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• 04 May 2012

• Video: Video: The Byte - Barnes & Noble subsidiary, LG Cloud, Google Street View, Microsoft HomeOS

  Microsoft will invest $300 million in a new Barnes and Noble subsidiary. LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service so users can access content across various devices. Google released an FCC report that investigates the payload data its Street View cars have been collecting. Microsoft started testing its home automation software called HomeOS.

• 03 May 2012

• News: Hitachi 4TB hard drives tested

  Hitachi's new 4TB hard drives (5K4000 and 7K4000) perform well in Hardware Info tests

• 30 April 2012

• News: LG joins cloud storage market

  LG has announced it will launch a cloud storage offering from tomorrow.

• 18 April 2012

• News: Livescribe adds Dropbox integration

  Livescribe has announced that Dropbox cloud storage is available with its Echo smartpen.

• 17 April 2012

• News: Google Drive will go live next week

  Google will reportedly launch its Google Drive cloud storage service next week.

• 12 April 2012

• News: LogMeIn launches Cubby cloud-storage service

  (Image Caption: Cubby's offerings include an iOS app for remote file access.)

• News: Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

  Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.

• 09 April 2012

• News: Red Hat announces beta availability of Storage 2.0

  A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company.

• 06 April 2012

• News: Amazon releases staggering storage figures

  Just how big is Amazon Web Service's (S3) Simple Storage Service? Well, it holds 905 billion objects, and it's growing by a billion per day, the company says.

• News: YouDazzle combines social collaboration, cloud storage

  There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses as well. YouDazzle, a Silicon Valley startup, says it has created a tool that combines the best of both worlds.

• 05 April 2012

• News: Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applications more quickly.

• News: Fusion-io CEO: Flash is not just about storage

  The real advantage of high density NAND Flash is more its ability to carry out application workload acceleration than its capacity for storage, according to Flash storage vendor Fusion-io.

• 04 April 2012

• News: Megaupload lawyer says case could affect other storage services

  A verdict against Megaupload in the U.S. would mean other cloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the shuttered file-sharing site said on Tuesday.

• 03 April 2012

• News: StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances

  StorSimple has introduced four cloud-connected storage appliances that offer better performance and more local capacity, the company said on Tuesday.

• 31 March 2012

• News: Atlantis combats storage bottlenecks with ILIO for Citrix XenApp

  Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specialist Atlantis Computing is moving into virtual server optimisation with the launch of its ILIO optimisation product for Citrix XenApp.

• 30 March 2012

• News: PCIe SSD task force to tackle interoperability issues

  The Storage Networking Industry Association is forming a task force to tackle interoperability issues related to PCIe-based solid-state drives. So far, 50 industry representatives have agreed to participate.

• 28 March 2012

• News: Cloud storage vendor wants to ease mobile collaboration

  When files are stored in the cloud, many companies need access to them on mobile devices. And once they're on those devices, users want to be able to edit the files and place them back into the cloud. That process has been difficult at times, experts say, but cloud collaboration vendor, Box, is making some moves to address it.

• 27 March 2012

• News: Is there a 'best' way to set up your private cloud storage?

  Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea -- different types of private cloud almost always require different approaches.

• 26 March 2012

• News: HP's server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck

  In its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 Smart Array, HP uses solid-state drives and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration to address I/O throughput issues.

• 14 March 2012

• News: PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

  The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

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