Shell Oil targets hybrid cloud as fix for energy-saving, agile IT

	Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive | Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card
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	Shell Oil targets hybrid cloud as fix for energy-saving, agile IT To address soaring data storage and major power consumption issues, Shell Oil has turned to the public cloud to become more agile in deploying application and development services. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Driving Storage Efficiencies with Automated Tiering Storage management has become a huge issue for IT managers, and it's not going to subside, according to market researchers. New research conducted by IDG Research Services reveals that IT managers are considering tiered storage as an essential tool. Download this white paper to learn more about the survey results. Learn More! In this Issue Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards UK hacker accessed accounts for 20 months before bust Mark Hurd spells out Oracle analytics vision Darragh Delaney: 5 tips for managing remote data centers Freescale BYOD plan finds happy users Megaupload lawyer says case could affect other storage services StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances Report: PHI security is MIA RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced its first enterprise-class 4TB desktop hard drive, which offers one-third more capacity than its predecessor. Read More Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card Samsung Electronics has started mass producing a microSD card that uses an Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) interface to improve data transfer speeds, the company said on Wednesday. Read More LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards LSI announced three new PCIe-based NAND flash cards that are aimed at three market segments -- primary storage on an application server, all-in-one application caching and a RAID data protection product. Read More UK hacker accessed accounts for 20 months before bust The takedown of Edward Pearson is said to be part of a larger crackdown on cybercrime in the UK. Read More Mark Hurd spells out Oracle analytics vision Oracle rolled out a series of announcements aimed at portraying itself as a dominant player in business analytics on Wednesday, as well as one relevant to customers of rival SAP. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy Understand Your Data: The Future of Backup and Archiving Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves. Learn More Darragh Delaney: 5 tips for managing remote data centers Over at the Ethergeek blog last week, Josh Stephens had an interesting piece on the challenges of finding experts with data center expertise. Another trend that I see is the centralization of IT staff to main data centers. Gone are the days of having a dedicated IT person at sites which run a number of local services or applications. This brings its own problems as it can be cost and time prohibitive travelling to these sites to diagnose and fix problems. The good news is that there are a number of technologies out there that can make this task easier.   Read More Freescale BYOD plan finds happy users Freescale Semiconductor has responded to pressure from workers by implementing a BYOD infrastructure and a collaborative internal network that rewards people for new ideas. Read More Megaupload lawyer says case could affect other storage services A verdict against Megaupload in the U.S. would mean other cloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the shuttered file-sharing site said on Tuesday. Read More StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances StorSimple has introduced four cloud-connected storage appliances that offer better performance and more local capacity, the company said on Tuesday. Read More Report: PHI security is MIA According to "Breach Report 2011: Protected Health Information" by the IT security firm Redspin, 19 million patient health records were breached last year, a 97-percent increase from 2010. Read More
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