The Reg Storage: Video thrilled the radio star: Tracking the history of magnetic tape [Wed Oct 16 2013]

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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

HGST pushes out bulk storage spinner with 5 power-sipping settings
MegaScale, mini-power
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/15/hgsts_bulky_spinner_power_sipper/

Tape rocks for storage - if you don't need to, um, access your data
SSDs wait in the wings, sharpening their scythes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/14/tape_the_death_watch/

Boffins build BEELLION-YEAR storage medium
Cat videos will outlast humanity if stored on Tungsten encapsulated by
Silicon Nitride
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/14/boffins_build_beellionyear_storage_medium/

Video thrilled the radio star: Tracking the history of magnetic tape
Part three... That's entertainment
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/history_of_magnetic_tape_part_three/

NAND flash chips to beat shrink wrap cash trap with 3D stack
Save us from the INCREDIBLE shrinking NAND...and incredibly expensive
alternatives
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/nand_chippery_goes_3d_by_stacking/


*** Whitepaper ***

Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup
View the Storage Switzerland report on backup software licensing placing undue burden on enterprises and the new era of licensing to improve efficiencies and costs.
http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/d/b68/9e7f3/65d/8489fbc0?td=week_sec_e


*** Block Storage ***

Facebook adds Flash to up the tempo of its enormous disk-o-tech
'Anyone wanting to deliver Terabytes to the web might be interested'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/flashcache_upgrade/

HP: Classic storage? Nah. They'll eat glommed store+serve gloop in '14
And what the heck happened to Memristor?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/hp_storage_on_the_slow_escalator/

HP offers enterprise fatness to small biz bods in bulked-up sales push
MSA 2040 'first entry array' with 12gig SAS, 16gig FC, says firm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/hp_selling_new_small_san_storage/


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Supercharge your infrastructure
Fusion­‐io has developed a shared storage solution that provides new performance management capabilities required to maximize flash utilization.
http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/d/b75/9e7f3/65d/4effd4b8?td=week_sec_e


*** File Storage ***

HDS gives EMC and NetApp a good benchmark kicking
EMC, how's that 'Speed 2 Lead' campaign working out?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/hds_superior_spec_benchmark_results/

Tintri unveils VM-aware mutant hybrids and all-in-one array joystick
Hip, hip, array...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/tintri_slings_out_new_box_and_scaleout_growth/

OCZ balances books, files results following 4-year omnishambles
New management finally makes sense of financial records
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/ocz_finally_files_results_with_four_years_of_fixed_errors/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

Fusion-io flogs mutant array, souped-up software to small biz
Slaps down hybrid upstarts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/15/fusionio_flashes_out_mutant_smb_array/

Twitteratti at NetApp event spill guts over FlashRay's innards
StorageGRID gets shot in arm, ready to take on Glacier
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/15/flashray_tweeties_leak_tech_sweeties/

Tape never died, it was just resting
Welcome resurgence
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/14/feature_enterprise_storage_tape_drives/

It's that time again: Sources whisper about NetApp Quantum slurp
It could work – just like it could have worked two years ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/quantum_for_sale/

AWS' Glacier and RedShift creep into to Australia
Latency matters for data deep freezes? Who knew?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/aws_glacier_and_redshift_creep_into_to_australia/



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