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	12 free cloud storage options With all the public cloud storage offerings on the market today, many vendors just want customers to sign up for their services. So, in return for a new account, many offer free cloud storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices Building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations. This paper identifies the many ways the public cloud can supplement backup and recovery strategies and offers overall best practices to ensure secure and efficient data protection. Learn More In this Issue Hitachi targets 2015 for data storage that last 100 million years National air traffic control switches to virtual desktops and flash storage Salesforce.com takes aim at cloud storage market ... and Box 5 Enterprise Alternatives to Dropbox Cloudian hopes to woo enterprises with free edition of storage platform RIM, Microsoft ink licensing deal for media-focused file storage format Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Two Worlds In this report we look at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data, on-premise with Scale-out NAS or in the Public Cloud. Learn More Hitachi targets 2015 for data storage that last 100 million years Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. Read More National air traffic control switches to virtual desktops and flash storage UK air traffic control organisation NATS says it will save millions of pounds with the help of a virtual desktop and flash-based data storage system for its new cloud infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More Salesforce.com takes aim at cloud storage market ... and Box Salesforce.com, the 800-pound gorilla of software as a service (SaaS), today jumped into the public cloud storage market with what could be an eye toward one vendor in particular: Box. Read More 5 Enterprise Alternatives to Dropbox The recent Dropbox data breach has many IT executives telling employees not to use it. These five products offer the administrative and security features that may restore their faith in cloud data storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Real-Time Insight for Big Data Machine data holds critical operational insights into user behavior, security risks, capacity consumption and more. Learn how to leverage this unstructured data and correlate meaningful events all in real time. Learn More Cloudian hopes to woo enterprises with free edition of storage platform Cloudian has launched a free, community edition of its software and object-based storage platform, which can store up to 100TB and be integrated with Amazon's cloud, the company said on Tuesday. Read More RIM, Microsoft ink licensing deal for media-focused file storage format Microsoft announced that it has reached a deal with troubled BlackBerry smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion that will see RIM gain access to the larger company's proprietary Extended File Allocation Table format. Read More Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage Within a few years, mobile access to cloud-based storage will be a "checkmark" feature that will be fairly ubiquitous among the major vendors, predicts 451 Research Group analyst Simon Anderson. We're not quite there yet, but more and more vendors are rolling out the feature. Read More
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