HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

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	HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM XIV Storage System Read the solution brief and learn how this easy-to-manage system offers outstanding performance and high availability. Learn More. In this Issue Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault? Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering Amazon Releases Desktop App for Its Cloud Storage Service Beyond .zip: Secrets of the Archive Utility Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD Hackers blackmail Belgian bank with threats to publish customer data Google Drive Begs the Question: Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud? IT Blogwatch: The Pirate Bay down soon: Bloggers seek alternative today Apple rejecting iOS apps that use Dropbox SDK Solo G3 is fire- and water-proof WHITE PAPER: IBM Cost/Benefit Case for IBM XIV Systems: Comparing Cost New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. Download now to learn more. Learn More. Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault? Expensive and specialized Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind? Read More Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering Dell EqualLogic SSD and SAS hybrids highlight no-muss, no-fuss, fast storage tiering across multiple arrays Read More Amazon Releases Desktop App for Its Cloud Storage Service If you have an Amazon account, you also have five gigabytes of free online storage for your files at your disposal through the Amazon Cloud Drive service. You may not have known that, though, because accessing that space hasn't been as easy as it is with services like Dropbox and SkyDrive. Read More Beyond .zip: Secrets of the Archive Utility If you've ever sent, or received, a big file via email, you've undoubtably encountered a zip file. Double-click one of these and it expands to show files hidden inside. A zip file, or archive, takes up less space than the original files, so that your documents, images and whatnot are easier to send or store. But what do you do if a file won't expand or you come across a different type of archive? Here are answers to frequently asked questions about working with compressed files on Mac OS X. Read More Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD Coming in 120GB and 240GB capacities, and priced at $430 and $700 respectively, Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD is a solid-state drive that offers a nice speed boost over FireWire 800, but is overall slower than other Thunderbolt drives we've tested. (We tested the 240GB version.) Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Formulate A Database Security Strategy Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core — their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements. Learn More Hackers blackmail Belgian bank with threats to publish customer data Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if the bank does not pay $197,000 before Friday. Read More Google Drive Begs the Question: Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud? Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions -- who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen -- are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too. Read More IT Blogwatch: The Pirate Bay down soon: Bloggers seek alternative today Access to The Pirate Bay will be taken down, in a few weeks from today in the UK. By court order, the allegedly-illegal magnet-link search engine will be blocked by the nation's biggest ISPs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers find alternatives.   Read More Apple rejecting iOS apps that use Dropbox SDK Apple has reportedly been rejecting developer's iOS apps that use the Dropbox SDK. Read More Solo G3 is fire- and water-proof ioSafe's Solo G3 is the latest addition to the company's line of fire- and water-proof hard drives, and is an updated version of the ioSafe Solo ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ). The Solo G3 has a new case design, replaces the USB 2.0 interface on the original Solo drive with USB 3.0, and has also gotten rid of the internal fan, allowing the G3 to operate in silence. The Solo G3 comes in 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB capacities and retails for $300, $350, and $400. respectively. Read More
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