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	Drobo embraces Thunderbolt, releases Drobo Mini Drobo today announced two new storage arrays, including its first portable unit, the Drobo Mini, and a larger array with as much as six times the performance of predecessors. The company also announced its support for Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Evolve Customer Care with Collaboration Using collaboration technology to improve customer service gives your company an opportunity to evolve beyond traditional service models to create better customer relationships. While the telephone will always be an option, many customers want experiences where chat, social media, video and self-service are also part of the norm. Download a new white paper from ZK Research to learn how using collaboration technology can help your organization improve customer responsiveness and provide customers with self-service offerings, leading to greater loyalty. In this Issue Lucas Mearian: Apple copied Microsoft with iPad, not the other way around HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 rumors 'confirmed': Apple ditches dock connector Darragh Delaney: Remote access technologies in a BYOD era LinkedIn hit with lawsuit over massive data breach Storage software sales growth slowest in two years Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine 10 questions for ownCloud CFO Dan Curtis Dan Morris: Turbulence pushing banks into the cloud WHITE PAPER: Symantec An interactive eGuide: Backup Solutions In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CSO, CIO, and Network World, examine many of the issues that mid-sized companies grapple with today regarding disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup. Read on for expert advice and analysis to help companies protect themselves in the face of disaster. Read Now! Lucas Mearian: Apple copied Microsoft with iPad, not the other way around   I'm guilty. When I read the reports of Microsoft's Surface tablets this week, I did a big internal eye roll and thought, "Microsoft copies Apple again." Then today, I saw a very funny post and it reminded me that Microsoft actually came out with the Tablet PC in 2002; it's just that no one cared at the time. Read More HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs HP today released a smaller version of its Windows NAS file server, the X5520. The new model is aimed at SMBs and addressing unstructured data growth due to trends such as bring-your-own technology. Read More Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 rumors 'confirmed': Apple ditches dock connector The iPhone 5 rumors are confirmed (perhaps 'triangulated' would be a better word). Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will ditch the classic 30-pin dock connector that it's used since the early days of iPods. Its replacement will be another proprietary port, again incompatible with anything else. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are either scandalized or can't wait to buy the next shiny. Read More Darragh Delaney: Remote access technologies in a BYOD era In my last blog post I looked at the basics of putting a BYOD policy together for your network. It focused what to do when end-users bring their own devices into the workplace and request access to the corporate network. Since I published the post, I had a number of enquiries about what options exist for when users want to use their own devices to connect to the workplace from external or home networks.    Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease with NetApp FAS2240 This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make the FAS2240 an appealing offering for small to medium-sized businesses: easy deployment, simple manageability, and performance scalability. View Now LinkedIn hit with lawsuit over massive data breach LinkedIn has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to meet "industry standard" security practices in connection with a massive data breach earlier this month, according to court documents. Read More Storage software sales growth slowest in two years Storage software sales have had a rough ride over the past two years, according to IDC, with sales to large companies and government and educational sectors cooling off the most. Read More Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine As more and more companies use Hadoop to handle big data, anticipation for forthcoming Version 2.0 grows Read More 10 questions for ownCloud CFO Dan Curtis Name: Dan Curtis Read More Dan Morris: Turbulence pushing banks into the cloud   We all know that the old business model for investment banking technology doesn't work and this is driving bank technology departments everywhere to cut costs.  However I was struck by a recent special report in The Economist which outlines that, while investment banks are shrinking, their retail arms (Citibank, HSBC, Santander, etc.) are growing due to changes in technology.  The key trends they found were: Read More
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