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• Gartner: Top 10 cloud storage providers

  According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.

• Gartner: Cloud storage viable option, but proceed carefully

  Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says.

• Microsoft announces "me too" Cloud price drop for Azure

  Microsoft is the latest to drop the price of its Cloud computing services, following two price cuts each by Google and Amazon Web Services.

• Amazon Data Pipeline promises to ease management of data stored in multiple locations

  Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it.

• NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud

  Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud.

• STORE: Data storage holiday gift ideas

  If you're gadget fans like we are, all of this digital content creation leads us to need more places to store the stuff we're making.

• MIT beats the rush, names Dropbox CEO as 2013 commencement speaker

  Colleges and universities typically don't announce commencement speakers until the spring, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology got a jump on things this week by announcing that Dropbox CEO and 2005 MIT grad Drew Houston would be doing the honors in 2013.

• Teen CEO launches storage startup; catches Facebook's eye

  Just a few years ago, Andrew Mayhall had to decide whether to continue his unique education or drop out of school to start his own server company. Now, he's mulling another major decision - whether to continue discussions about potentially selling that company and working for Facebook, or to follow the entrepreneurial path Facebook's founder laid out when he was around Mayhall's age.

• 7 hot storage startups to watch

  As the sheer amount of content on the Web has continued to increase exponentially, so too have the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/network-storage.html">storage</a> needs of large enterprises.

• Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

  Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.

• Getting the most out of flash storage

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• How we tested data deduplication

  A Windows 2008R2 server was attached to a Compellent Storage Center S30 SAN with two volumes, both created from snapshots of a production server volume several months apart. Netbackup 7.0 was installed on the server. 

• SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key

  This vendor-written tech primer is submitted on the behalf of the NVMe Promoter Group, which is backed by Cisco, Dell, EMC, IDT, Intel, Micron, NetApp, Oracle, SandForce, and STEC. Readers should note it favors the NVMe's approach.

• Startup targets flash memory latency

  Plenty of hardware vendors are pushing out Solid State Disk products to speed up data access. Now a startup is emerging from stealth mode with server software designed to make it easier to use SSD with existing storage systems and applications.

• Move over flash: Here comes phase-change memory

  University of California, San Diego researchers next week plan to demonstrate a solid state storage device that uses phase-change memory to blow away traditional hard drives and even newer flash drives.