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• EMC's XtremIO gets bigger, packs in more flash

  EMC says enterprises like its XtremIO all-flash storage array, so in version 4.0, the company is offering more of it.

• Working towards the green data centre

  With the amount of energy now required to power the world’s data centres, the consumption policies and strategies surrounding them are becoming rather critical to organisations hoping to achieve sustainability and remain competitive.

• HDS big-data tools should help IT, mobile health workers

  Hitachi Data Systems is aiming its big-data expertise at health care and enterprise IT departments with specialized products for combining types of information.

• Huawei eyes US enterprise market despite political challenges

  Past political trouble in the U.S. isn't stopping Huawei Technologies from selling its enterprise services in the country.

• Box wants to be a platform for easy-to-write enterprise apps

  A developer edition of Box will allow enterprises to build applications on top of the company's content collaboration and sharing capabilities without using the Box user interface or requiring users to have a Box account.

• EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys

  Some enterprises that are happy to put their data in a public cloud prefer to keep the keys to that data under their own control. That's the message online file sync and sharing services are sending lately.

• Tech pros' favorite tools increase IT efficiency

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• Go-to storage and disaster recovery products

  LEAF Commercial Capital used to wrestle with tape backups for disaster recovery. Now the equipment leasing and finance company is using a software-based service from Evolve IP for disaster recovery.

• IBM, Fujifilm show tape storage still has a long future

  IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology's strengths as a long-term storage medium.

• Bit by bit, Intel looks to quadruple SSD storage

  With all the photos, videos, apps and tunes you have, the storage on your smartphone may not be enough. With that in mind, Intel is researching new ways to up the storage capacity in mobile devices and PCs without hurting the size or price of devices.

• USB Type-C peripherals are on the way, and storage devices are first up

  With Apple's latest MacBook and Google's newest Chromebook just out and featuring the new USB Type-C connector, we're on the lookout for peripherals that use the interface, and storage devices appear to be first out of the gate.

• Mobile storage about to balloon with new 3D flash chips from Intel and Micron

  Smartphones, tablets and PCs are about to get a whole lot more storage capacity thanks to new 3D flash chips from Intel and Micron that cram more bits into a smaller space.

• Startup Rubrik goes all-in-one with backup appliance

  All-in-one boxes are hot in data centers, and the concept is starting to expand into backup and recovery.

• EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data lakes

  EMC is drawing on its "federation" of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualisation and Pivotal Big Data smarts.

• Huawei multiplies partnerships with software and service providers

  Chinese telecommunications and networking equipment giant Huawei Technologies is partnering left, right and center at Cebit as it seeks to more firmly establish itself in Europe.