The Reg Storage: Back up all you like - but can you resuscitate your data after a flood? [ Wed Jul 31 2013]

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Sony and Panasonic plan 300GB Blu-Ray replacement for 2015
Will anyone bother with a standards war?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/sony_and_panasonic_promise_300gb_bluray_replacement_by_2015/


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*** Block Storage ***

Cisco and NetApp engage in light consensual FlexPoddery
Channel laps up new storage design templates
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/cisco_and_netapp_engaging_in_consensual_flexpoddery/

Dell: New storage dish? Nah - we'll just mash up EqualLogic and
Compellent
We have all the ingredients... trust us, it'll taste great
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/25/dells_deliberate_adaptiveness/

EMC's ViPR sinks fangs into LUN aggregation
Srivastava sets out what EMC's latest tech can and can't do
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/24/emc_viprs_aggregating_of_luns/


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*** File Storage ***

WD: Enjoying our $630m, Seagate? Let's ruin your day with our results
More profitable platters put Western Digital in the lead
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/25/wd_widens_gap_with_seagate/

Seagate dock hands: Tea, lads? Fewer hard disks than last year, eh...
Revenue-boosting Thai flood scarcity effect is fading away
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/25/seagate_q4_fy_2013/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

QLogic's save-the-biz pitch: Ditch the switch glitch - get rich
Server adapter firm to focus on, er, server adapters...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/qlogic_shrinks_to_grow/

SolidFire snaps up $31m in funding, brandishes 3.4PB monster
100-node giant far outstrips competition, reckons upstart
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/26/solidfire_shoots_out_big_muvver/

Back up all you like - but can you resuscitate your data after a flood?
Trevor Pott learns a salutary lesson in data restoration
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/25/data_restoration_tested_after_calgary_flood/


*** And finally ... ***

Flash slab lab blab: NVMe-friendly PCIe spotted on HGST's cards
Intel and EMC fashionably late to solid-state cache party
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/24/wds_hgst_has_a_pci_flash_product/



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