External disk storage market recovers from slump

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	External disk storage market recovers from slump The market for external disk storage systems has recovered from a slump, with factory revenues up 2.4 percent to US$6.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to an IDC study. Read More 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 In this Issue Review: Netgear's ReadyData makes a splash with flash Microsoft reaches RTM milestone for Windows 8.1 update Inside Cisco's private cloud Revisiting Cisco's newest data center US funding for key IT research programs could be slashed Seagate preps large-capacity storage drives for tablets Internet pranked by 'Facebook for Drunks' app Readers react to RadioShack closing 1,110 stores WHITE PAPER: Crittercism The 2013 Mobile App Performance Management Report Most enterprises are looking for ways to leverage their investments in web technology to handle mobile app performance, but between monitoring, OS variants, screen sizes and OEMs, this can be a costly and complex approach. This 2013 Mobile APM Report highlights best practices for meeting mobile app challenges and ensuring mobile app performance. Read more! Review: Netgear's ReadyData makes a splash with flash Netgear's better, faster rack-mount NAS and iSCSI SAN makes the case for enterprise workloads with read and write caching and unlimited snapshots Read More Microsoft reaches RTM milestone for Windows 8.1 update Microsoft has reached a critical milestone for its next update to Windows 8, which is slated to ship early next month, according to reports. Read More WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry (Research In Motion | RIM) Secure, Centralized, Simple: Multi-platform EMM BYOD, corporate-issued, or a mix. Manage all the mobile platforms and devices in your enterprise through a single pane of glass. Learn More Inside Cisco's private cloud Do private clouds work? Read More Revisiting Cisco's newest data center We were last in Cisco's new data center in Allen, Texas, in the fall of 2010 when the company was just putting the finishing touches on the 160,000 square foot building with 35,000 square feet of "raised floor" (they still use that lingo even though this facility doesn't use raised floors). Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems, Cisco, & NetApp FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop The trend toward virtualization and cloud computing continues to gain momentum among IT organizations. To meet the challenges of today's IT organizations, NetApp, Cisco and Citrix created a pre-configured and validated virtual desktop solution that is self-contained and easy to deploy. Learn more US funding for key IT research programs could be slashed While the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may get more money in 2015 to study sensors and robots for use in warfare, the hot area of cognitive computing research could lose out. Read More Seagate preps large-capacity storage drives for tablets Seagate Technology thinks the storage capacity could be larger in tablets, most of which come with a relatively small amount of native storage. Read More Internet pranked by 'Facebook for Drunks' app A social network that caters exclusively to drunks and requires actual Breathalyzer proof of drunkenness using an actual Breathalyzer to log in? Must be a joke, right? Of course it's a joke, but that hasn't stopped The Internet - including a number of tech news sites - from taking this "social network" seriously, or the "founders" from promising to make a splash at the SXSW extravaganza kicking off... Read More Readers react to RadioShack closing 1,110 stores Yesterday I posted a personal anecdote in response to the news that RadioShack would be closing 1,100 stores in the U.S. ... and a handful of readers reacted with stories of their own in comments: 'Just an annex for cell phone companies' Read More
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