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	Samsung mass produces 1.4GBps PCIe flash cards for notebooks Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for ultra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1400MBps throughput. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Service Assurance Suite Discover how you can get visibility into virtualized environments, the cloud and software-defined date centers, analyze availability and performance, optimize the environment and control costs with end-to-end performance, capacity management and reporting. Learn more. In this Issue Nationwide makes SSDs standard on PCs, to employee applause Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says Sharky: Of course it's all secure -- we do audits FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity Matt Hamblen: In the Snowden era, here's one true hero for freedom of information Jeff Baxter: In era of sequestration, data storage optimization key for government agencies Best Places to Work in IT 2013: A tour of Quicken Loans WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. Nationwide makes SSDs standard on PCs, to employee applause Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users. Read More Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Read More Sharky: Of course it's all secure -- we do audits Network security pilot fish is working for a big publishing company when something genuinely disturbing turns up in an audit: more than a million files that can be rewritten by almost anyone. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including: - Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years - Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours - Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours Learn more. FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use. Read More Matt Hamblen: In the Snowden era, here's one true hero for freedom of information Edward Snowden is being called both a traitor and hero for leaking classified details about U.S. surveillance programs.   The discussion about his enemy-or-hero status took on new meaning for me last night when I heard a true American hero speak at a Society of Professional Journalists banquet at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Read More Jeff Baxter: In era of sequestration, data storage optimization key for government agencies Today, many government agencies – civilian and defense – find themselves in a technology quandary: the volume of data that must be stored is growing rapidly, while shrinking budgets are limiting capital expenditures (i.e. – servers, storage devices, etc.) required to store all of this data. Read More Best Places to Work in IT 2013: A tour of Quicken Loans Quicken Loans moves into the No. 1 spot on this year's Best Places to Work in IT list. Here's a peek at some of the quirks and perks enjoyed by employees. Read More
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