Disk storage market shows anemic growth

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	Disk storage market shows anemic growth The total disk storage systems market barely grew in the second quarter at a 0.3 percent year-over-year increase, with a continued drop in high-end storage sales, according to research firm IDC.During the quarter, the disk storage market raked in US$7.8 billion in revenue, on internal storage sales coming from the Asia Pacific region, and emerging markets, IDC said in a report on Friday.High-end storage sales, however, fell for the fourth consecutive quarter. At the same time, midrange storage sales also dropped in the period, signaling that “weak demand is spreading to other parts of the market,” said IDC analyst Eric Sheppard in the report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : McAfee Needle in a Datastack Report The volume of security-related data today can make identifying a threat like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yet collecting more data also plays a transformational role in information security. Organizations need to learn how to harness and sift through this wealth of information to protect themselves from the threats they face every day. 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Learn more Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon Chef 12 now interfaces with Amazon's block storage and Microsoft's configuration management software Read More Beefier servers pack more storage, DDR4 memory Chasing data-center trends, top server makers have made storage and memory capacity a priority in their new servers.Servers with Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v3 server chips, code-named Grantley, were announced by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM Monday. The servers were announced on the same day Intel debuted the chips, which are based on the Haswell microarchitecture.Intel has cranked up the core count to 18 on the new server chips, an improvement from 12 cores in predecessors. IBM said the new 18-core chip helps deliver 59 percent better database performance and 61 percent better virtualization performance than its predecessor, the E5-2600 v2 chip, which shipped last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More EMC CEO defends federated business model, debunks storage myths EMC CEO Joe Tucci talks about his company's federated business model's value for IT leaders and debunks what he views as nonsense being spewed by newcomers to the storage market. (computerworld.com)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Inc. Secure the Use of Portable Media in Critical Infrastructure Securing critical infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that our current way of life is sustained. Our whitepaper provides insight into the development of strong security policies around the use of portable media, and how to effectively mitigate the threat from external sources. Learn more Hyperbole alert: Apple news to be 'historic' ABC News last night on its broadcast and this morning on its website is promising us that today’s gadget announcements by Apple will be “historic.”Historic how? As in World War II, moon landing, 9/11 historic?What could possibly make this Apple product announcement – or any gadget announcement, for that matter -- historic?Well, let’s use our imaginations: We might learn that the iPhone 6 will double as a teleportation device. Apple’s new smartwatch could extend the day from 24 to 25 hours. Steve Jobs walks out on stage. That would be historic. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Intel wants to modernize data centers with new Xeon server chips Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features.The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips are the company’s fastest server chips to date, said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, at a media event in San Francisco on Monday.The chips are based on the Haswell microarchitecture and will replace the Xeon E5-2600 v2 chips, code-named Romley, which accounted for more than 80 percent of Intel server chips shipped in the most recent fiscal quarter.Servers will deliver faster performance while consuming less power thanks to a number of CPU, storage, memory and networking enhancements, Bryant said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More At Home or Work, Box's Identity is No Crisis At BoxWorks, Box CEO Aaron Levie and SVP of Engineering Sam Schillace detailed how the cloud storage company is focused on getting its core platform to more places. 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Riverbed teases with free SteelStore offering Riverbed announced today that customers can now use the virtual edition of the company’s SteelStore storage appliance for free, bundling the product with six months of Amazon S3 cloud storage (at 8TB per month of volume) on the house.SteelStore is Riverbed’s cloud storage front-end, offering streamlined management capabilities, as well as compression, deduplication and encryption, with the aim of unifying a customer’s storage infrastructure under a single banner.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Mapping the cloud: Where does the public cloud actually live? | NTT tests 400Gbps optical technology for Internet backbone +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More AT&T and Box to pave secure path to cloud content via VPN Box and AT&T plan to lock down cloud file-sharing with a service that places enterprise content behind an AT&T VPN.The service, announced at the BoxWorks conference on Thursday and coming in the first half of next year, extends AT&T’s NetBond technology to Box. It will be able to work in conjunction with the carrier’s Toggle software, which separates business from personal content on mobile devices. Toggle with Box is scheduled to ship early next year.Both should help Box’s cloud-based storage and collaboration technologies meet security demands at some enterprises. Like other Box services, they are designed to let employees share documents, images, presentations and other material with colleagues on any type of networked device. In that sense, the new joint offerings are potential drivers for BYOD (bring-your-own-device) strategies within enterprises.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Apple CEO says iCloud security will be strengthened Apple, still reeling from the nude celebrity photo incident, plans to soon strengthen security around its iCloud storage service, according to CEO Tim Cook in a news report Thursday.The change consists primarily of new warnings when certain changes are made to an account, as well as implementation of two-factor authentication on iCloud accounts, Cook told The Wall Street Journal.iCloud accounts for more than a dozen celebrities were compromised by hackers who obtained their login credentials, possibly by guessing security questions or using password-breaking tools. The subsequent release of nude photos put Apple on the defense, with the company maintaining that its systems were not breached.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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