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• 19 October 2011

• News: Former Apple iPhone exec Papermaster becomes CTO at AMD

  Advanced Micro Devices has appointed former Apple iPhone development chief Mark Papermaster as chief technology officer, where he will take charge of developing AMD's future microprocessors and hardware.

• 18 October 2011

• Opinion: Cloud Storage Rivals Innovate to Meet iCloud Challenge

  Last week Apple made the cloud cool with the launch of iCloud. Apple's iCloud is certainly not the first cloud syncing and storage service, but the Apple stamp of approval moves the concept from cutting edge fringe into the tech mainstream. Cloud storage rivals are ready to take advantage of the spotlight on cloud syncing and storage, and go head to head with iCloud with new offers and services of their own.

• News: The challenges of managing mountains of information

  If you think the storage systems in your data centers are out of control, imagine having 449 billion objects in your database, or having to add 40 terabytes of new data each week.

• News: Jazz Montreux Festival plans 1.2PB archive for 40 years of music

  The Jazz Montreux Festival will soon offer four decades of performances from artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sting, BB King and Led Zeppelin to students and the public through an object-based storage system.

• News: Western Digital extends suspension of operations in Thailand

  Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the possibility of a global shortage of hard disk drives (HDD) in the current quarter.

• News: Viking combines DRAM module with flash for auto backup

  Viking Technology announced a new memory module that combines DRAM, NAND flash and a super capacitor to automatically backup data in the event of a power failure.

• 17 October 2011

• News: Dell ends 10-year reseller relationship with EMC

  Dell announced it has ended a decadelong reseller relationship with EMC this month through which it sold more than a billion dollars worth of midrange and entry-level storage products.

• Opinion: Sextuple Your Hard Drive's Capacity With a Pinch of Salt

  Scientists at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have discovered that sodium chloride (that is, table salt) could be the key to dramatically increasing the storage capacity of hard drives.

• How-Tos: Build Your Own Network-Attached Storage System

  With cheap storage readily available, the temptation to build vast libraries of music, movies, photos, and documents is ever present. But when each PC in your home is packed to its aluminum gills with gigabytes upon gigabytes of digital goods, managing all of that data can be a hassle.

• News: NEC says new technology doubles lithium battery life

  NEC said Monday that it has developed a new lithium-ion battery technology that doubles the life span of conventional models.

• 14 October 2011

• News: iPhone 4S teardowns reveal A5 processor

  Preliminary teardowns of Apple's iPhone 4S have confirmed what rumors claimed for months: The new smartphone is powered by the same dual-core processor used in the iPad 2.

• News: Table salt found to boost data storage density

  The National University of Singapore and the Data Storage Institute have come up with a way to use NaCl (salt) to increase bit storage density on hard drive platters to 3.3 Tbit/in. or more than five times what a Seagate 4TB hard drive has today.

• How-Tos: How to install a new graphics card in an old PC

  One reader wanted to install a graphics card in the spare PCI Express x16 slot in his PC. Our Helproom Expert explained the options.

• News: SNIA releases storage power efficiency specification

  The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) has released a new vendor neutral efficiency measurement specification.

• 13 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to recover data from your hard drive

  If your hard drive is on its last legs, here are a few things you can try at home before opening your wallet and paying for a professional recovery.

• News: AMD's Bulldozer Packs Plenty Of Cores, But Not Enough Power

  Earlier this year Intel made waves with its Sandy Bridge processors, which served up impressive performance gains over their predecessors while improving energy efficiency. AMD’s return salvo is finally here in the form of the AMD FX platform, previously codenamed Bulldozer.

• News: Avastor XMR Mobile RAID Drive offers on-the-go speed

  Avastor’s latest RAID array, the XMR Mobile RAID Drive, offers an easy-to-carry design, multiple connection ports, and transfer speeds that closely rival other portable arrays.

• News: Cloud Service Will Back Up Your Facebook, Mobile Phone

  Cloud backup services have existed for years, and if you’re just looking to back up the files on your computer, you have plenty of options to choose from. But more and more of the files we want backed up the most are on our mobile devices or online where traditional backup tools aren’t helpful.

• News: SOS Online Backup launches cloud backup for Facebook, devices

  SOS Online Backup today announced a cloud backup service for Facebook, mobile devices and desktop computers that allows web-based access to files as well as unlimited multiple versions of those files.

• News: Thailand floods may affect global electronics production

  Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspending operations.

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