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• EMC sells Syncplicity to focus on core storage business

  EMC is selling its Syncplicity file-sharing and collaboration business to private investment company Skyview Capital for an undisclosed sum.

• Red Hat builds on its open source storage portfolio

  Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers.

• Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses

  Snowflake Computing announced Tuesday that its cloud-based data warehouse service is available to all users.

• 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.
  

• The Takeaway: SSD prices continue to fall for OEMs

  Average prices for 128GB solid-state drives (SSDs) hit something of a milestone in the second quarter of the year, falling to $50 for PC makers. And 256GB SSDs are now below the $100 mark.

• Pure says users can upgrade the same all-flash array for a decade

  Enterprise storage is a long-term bet. Pure Storage, a growing maker of all-flash arrays, is reshuffling the deck on that gamble in a way that might save IT departments time and money.

• Sony keeps optical discs alive with storage startup acquisition

  Sony's push to get enterprise users to store data on optical discs has received added momentum with its acquisition of a Facebook-linked startup focused on optical storage.

• Rubrik adds $41m in funding, releases backup appliance

  When a startup's $10 million in funding is followed two months later by a further $41 million, it's safe to say they're tapping into a trend. In the case of Rubrik, that trend is enterprise data management.

• New IBM OpenStack services support hybrid Cloud apps

  Building on its support for the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform, IBM this week unveiled a new slate of IBM Cloud OpenStack Services intended to help clients and developers integrate applications and data across hybrid Clouds - including public, private and local Cloud environments.

• 5 tech trends that will impact data centres in the future

  At Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney, research analyst, David Cappuccio, detailed new trends that are likely to impact IT operations and data centres of the future.

• IBM Cloud will reach back into tape for low-cost storage

  In the new world of cloud storage, there's still room for old standbys like tape. IBM says combining them can save enterprises money.

• Facebook's software smarts put cold storage on a power diet

  When it comes to storage, Facebook is learning to do more with less.

• EMC hopes to extend ViPR Controller's reach with open-source release

  EMC will release its ViPR Controller storage automation and control software as an open-source project, letting third parties develop their own services and applications on top of it and possibly make ViPR work with more parts of enterprise storage environments.

• VCE's VxRack systems want to be Vblocks for the next generation

  EMC's VCE division wants to take the engineered systems approach it's honed with its Vblocks into next-generation mobile and cloud applications.