Lucas Mearian

The company's new NewBackup 5000 can de-duplicate up to 4.3TB of data per hour. Symantec also introduced single instancing for e-mail archive

The new integrated SSD for ultra thin devices weighs less than one gram and offers up to 64GB capacity. The company said the products represent a new category of embedded drives that offer higher capacities and performance than existing storage technologies

The EcoGreen F4 hard drive is Samsung's most eco-friendly model, meeting all RoHS requirements. The new drive includes a 3.0 Gbit/sec SATA interface, Native Command Queuing and a 32MB buffer memory

Emprise 9000 array comes with thin provisioning, and scales from two to 12 controllers

Atmos offering could have pitted the storage vendor against its service provider customers, analysts said. EMC started Atmos Online just over a year ago

The new drives will be used in PCs, laptops, video cameras and set top boxes. Hitachi said the hard drives are 26 per cent thinner than those found in most laptops and netbooks

Social networking sites for some companies are way too valuable as sales tools to block usage. But they raise important legal issues

The lack of internal storage on tablet devices will push users to online backup and synchronization services, an analyst firm says. This is leading some online cloud storage providers to hype their offerings to iPad and Slate users