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	SSD prices continue to plunge Solid-state drive pricing has dropped about 30% this year, reaching what researchers call the magic price point of $1-per-gigabyte of capacity, according to information from IHS iSupply and Dynamite Data Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Staying Ahead of Data Protection Challenges Does your organization still yearn for an infrastructure that can handle unpredictable data growth and enable you to enhance service levels, while ensuring data protection? Learn how to completely transform your data protection processes so that your organization can accelerate transformations and make existing operations more efficient. Learn more. In this Issue Darlene Storm: Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes More data-wiping malware found in Iran EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X YEAR END: 2012 Tech News Review Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Egyptian hacker claims to find Yahoo flaws RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Darlene Storm: Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes Although started in secret, the massive spying powers granted to the National Counterterrorism Center include access to any U.S. government database in order to analyze that stored info for suspicious patterns of behavior or for terrorism indicators. Data on innocent Americans can be collected and stored for five years, just in case you might commit future crimes. All it takes is a notice to be published on the Federal Register and your privacy rights are nonexistent. Read More More data-wiping malware found in Iran A new piece of malware that deletes entire partitions and user files from infected computers has been found in Iran, according to an alert issued Sunday by Maher, Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center. Read More EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X In its Project X initiative, EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers and is developing software to tie all of an enterprise's flash equipment together. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Big Data, Big Innovations Think big data, and think opportunity. That is, think beyond storing and managing data, and leverage analytics to derive more value than imaginable from your business intelligence. This white paper offers a forward thinking, collaborative approach to analyzing data and changing the way you think about business. Learn More. YEAR END: 2012 Tech News Review Smartphones, tablets, hirings and firings were all part of the tech landscape in 2012. In this year's Tech News Review we'll take a look at some of the biggest stories of the year. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb. Read More Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). Read More Egyptian hacker claims to find Yahoo flaws A hacker in Egypt has released vague details of three vulnerabilities he claims to have found within Yahoo's website, the second time in two months he found problems in the website of a major technology company. Read More
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