Microsoft is making Big Data really small using DNA
Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage.
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Connector Systems boosts data storage offering with Infinio A/NZ distie deal
Connector Systems announces distribution agreement with Infinio for the New Zealand and Australia markets.
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Microsoft turns Cloud storage into Office 365 feature
Microsoft's decision to boost free storage space to one terabyte for Office 365 subscribers is less a game changer for the rent-not-own concept than additional evidence that storage is transforming from a separate service to a feature, analysts have argued.
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SanDisk and Toshiba team up to create 3D SSDs
Toshiba plans to demolish its No. 2 flash memory plant in Japan and replace it with a new facility where it and SanDisk will produce 3D NAND.
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SanDisk ships its first self-encrypting SSDs
SanDisk today announced its SanDisk X300s SSD line-up, which uses TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive hardware-based encryption, coupled with a new SSD administration dashboard.
Features about Data storage
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Read this before you buy another hard drive
It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable.
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RAM wars: RRAM vs. 3D NAND flash, and the winner is... us
While resistive RAM's chances of crowding out NAND flash anytime soon are slim, the coming RAM wars mean mobile users are likely to have hundreds of gigabytes, or even a terabyte, of storage at their fingertips.
