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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

SMART Storage, Diablo brew a wee DRAM of MYSTERY tonic
All we needed is some flash, some system memory and $36m
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/smart_diablo_ssd/

Hard drives snatch hold of semi giant LSI, jump right off a cliff
Dying disks weigh down sales
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/lsi_q1_2013/

Not even Facebook, Apple's millions can halt Fusion-io's bleed
Still, there's always next quarter for flash biz
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/fusion_io_q3fy2013/


*** Block Storage ***

Stealthy storage startup PernixData picks up VMware guru
Flying Dutchman weighs anchor for accelerated seas
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/pernixdata_denneman/

Brocade, wake up: Cisco is here, and it ALSO has 16 gig FC
Unstoppable Ethernet proved stoppable
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/cisco_fc/

HP's StoreVirtual gets a bit older, decides it needs some Fibre
LeftHand turn for Palo Alto
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/storevirtual_fc/

NetApp taps Oz cloud lab for federation exploration
University of Melbourne's Cloud Lab cooks up SLAs for ops in multiple
public clouds
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/netapp_university_of_melbourne_cloud_lab/

World's first 5mm-thin gyrating models paraded on disk catwalk
Crumbs, someone needs a fat lunch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24/wd_triplets/


*** File Storage ***

IBM storage crew: Why bury your BEST kit at the back of the larder?
One jar of exquisite truffles hidden behind 20 different brands of
baked bean
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/ibm_dancing/

Reduxio plots 'revolutionary' hybrid array tech: It will need it
Storage startup has to compete in increasingly crowded space
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/reduxio/

Fusion-io buys NexGen
Gets hybrid flash/disk array startup
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24/fusion_io_nexgen/

BitTorrent offers file synch tool for PCs and NAS
Peer-to-peer file sharing for backup and collaboration … honestly
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24/bit_torrent_sync_for_nas/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

Object Storage: A solution in search of a problem?
This industry deserves an OSCAR
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/a_failure_to_launch/

GreenBytes' data smite knight gets Citrix green light
IO Engine approved for cloudy virtual desktops
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/greenbytes_citrix/

Wannabe ZFS rival Exablox decloaks MYSTERY NAS box
It's managed through the cloud. That's what you wanted, right?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/exablox_oneblox_lotsablox/

Mutant hybrid upstart joins pushback against storage giants
Array-maker boasts triple-digit growth at expense of HP, NetApp and
pals
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/tegile_numbers/

Reg man crunches IBM's storage hardware revenues
A tale of two charts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24/ibm_storage_hw_revenues/



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The Reg: 2,000km-wide Eye-of-Sauron MONSTER hurricane spotted on Saturn [Wed May 1 2013]

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Business News Alibaba splurges half a billion on a slice of 'Chinese Twitter' E-tailer sees commercial opportunity in Weibo Fujitsu sells off microcontroller and analog chip biz to Spansion Japanese giant books a loss in 2012, optimistic about 2013 Apple: You thought Google dodged taxes? Get a load of THIS 'The market is going to be all over it...' Intel supremo backs biz pal SoftBank's billion-dollar bid for Sprint Otellini: Japanese have made a 'very compelling' offer Huawei boss: Next CEO won't be member of my family Company won't go public either, Ren confirms in leaked internal email Yahoo! tries! to! tempt! TV! crowd! with! tiny! dick! Original comedy telly and sex-talking celebs coming to the Purple Palace Oi, journos. Try NOT to get hacked again. Lots of love, Twitter Hackers have painted a bullseye on hacks' heads, chat site warns British biz walking around with 'Hack Me' sign taped to its back Gov cyber strategy? There is one? Good lord Channel News BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in 5 years PlayBook, anyone? It makes a great coaster Bechtle's double digit sales, profit hike in UK? Satisfactory, says parent firm Wait a sec, isn't there a Euro meltdown on? What's that noise upstairs? It's a shakeup at enormo reseller Insight Welcome back, boss, your temp replacement did an excellent job... Credit safety net ripped from under elder IT distie Northamber Sliding trade at Surrey-based wholesaler fingered Salesforce boots SAP from customer-wrangling software top slot SaaS outsold on-premises in 2012, says Gartner Cloud News As cloud rises, vendor marketing gets weird Comment Marketing departments going ga ga off of cloudy fumes Amazon goes legit with cloud certification plan 'Enterprisey enough for ya?' bellow Bezos & Co. SoftLayer hoists Riak NoSQL datastore onto its cloud Basho hopes to mine rich seam of cloudy dev gold Data Centre News SGI pulls out tax bennies to push a bigger profit in Q1 Wraps up LMDs of profit destruction, shows decent sales growth Cray peddles more iron than expected in Q1 Not enough to keep it from booking a loss, though Cloudera releases Impala SQL for Hadoop Big-data elephant to pronk like a gazelle IBM storage crew: Why bury your BEST kit at the back of the larder? Storagebod One jar of exquisite truffles hidden behind 20 different brands of baked bean Object Storage: A solution in search of a problem? 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