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• How VMware wants to reinvent the SAN

  VMware has released a virtual Storage Area Network (Virtual SAN), which the company says will usher in a new era of policy-driven and virtual machine-centric storage provisioning.

• MIT researchers resort to flash for Big Data storage

  An MIT research team next month will show off a networked system of flash storage devices they say beats relying on DRAM and networked hard disks to handle Big Data demands.

• 10 top tests of 2013

  Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area.

• Veeam: Backup, but for virtual machines

  The rise of virtualization has ushered in dramatic shifts in the computing landscape: Servers are more efficient and users can be more agile. But it's also created new challenges for backup and recovery.

• Father of DRAM presented with Kyoto Prize in electronics

  Robert Dennard, an IBM Fellow whose development of DRAM in the mid-1960s led to dramatic increases in digital information storage, this past weekend in Japan was presented with the Kyoto Prize in electronics.

• Ferromagnetics breakthrough could change storage as we know it

  A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials – and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage.

• 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

  Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.

• EMC touts VMAX Cloud Edition storage offering

  There's an increasingly competitive market for cloud storage options that are managed by providers but hosted on customer sites, providing the security of a behind-the-firewall storage option with the convenience of a managed hardware appliance.

• Panzura cloud storage controller gets NIST FIPS 140-2 certification for crypto

  Panzura, which provides what's called the Panzura Global Cloud Storage System for network-attached storage, backup and disaster recovery, today said its product has earned FIPS 140-2 validation for its encryption technology from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

• Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE

  Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach.

• Gartner: Top 10 cloud storage providers

  According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.

• Gartner: Cloud storage viable option, but proceed carefully

  Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says.

• Amazon Data Pipeline promises to ease management of data stored in multiple locations

  Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it.

• NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud

  Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud.

• STORE: Data storage holiday gift ideas

  If you're gadget fans like we are, all of this digital content creation leads us to need more places to store the stuff we're making.