Hitachi targets 2015 for storage medium that lasts 100M years

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	Hitachi targets 2015 for storage medium that lasts 100M years Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. Read More WHITE PAPER: TRUSTe A Comprehensive Data Privacy Plan As the increase in doing business and sharing of information, or data, online continues to grow exponentially, the importance of developing a data privacy strategy is critical. Read this white paper and learn how to develop a comprehensive strategy. Read Now! In this Issue Toshiba to sell own hybrid drive for laptops New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers HDS releases virtual storage array for smaller firms Apple warns iCloud users of looming storage loss Facebook users get Dropbox file share option Detecting natural gas leaks to prevent disasters in Silicon Valley Terracotta, Tokutek update data storage technologies WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Cloud Solutions for BC/DR Leverage the cloud to meet business continuity and disaster recovery challenges. CA ARCserve offers a full range of products, from bare-metal restore to full automatic failover for high availability, with options to deploy on-premise, off-premise, or in the cloud. Learn More Toshiba to sell own hybrid drive for laptops Toshiba plans to release its own hybrid hard drive, which will combine 8GB of NAND flash with 32MB of RAM in a drive that will have a total of 1TB of capacity. Read More New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers The final specification of DDR4 DRAM, which will help PCs run faster through more power-efficient data transfers, was published Tuesday. Read More HDS releases virtual storage array for smaller firms Hitachi Data Systems has released its Hitachi Unified Storage VM, its first unified platform with enterprise virtualization for all data types, including file, block and objects. Read More WEBCAST: SNW Big Data, Big Opportunity Reviews recent research conducted by Computerworld on the topic of Business Analytics and Big Data. Also features a discussion regarding the urgency of dealing with rapidly growing amounts of data in our datacenters and why converting unstructured data into business value is critical for IT departments. Learn more Apple warns iCloud users of looming storage loss Apple on Monday began reminding some iCloud users that they will soon lose the 20GB of free storage they'd received when they migrated from MobileMe. Read More Facebook users get Dropbox file share option Facebook and Dropbox announced a partnership through which current Dropbox users automatically get a file-sharing icon on their home page. Read More Detecting natural gas leaks to prevent disasters in Silicon Valley Picarro designs gas leak detecting hardware and software, then sells it to utility companies. It is more sensitive than previously available equipment, which Picarro's CEO says could help prevent another disaster like the one in San Bruno, Calif. Read More Terracotta, Tokutek update data storage technologies Java caching software provider Terracotta and database provider Tokutek have each released new offerings designed to entice organizations to try new ways of storing data, from running in-memory databases to using solid state disks to speed performance. Read More
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