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• Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD

  Micron Technology Inc. today said it is shipping what it calls the fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) on the market.

• Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off

  Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

• 'Cyberchondriacs' jump to almost one-third of all adults

  The number of adults using the Internet to find health-related information leaped from 154 million in 2009 to 175 million this year, according to a Harris Interactive poll released today. It's the largest year-over-year increase since the poll began in 1998.

• Data retention strategies causing IT mistakes: Survey

  Most enterprises know a formal data retention plan is important, but only half have one in place which is leading to informantion management mistakes, according to a new survey of IT and legal professionals.

• Kingston announces its first water-cooled RAM

  Kingston Technology Co. today announced the release of its first water-cooled DDR3 memory kit for PCs, which it said provides longer-term reliability.

• Samsung unveils its densest 2TB desktop hard drive

  Samsung Electronics Co. today announced what it's calling the world's highest-density hard disk drive for desktop systems.

• Public clouds open data storage services: analyst

  Data storage services are becoming available in public clouds with the move set to cut enterprise IT costs and make life easier for CIOs trying to best utilise cloud computing.

• Blu-ray disc capacities jump to 100GB

  The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data.

• SanDisk Launches its Smallest-Ever USB Flash Drive

  Memory maker SanDisk has ousted its latest USB flash drive, claiming it's the smallest that the company has ever released.

• EMC releases new midrange deduplication array

  EMC announced three new products, including a new midrange Data Domain deduplication appliance, a new disk archive system with deduplication for mainfames and a disk library series with arrays that scale from 8TB to 1.4PB.

• Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue

  A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resolve issues before dispatching hardware to customers, it said on Thursday.

• Samsung intros 1TB drive for notebooks, other gadgetry

  Samsung Tuesday announced its new 1TB Spinpoint MT2 2.5-inch internal hard drive.

• Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks

  Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the amount of storage capacity enterprises need, for an undisclosed sum.

• Imperva adds NAS firewall to line-up

  Security company Imperva has announced a software firewall that protects and monitors access to files sitting on network-attached storage (NAS) servers.

• Toshiba, SanDisk look to boost flash production

  Toshiba Corp. announced today that it has started construction on a new NAND flash chip fabrication facility - dubbed Fab 5 -- at its Yokkaichi City Operations in Japan. The facility, a joing venture with long-time business partner SanDisk Corp., will turn out about 210,000 NAND wafers a month when it becomes fully operational.