The Reg Storage: WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP [Wed Oct 2 2013]

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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

Seagate to storage bods: You CAN touch this (at last). Stop, HAMR time
We've talked about it for a while... next month, you'll actually *see*
it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/seagate_hitting_capacity_nail_with_hamr/

WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP
Less than £0.04/GB, but it loses the Thunderbolt speed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/26/my_bigger_slower_book_from_wd/

Fancy facing an Amazon backup beatdown on cold storage spinners?
Seagate's EVault arm does, according to storage insiders
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/evault_evaluating_cold_storage_spinners/

Storage array giants eye up cloud rear ends – but will it end in tiers
or tears?
Spooks, schnooks ... NSA isn't going to scare off this money maker
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/storage_arrays_getting_cloud_backends/


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*** Block Storage ***

Flash fettlers Fusion-io scoop IBM as reseller partner
So that's why Big Blue dumped TMS' server flash cards
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/big_blue_favours_fusionio_flash/

When the SSD came to storage land: How flashy upstarts got their break
Startups rush in where vendor giants fear to tread
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/26/five_years_on_part_3/

5 years in storage: Flash mutants, big data and (WTF is) the cloud
So many changes ...to StorageBod's *vocabulary*, at least
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/five_years_in_storage/


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*** File Storage ***

Actifio and the curious affair of the AIX copy reduction tech
'Been breeding in the wild for a long time, there's some strange beasts
out there'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/actifios_aix_affair/

Virident bulks up FlashMAX, but it still can't sprint
Flash card's had too many protein shakes and not enough treadmill time
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/flash_bodybuilder_virident_bulks_up/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

Sceptical markets snub Violin Memory: Can the flashy biz bounce back?
It ain't getting any easier in the flashy upstart world - where's the
dosh, Don?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/violin_and_the_meatgrinders/

How to break out of the storage hardware zoo
In search of scalability
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/storage_hardware/

VMware vSAN test pilots: Don't panic but there's a chance of DATA LOSS
AHCI SATA controller won't play nice with Virtzilla's robo-storage beta
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/vmware_warns_of_possible_vsan_beta_data_loss/

Look out, world! HP's found a use for Autonomy - rescuing Win XP bods
Life-support switch-off deadline looms, wouldn't want anything to
happen to your lovely data
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/hp_offers_xp_deadend_exit_route/



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