LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 – dual SSD sizzler [Wed Nov 5 2014]

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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

Scalable storage outfit Imation SLIDES BACK after recovery
Deepening loss, lower revenues
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Why Seagate spent $374m on Xyratex: It's part of a cloud system
Exec rank multiplication
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LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 – dual SSD sizzler
The world's fastest portable storage, apparently
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/548246ff/f2bfd625/2cYN

WHOMP, there it is: Seagate demos Kinetic disk drive
Ethernet-astic fun at OpenStack
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Struggling tape bods Quantum a few quids in after good quarter
Firm is growing again
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Return of the disk drive bigness? Not for poor old, busted WD
Modest rev rise as profits fall
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Has NetApp solved the TLC for biz puzzle? We look at its MYSTERY SSD
Mars sauce
They MUST know something others don't. Right?
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*** Block Storage ***

Hyperconverged upstart Stratoscale raises $32m
Now has a war chest of $42m to take on storage giants
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PureStorage flies flash arrays into OpenStack clouds
Upstart hopes for Purity parity
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Storage, probably like a college girl buying a belt. Be ready for the
freshman 15
OMG, I just need to let my array out a bit
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*** File Storage ***

A Game of Storage Thrones: Enterprise IT, meet gripping drama
Season One of our ... well ... just read it and see what you think
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DDN sails into Amazon clouds, adds Wonderful S3 for WOS
Object store, meet Jeff Bezos and chums
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Hey - who wants 4.8 TERABYTES almost AS FAST AS MEMORY?
China's Memblaze says they've got it in PCIe. Yow
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Whoa, back up a little CommVault: ANOTHER weak quarter?
Hammer head promises improvements
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Samsung wants a bite of flash cache, will eat Proximal Data – sources
AutoCache provider will slot nicely into Korea Co's offerings
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*** Data Protection and Management ***

Tech invaders: Upstarts attack storage kingpins from all sides
Six fracturing forces looking for array weaknesses
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Samsung gobbles Proximal Data for server-side SSD
Mighty chaebol figures to make better caching software - but is it
ready to play?
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Microsoft gets storage QoS and software-defined storage religion
IOPS sniffer and Windows Server technical preview show Redmond's hand
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Keep up with the fast-moving world of flash array storage
How to pick the right kind
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SkyHawk array swoops down, 136TB claws extended
Skyera offering more capacity, less power usage
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Catalogic data copy sprawl smacker CEO Walsh talks to the Vulture
'Sorry about the soapbox'
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Storage array giants can use Azure to evacuate their back ends
Site Recovery can help to move snapshots around
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/548246ff/f2bfd625/2cTZ


*** And finally ... ***

Fusion-io co-founder turns techie for Primary Data: Biz gets new boss
David Flynn takes hands off wheel to get technical
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/548246ff/f2bfd625/2d09

Amazon is the leering monolith in the cloudy room – OpenStack boss
Azure and Google don't even qualify as scary, apparently
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