Sales revenue figures show big storage systems are boss

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	Sales revenue figures show big storage systems are boss IDC released is quarterly storage tracker study last week - it showed that systems with prices of $250,000 or more took a 30.2% market share by revenue in the fourth quarter of 2010. Of the storage vendors highlighted in the report, Hitachi Data Systems' revenue increased 30% in the fourth quarter over 2009 results. NAS and iSCSI storage systems and NetApp and EMC led the market in storage sales. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Maintaining Continuity of Operations Download this HP white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster. Read Now In this Issue Western Digital to buy Hitachi's disk storage division for $4.3B SSD Security Issues Surprise Experts 300,000 clients of umbilical cord blood bank at risk of ID theft Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010 Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization and reduces costs WHITE PAPER: IBM Four keys to Improving Quality This white paper examines the systems engineering life cycle and discusses four keys for improving quality across the systems engineering "V" to help A&D companies deliver quality on time while containing costs more effectively. Read Now Western Digital to buy Hitachi's disk storage division for $4.3B Western Digital announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Hitachi's hard drive subsidiary in a cash and stock deal valued at $4.3 billion. Read More DOWNLOAD: Diskeeper Get More System Speed and Reliability Without Diskeeper, every server suffers from fragmentation. Only Diskeeper cures and prevents fragmentation and maximizes the performance and stability each server was designed to deliver. Costs far less than trying to run a site without it. Read More SSD Security Issues Surprise Experts Many storage and security experts were surprised by a UC San Diego study that found that solid-state drives are harder to erase than hard disk drives. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC A Proactive Approach to Enterprise Cloud Computing Read more to learn about Business Service Management solutions that provide the visibility and automation IT needs to address cloud challenges. Read More 300,000 clients of umbilical cord blood bank at risk of ID theft Storage tapes lost to car break-in outside San Francisco data center The world's largest stem cell bank, Cord Blood Registry, has mailed data-breach warning letters to some 300,000 people after storage tapes and a laptop were stolen from an employee's car. The break-in occurred just before midnight on Dec. 13, 2010 outside of a private data center in San Francisco called 365 Main Street, according to a police report, yet at least some of those put at risk received... Read More Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010 IDC released its external disk storage systems factory revenues for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, showing more than 5,000 petabytes shipped for year-over-year growth of 55%. Read More Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization and reduces costs While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilization rates, a costly problem that can be addressed with thin provisioning technology. Read More
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