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• 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.

• The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked

  In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts.

• Dropbox dives deeper into the enterprise

  Dropbox has beefed up its Dropbox for Business product as the organisation looks to make greater inroads in the enterprise market.
  

• 150 years after Lincoln assassination, massive online archive goes live

  As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination approaches, a massive online archive has gone live containing 99,525 documents related to the Civil War-era commander-in-chief.

• There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive

  Malware intentionally created by the U.S. National Security Agency to infect personal computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) cannot be detected by antivirus programs.

• SanDisk enters the auto industry, sets sights on wearables

  SanDisk today announced its first automotive grade NAND flash devices for next-generation 'connected cars' and auto infotainment systems.

• Building a healthy storage array

  A storage area network (SAN) crash two years ago was the catalyst for a long rebuild process at Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home.

• Seagate wireless drive can now stream to Roku set-top box

  Seagate announced today Roku set-top boxes will now have a channel to connect to Wireless Plus hard drives for streaming movies, music and photos stored on the drives.

• 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.

• 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.

• Google slashes Drive prices by as up to 80%

  Google announced Thursday that it is dramatically cutting its prices for its cloud storage service by as much as 80%.

• Microsoft kills SkyDrive, launches OneDrive

  Three weeks after announcing OneDrive as the new label for SkyDrive, Microsoft today activated the renamed storage service, and offered some new incentives that give customers more space.

• Iron Mountain fire in Buenos Aires kills 9, destroys corporate records

  A massive fire at Iron Mountain's Buenos Aires archive facility caused a wall to collapse on nine firefighters, killing them; seven others were injured.

• Graphene sticky notes to offer 32GB capacity you can write on

  A design concept being floated by dataSTICKIES uses wafer-thin graphene USB thumb drives that you can write on, peel off and stick anywhere for real on-the-go capacity.

• Online backup service SugarSync moves to paid-only model

  SugarSync, which has offered 5GB of free capacity since its founding, today announced it will only offer that as a trial and that all capacity after the trial will have to be paid for.