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	Toshiba offers to buy failed SSD maker OCZ Toshiba has offered to buy the assets of OCZ Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox How to Leverage New Storage Strategies This ebook covers some of the key challenges organizations are encountering with storage management, data protection and cost containment. It also shows how IT organizations can effectively address these difficulties while getting the most out of their valuable information assets. Read now! In this Issue Symantec to shut down Backup Exec.cloud Box buys tech to let admins better track, protect stored content INSIDER Software-based NAS offers free/low-cost storage VMware adds scale to Virtual SAN beta 12 tech jobs with big raise potential in 2014 Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2013: Stocking stuffers John Martin: When it comes to storage, cache is king INSIDER Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping? Richi Jennings: Xbox One launch day marred by grinding noise of DEATH WHITE PAPER: Exablox Data Storage: An Interactive eGuide In this eGuide, InfoWorld and sister publication Computerworld examine some of the newer storage approaches that enterprises are taking. Read on to learn about new storage technologies that can help you get a handle on your data. Read now! Symantec to shut down Backup Exec.cloud Symantec plans to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service, saying it lacks mobile and content-sharing features and wouldn't be the right platform for delivering them. Read More Box buys tech to let admins better track, protect stored content Cloud storage vendor Box has acquired the technology behind a company called dLoop, which it will use to add more controls that give enterprises more features for protecting their content. Read More INSIDER Software-based NAS offers free/low-cost storage Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we're reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment -- whether it's a PC, server, virtual machine, or in the cloud. Read More VMware adds scale to Virtual SAN beta VMware has posted a new beta release of Virtual SAN (VSAN) that lets enterprises add more storage capacity and management features. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox Taneja Group Solution Brief: High-End Storage For Everyone Learn what SMB and departmental storage buyers should both require and expect from storage solutions to meet their business goals, and how traditional mid- market storage based on old technologies can fall short. Read now! 12 tech jobs with big raise potential in 2014 The average salary for newly hired IT pros is expected to increase 5.6% in the coming year -- and these 12 positions are likely to see even bigger increases, according to the staffing firm Robert Half. Read More Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2013: Stocking stuffers For all those friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances who deserve something cool to brighten their holiday season, we offer these suggestions -- all $25 and under. Read More John Martin: When it comes to storage, cache is king "Tape is Dead, Disk is Tape, Flash is Disk, RAM Locality is King." So said the late Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, in 2006. While tape never really died, a new wave of vendors have picked-up his original theme, predicting that flash storage is on the verge of replacing traditional disks. Yet, attractive as the idea of replacing all your spinning disk with flash or solid state may be, unless you’re making uberdollars from real-time currency trading, it’s just too expensive to consider a wholesale swap-out of an entire disk-based enterprise data infrastructure. Read More INSIDER Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping? When Unisys CISO John Frymier came in to work on Friday, Sept. 6, the phones were ringing, and continued to ring all day. Customers were panicking over the news headlines of the day before. Read More Richi Jennings: Xbox One launch day marred by grinding noise of DEATH Release date FAIL. Some shiny new Xbox One units aren't working. An astounding revelation, I know. The worst issue seems to be dead Blu-ray disc drives that make a stomach-churning grinding noise. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is putting on a brave face. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers love life on the bleeding edge. Read More
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