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• Samsung releases MLC-based SSDs for data centers

  Samsung on Tuesday released its first solid state drive (SSD) built with consumer-class NAND flash but targeted for use in enterprise-class storage systems.

• Hitachi unveils 500GB, razor-thin laptop hard drive

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced the industry's highest density, single-platter hard disk drive that has an areal density of 636Gbit/inch, almost 100Gbit per square inch more than its closest competitor.

• Tasmanian Government to upgrade data centres

  The Tasmanian Government is set to close one data centre and tender for a new facility as its current setup is over capacity.

• HP to retain ATO centralised computing contract

  HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, has picked up the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) centralised computing contract.

• Seagate debuts fast green drive

  Seagate has introduced a new high-speed, eco-friendly hard drive for low-power personal computers. The 3.5-inch desktop drive spins at 5900 RPM and includes the company's SmartAlign technology.

• Queensland DCS greenlights new tape media

  A mixture of backup devices caused by a merger in March 2009 has led the Queensland Department of Community Safety to source new tape media.
  

• IBM chooses MLC-based SSDs for its midrange, high-end arrays

  IBM has selected STEC solid state drives (SSDs) based on consumer flash memory for use in its midrange and high-end storage arrays, the maker of SSD technologies for OEMs said today.

• Wikileaks attacks prove the Cloud is reliable

  It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant questions about the rush into cloud services.

• Toshiba announces its first enterprise-class SSD line

  Toshiba announced its first enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs), which boast data transfer rates of up to 510MB/sec.

• Secure flash drives lock down your data

  Hollywood makes secure flash storage look easy. If the bad guy steals a thumb drive, it either blows up or some secret counterintelligence agency marshals the nation's resources in a no-holds-barred data hunt -- most likely with Bruce Willis or Tommy Lee Jones working the streets. If the good guy steals the drive, it goes to a special-needs, special-deeds sidekick in a basement somewhere who cracks the code in 5 minutes.

• Seagate releases first 1TB 2.5-in enterprise hard drive

  Seagate today announced the industry's first 2.5-in enterprise-class drive with 1TB of capacity, or about 60 per cent more could be stored previously.

• Solid state drives no better than others, survey says

  Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as <unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across models, 2.05 percent of SSDs got returned as non-functioning, compared to 1.94 percent of hard disks.

• Fearing more Wikileaks, military bans DVDs, thumb drives

  Removable media such as CDs, DVDs and USB drives are no longer allowed on classified military computers.

• If Dell buys Compellent, it loses EMC partnership

  After losing a drawn-out bidding war to Hewlett-Packard to acquire storage vendor 3Par earlier this year, Dell re-opened its coffers in a bid to acquire Compellent Technologies, hoping the company will be the answer to its midrange storage area network (SAN) needs.

• Dell in talks to buy storage vendor Compellent

  Dell said Thursday it is in advanced talks with storage vendor Compellent Technologies regarding a merger that would call for Dell to pay US$27.50 per share, or roughly $876 million, for the company.