3 wireless media hubs: Extra storage for mobile devices

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	3 wireless media hubs: Extra storage for mobile devices Wireless media hubs let you take along as much storage as you need and power your mobile devices besides. We look at three of the latest. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success IT as a service (ITaaS) provides a unique opportunity for IT and line-of-business leaders to realign to transform business. Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to reduce delivery time and costs through automation and commoditization. Advances in virtualization and cloud computing have helped bring IT to this major inflection point, but business and IT transformation also require organizational transformation. In this Issue SSDs do die, as Linus Torvalds just discovered DRAM shortage from Hynix fire to hit PCs hardest Brocade lays off 300 to pursue SDNs DRAM prices up over 27% since China FAB fire SK Hynix shifting more production to DRAM after price jump Larry Freeman: 3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #3 Flash INSIDER Steve Pate: Regardless of the NSA, you still need encryption WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery IDC completed in-depth interviews with ten companies who have deployed next-generation backup and recovery solutions from EMC. Their findings, highlighted in the report, show that these organizations were able to remove operational errors in tape handling and ensure deduplication across a wide range of applications and information types. Learn more. SSDs do die, as Linus Torvalds just discovered Linux coder Linus Torvalds wrote this week about how the SSD in his workstation suddenly stopped working, forcing him to delay work on the Linux 3.12 kernel. Read More DRAM shortage from Hynix fire to hit PCs hardest The damage to Hynix's China fabrication facility from a fire last week will take three to six months to repair, which will hit prices and supply hard because it is the top memory producer. Read More Brocade lays off 300 to pursue SDNs SDN is taking a toll on Brocade. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nexsan Technologies The Five Forces Advancing Archive Center Stage Big Data isn't over yet. How will you handle the ever-increasing amount of digital information? It's time to reconsider why archive may be the game-changing – and budget-saving – way to manage and secure your growing data. Storage analyst Jerome Wendt explains why it's time to rethink archive. Read now! DRAM prices up over 27% since China FAB fire Prices of DRAM chips have continued to climb after a major Hynix FAB plant was damaged by fire last week. Read More SK Hynix shifting more production to DRAM after price jump SK Hynix will increase DRAM production at its headquarters, the company said Friday, following a price spike in memory chips after a fire at a company factory in China. Read More Larry Freeman: 3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #3 Flash The start of this series covered two trends that IT workers should be aware of: The mega-shifts to cloud computing and to the software-defined data center. Make sure you’re fully prepared for these big shifts in technology that are reshaping today’s enterprise data center. Today, I’ll talk about the third trend: A fundamental shift in focus within storage systems themselves—moving from spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) to flash. Read More INSIDER Steve Pate: Regardless of the NSA, you still need encryption Thought you’d heard more than you ever wanted to about PRISM and Edward Snowden? The hits keep coming. Snowden’s latest disclosure builds on the story that not only has the NSA partnered with cloud service providers to bypass encryption and access data on their international clients, but also that they have ‘cracked much online encryption.’ What does this mean for your security team? Should you quit using encryption? Read More
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