Review: Box beats Dropbox -- and all the rest -- for business

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	Review: Box beats Dropbox -- and all the rest -- for business Box trumps Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep reporting, and enterprise integration Read More     RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Silver Peak Scared to Miss your RPO? Calculate how to easily meet your recovery point objective with Silver Peak Velocity Replication Acceleration (VRX) software. This software allows storage professionals to increase replication throughput, maximize available bandwidth, and replicate over long distances by overcoming transport latency. Calculate your RPO Now In this Issue Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile Father of DRAM presented with Kyoto Prize in electronics Seagate releases industry's thinnest 2TB laptop drive Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives What is Pivotal? EMC and VMware want it to be your platform for building big data apps EMC's Syncplicity service tightens controls on shared files Internet Archive seeking donations after fire Geek-themed Meme of the Week: YouTube/Google+ Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: SAP Transition to the 3rd Platform for Enterprise Applications The tech industry is in the midst of a major transition brought about by the combination of four forces. Since the lifetime of an application software package in a business is significant, application buyers need to consider support for the 3rd Platform. Learn more Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile Companies will face next year emerging threats in cloud data storage that will demand security measures that go far beyond what is offered by service providers, a university report says. Read More Father of DRAM presented with Kyoto Prize in electronics Robert Dennard, an IBM Fellow whose development of DRAM in the mid-1960s led to dramatic increases in digital information storage, this past weekend in Japan was presented with the Kyoto Prize in electronics. Read More Seagate releases industry's thinnest 2TB laptop drive     Seagates Samsung HDD division today announced it is shipping the industrys thinnest 2TB 2.5-in drive. It's intended for laptops and external storage. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! 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 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 What is Pivotal? EMC and VMware want it to be your platform for building big data apps Pivotal is a company to watch. The spin-out being led by former VMware chief Paul Maritz has assembled technology from EMC and VMware as well as a variety of open source platforms. Pivotal wants to be the place where enterprises build big data analytics apps for cloud-like infrastructures. To do that, Pivotal offers a variety of application development tools, data management products, and analytics... Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More. EMC's Syncplicity service tightens controls on shared files EMC will give users of its Syncplicity file-sharing and synchronization service more control over how their data can be accessed and used, including the ability to make files "time out" on a certain date wherever they may be stored. Read More     Internet Archive seeking donations after fire A fire early yesterday morning did $600,000 damage to digitization equipment at the Internet Archive's scanning center in San Francisco ... and the organization is seeking donations to help it replace what was lost. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1996 to build an Internet library and is perhaps most famous for the Wayback Machine. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: YouTube/Google+ Edition No. 21 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series represents the nascent backlash to the overwhelming backlash against Google's decision to require YouTube commenters to sign in using Google+ accounts. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": Read More Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More
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