Thai flood aftermath subsides, hard drive prices slide

	Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business | Apple reportedly buys Israeli SSD-maker Anobit
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	Hard drive prices slide as Thai flood aftermath subsides Hard drive shortages peaked in October, pushing up prices by as much as 150%, but supplies and prices appear to be leveling off and may give online consumers much-needed relief in the weeks ahead. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business Apple reportedly buys Israeli SSD-maker Anobit Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 4: ACCELERATE BUSINESS RESULTS WITH YOUR CLOUD. WEBINAR - JANUARY 19, 2012. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to optimize cloud economics, reshape behavior for IT-as-a-Service, and streamline cross-functional collaboration. REGISTER NOW Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and the European Commission. Read More Apple reportedly buys Israeli SSD-maker Anobit Apple has apparently agreed to purchase Anobit Technologies, an Israeli start-up that makes enterprise-class SSDs based on consumer-grade NAND flash chips. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-Discovery and Archiving In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CIO, Network World, and IT World examine some of the hottest issues around e-discovery and archiving today. Read on to discover how some organizations are approaching data-management challenges, and the tools that are available to help. View Now Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology Imation today announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology. Read More Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements. Read More
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