability of HP ProLiant DL980 and HP VMA-series memory arrays provide more efficient capacity expansion for a variety of applications, without increasing complexity. Learn how Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Read More The best of Network World's Gift Guide 2011 Network World's own Indiana Shaw goes through more than just the temple of doom to find gifts suitable for you or other techies on your list. Just like his more famous archeologist cousin who digs up ancient artifacts and treasures from around the globe, Indiana Shaw scours the globe and the Internet to dig up the greatest technology treasures. Insider (registration required) Read More Intel lowers Q4 revenue over hard-drive shortage Intel warned Monday that fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than anticipated due to a hard-drive shortage. The chip maker now anticipates quarterly revenue of $13.7 billion, down from a previous estimate of $14.7 billion. Read More Top tech stories of 2011: From Jobs to Android, Anonymous to Egypt In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year: Read More Preston Gralla: Who's the best cloud provider? Amazon beats Microsoft by a hair Wondering which cloud storage provider to go with for your business? The data services company Nasuni has run tests, and it shows Amazon on top, just nosing out Microsoft. Read More Google App Engine high-availability storage exits experimental stage The latest version of Google's SDK (software development kit) for its cloud platform App Engine includes the High-Replication Datastore, which has been generally available, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Read More TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds, the company said on Tuesday. Read More
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