Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data

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	Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data Microsoft is offering Windows Azure customers the facility of transferring their data offline to and from Azure storage accounts using hard disk drives. Read More WEBCAST: HP HP Webcast: Mobile Application Development More than 50% of custom mobile apps have been deployed by business units without IT oversight. The results of this Mobile App Development Survey highlight the responses of 208 IT leaders surveyed by IDC. Hear how your peers are grappling with app testing processes, cross-platform development approaches, performance and security concerns. View Now In this Issue Easy Save: 4 services that take the pain out of backups New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives Free cloud storage service MegaCloud goes dark Seagate Kinetic - Cloud storage on a disk, no server required Transporter network storage device cuts cost with bring-your-own-drive option WEBCAST: Oracle IT Budget Strategies for Financial Services Date: November 20th, 2013 Time: 1 PM Join this live Webcast to hear how IT is rebalancing budgets to accommodate innovation and learn how more effective project portfolio management processes and systems can help. Learn More Easy Save: 4 services that take the pain out of backups Convenient. Affordable. Easy to manage. Our top picks offer that and other useful options. Read More New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software Be Ready for Big Data Big Data Analytics has become synonymous with Hadoop. As with any new technology, there is many times a lack of expertise – and at a minimum a learning curve. Learn about the choices you have for implementing a Big Data environment. Metascale, a Big Data service provider, manages all of Sears Big Data processing along with other companies. View Now Free cloud storage service MegaCloud goes dark The website for MegaCloud, a provider of free and paid consumer cloud storage, is inaccessible and users of the service are complaining on social media sites that they have not had access to their data for days. Read More Seagate Kinetic - Cloud storage on a disk, no server required Building your own storage area network (SAN) involves many layers, not the least of which is the server layer communicating with the storage devices. Seagate has recently announced a new storage architecture called Kinetic that builds server-like functionality and ethernet right on the drive itself. Read More Transporter network storage device cuts cost with bring-your-own-drive option The new Transporter Sync provides all the features of the original, but you bring your own hard drive. Read More
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