Tuesday, April 14, 2015

IBM, Fujifilm show tape storage still has a long future

Microsoft, Dropbox push partnership with browser-based Office integration | 5 Things you need to know about Amazon's cloud announcements

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IBM, Fujifilm show tape storage still has a long future
IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology's strengths as a long-term storage medium.The prototype Fujifilm tape and accompanying drive technology from IBM labs packs 88 times as much data onto a tape as industry-standard LTO-6 (Linear Tape-Open) systems using the same size cartridge, IBM says. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More


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Microsoft, Dropbox push partnership with browser-based Office integration
Microsoft and Dropbox yesterday expanded the links between Office and online storage, delivering on pledges made last November when they inked their partnership Read More


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5 Things you need to know about Amazon's cloud announcements
Amazon Web Services held a summit today in San Francisco where it announced a handful of new features for its IaaS cloud.News included: Amazon Machine Learning This is a new product for AWS that allows users to import data from other AWS storage products – like S3, RedShift and RDS – and create visual representations of the data, including predictive modeling.More information: Amazon Machine Learning Amazon Elastic File System Another new product for AWS, this one is a complement to the company’s other storage services (S3, Glacier, EBS) but is made specifically as an enterprise file system. It uses the NSFv4 and is based on an SSD-backed platform.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More


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Dropbox, Microsoft Office Online partnership extends to the Web
The ties between Dropbox and Microsoft Office tightened Thursday: The two services now integrate with each other. If this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it should: Dropbox and Office began their integration path with the Office apps for Android and iOS, and now have moved to the Web. What this means, quite simply, is that Office users have a choice of service to save their Office Online documents—either to Microsoft's own OneDrive service, or else to Dropbox cloud storage. Likewise, if you open a document within Dropbox's Web service, you'll now have the option to edit it within Office Online.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

Brocade switch extends SDN, campus automation
Brocade this week unveiled a campus switch and other enhancements to better support video and wireless traffic, improve management and extend software defined networking.The new switch is the ICX 7250. It supports up to eight 10G Ethernet ports for uplinks or stacking, and can be stacked 12-high into a virtual chassis supporting 576 Gigabit Ethernet and 96 10G ports.Brocade says this density will enable campus networks to better support bandwidth-intensive video and wireless traffic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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