Data storage -- then and now

	Secure file sharing in the cloud made simple | Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015
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	Data storage -- then and now As size of storage drives shrink, capacity increases -- dramatically. Here is a look at how data storage it has changed over the last six decades. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc SMB Disaster Recovery Strategies Small and midsize businesses are finding a silver lining in cloud communications. Geographical diversity in communications and backup can keep a business up and running no matter the disaster so long as one employee can access a mobile phone or the Internet. Learn how to get your company back in business during a disaster. Learn more >> In this Issue Secure file sharing in the cloud made simple Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015 Google shrinks Drive cloud storage prices How VMware wants to reinvent the SAN How to Build a Storage and Backup Strategy for Your Small Business Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Gandalf Edition Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: IBM Pay-as-you-Grow Data Protection IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery gives small and medium businesses the opportunity to start out with only the individual solutions they need, and add new functionalities as they grow. Read Now Secure file sharing in the cloud made simple Many enterprises want to use cloud services for file storage and sharing but are hesitant because the cloud provider may be able to access the content. AlephCloud has a service that encrypts files at their creation source. Read More Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015 Supercomputing speed is typically boosted by adding more processors, but two new systems funded by the National Science Foundation due to go live next January will take an unconventional approach to speed up calculations and data analysis. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Simplify and Consolidate Data Protection for Better Results Learn how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center simplifies user experience and speeds problem resolution. Read Now Google shrinks Drive cloud storage prices Google has slashed the price of some Drive plans, as it battles Microsoft, Dropbox, Box and others in the red-hot cloud storage market. Read More How VMware wants to reinvent the SAN VMware has released a virtual Storage Area Network (Virtual SAN), which the company says will usher in a new era of policy-driven and virtual machine-centric storage provisioning. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Streamline Data Protection with Storage Manager IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) has been an industry-standard data protection solution for two decades. But, where most competitors focus exclusively on Backup and Restore, TSM is a far more comprehensive data-protection solution. Read Now How to Build a Storage and Backup Strategy for Your Small Business Today's businesses generate more data than ever before. Luckily, storage technology is correspondingly cheaper and more plentiful than ever before. This means your small business has work to do if you want to build an effective storage and backup strategy. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Gandalf Edition No. 35 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, harvested from the Internet, represents the debut of Gandalf and his software wizardry. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": And if you'd like me to consider one that you've found - or created - please feel free to send it to me at buzz@nww.com. 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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