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  Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

  Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information

  The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted.

• Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

  Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing pressure as data centers move toward Ethernet for all data network traffic and SAS for hardware interconnects.

• DropBox adds photo auto-upload feature for cameras, smartphones

  On the heels of this week's Google Drive announcement, cloudstorage provider DropBox said it has expanded its automated photo and video upload service to include just about any device, including cameras.

• EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO

  EMC is in talks to acquire start-up XtremIO, a San Jose-based maker of all-flash arrays, according to a report in the Israeli business publication Globes.

• StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances

  StorSimple has introduced four cloud-connected storage appliances that offer better performance and more local capacity, the company said on Tuesday.

• Asavie launches pay-as-you-go VPN for iPad users

  Asavie Technologies today launched a SaaS-based VPN for iOS devices that provides remote access to corporate data .

• LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards

  LSI today announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the servers.

• As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself

  The 60th anniversary of IBM's digital tape is coming up in May. Oh yeah, and tape is dead. Or so industry pundits have declared, echoing similar prognostications for the mainframe.

• Five ways to prepare for Big Data with scale-out NAS

  As enterprises seek to move into the big data world -- digitizing paper documents and saving email communications, Word docs, Excel files and all sorts of other unstructured data with the hopes of mining them for actionable business intelligence -- they need to address a big problem up front: Storage.

• OCZ talks up 2TB, 4TB SSDs, previews Thunderbolt-enabled drive

  Solid-state drive maker OCZ this week revealed a slew of upcoming NAND flash products, including 2TB and 4TB drives as well as the first SSD using a Thunderbolt interconnect -- offering twice the throughput as SATA 3.0.

• How to Choose the Right NAS System for Your Business

  We've put together a list of the most desirable features below, grouped into several broad categories. You may not need everything mentioned, though it is hoped that this will help you arrive at a decision about the right NAS for your organization.

• EMC VNXe 3100: Sweet entry-level NAS and SAN

  EMC is easily the largest enterprise storage player on the planet, with more worldwide storage revenue than its two closest competitors (IBM and NetApp) combined. But no matter how popular EMC's high-end Symmetrix and VNX product lines have been with large customers, EMC was rarely considered a great choice for the small-to-midsize-business sector.

• Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5B, 6.2 petabytes

  In the last quarter of 2011, disk storage systems generated more than $8.5 billion in revenue, representing a 3.5% increase from the prior year's fourth quarter, according to research firm IDG. For all of 2011, disk storage systems grew 7.7%.