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Keyword: News EMC announced a revamp of its entire product line, dropping its midrange Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS systems for a new combined VNX array that offers both file and block-level Storage through a number of data transport protocols. Internap is offering a new public cloud Storage service that it built using software from OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project kicked off last year by Rackspace and NASA. EMC announced upgrades to its line of Data Domain deduplication arrays, doubling performance, as well as a new online data archive deduplication device. Marking the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the JFK Library Foundation unveiled the nation’s largest online digitized presidential archive, including global access to papers, records, photographs and recordings from his presidency. A huge decline in memory prices could hurt DRAM vendors this year, with overall revenue projected to decline by 11.8% in 2011, research firm IHS iSuppli said in a study released Wednesday. After years of quietly milking its TCP/IP offload technology for revenue through licensing agreements, Alacritech has re-emerged to introduce its first file server acceleration appliance, which boasts the ability to improve performance by three or more times. ioSafe’s Rugged Portable hard drive launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week withstood drops, submersion and even blasts from a 12-gauge shot gun. An Intel executive on Friday said that its Light Peak interconnect technology, designed to link PCs to devices like displays and external Storage, is ready for implementation. iPad 2 mockups from accessory manufacturers at CES show a device with 128GB of capacity, which could allow the tablet to encroach even further into laptop territory. A former EMC testing engineer has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole about $930,000 worth of equipment from the company’s Apex, North Carolina, plant. Storage In Depth Working 200 feet underground in an abandoned limestone mine, Hans Jensen of Iron Mountain carefully digitizes a film of President Kennedy for uploading to a new online archive. Though it’s limited to partition recovery operations (damaged or overwritten), Active@ Partition Recovery could be all you need to recover your data. In some cases, when the only portion of the hard drive that’s damaged (or overwritten) is the partition table, simply restoring a partition will magically bring back all your data. Actually, the data isn’t brought back–it was there all along, but without any OS-recognizable indication to its existence. Recovering the partition just makes it possible to see it again. InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best products at the forefront of today’s top data center, desktop, mobile, and programming trends The Computer History Museum’s new 25,000 square-foot exhibit entitled “Computer History: The First 2,000 Years” opened this week and includes media and artifact-rich galleries with an in-depth focus on more than 20 major areas of computer history. In addition, a Web-based Cyber Museum experience will feature a broad and compelling interpretation of computing history, the museum’s extensive digital archive and its warehoused collection of artifacts. Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips, 4G smartphones, Android-based tablets, PCs that support USB 3.0, and smaller and cheaper SSDs will all be featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Rasha1997 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if he should use Windows’ own defragging tool, a third-party defragger, or just not bother. Apple’s quiet enterprise ascendance, looming ERP-like disasters in health care, the solution to a big security hole, and more didn’t get the media attention they deserved — until now The No. 5 top sleeper tech story of 2010 The No. 9 top sleeper tech story of 2010 Storage technology has evolved faster than microprocessors over the past five decades, and it’s been a bigger building block of the Internet — and of today’s ever-expanding ‘cloud’ — than most people realize. Storage White Papers The methods used to accomplish data deduplication vary widely, as do the levels of capacity optimization they provide. Read this report to better… This report is a must-read for companies struggling to back up their newly virtualized server environments. Read this brief to get real-world case… This report describes the state of the green data center: why the challenge is very real, what technologies exist today to counter that… UIC Medical School cut its backup window by 50%. 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