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• Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says

  Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.

• Samsung mass produces 1.4GB/s PCIe flash cards

  Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput.

• Nationwide makes SSDs standard on PCs, to employee applause

  Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

• The new MacBook Air gets a 45 per cent performance boost with PCIe flash

  Apple has slipped new superfast PCIe flash into its thinnest of thin notebooks -- the new MacBook Air models released on Monday

• Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops

  With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.

• HP adds purpose-built all-flash array to 3Par lineup

  Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.

• External server disk storage sales drop for first time since 2009, says IDC

  Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC.

• Intel shows 'world's fastest thumb drive'

  Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports.

• Dell combines faster and cheaper SSDs in one box, with automatic tiering

  Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs.

• Translational Research Institute upgrades storage for medical research

  Brisbane-based Translational Research Institute (TRI) has implemented a new high performance computing (HPC) storage system to help with medical research into cancer and HIV treatment.

• Dell, Oracle form strategic partnership for integrated systems

  Dell and Oracle will integrate hardware and software for customers through a strategic partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday.

• Copying grows along with data, driving attempts to rein it in

  All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies.

• WD ships its slimmest 1TB laptop hard drive

  After announcing a 5mm high series of drives earlier this year, WD said it is now shipping the world's highest capacity 7mm-high laptop drive with up to 1TB of storage.

• Box buys iOS app to improve its own

  Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.

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  As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the Cloud

  As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the Cloud.