The Momentus XT drive is up to three times faster than a traditional HDD, says Seagate.
Besides shrinking physical storage requirements, deduplication also makes disk backup faster and economically feasible, says HP.
Although most businesses have lost confidential data because of missing USBs, many do not regulate their use, study finds.
While hard disk drives are in short supply, solid state drives are expected to be a promising alternative.
The digital universe cracked the zettabyte barrier in 2010 and may reach 1.8ZB this year, says Western Digital.
Pogoplug Cloud will compete against iCloud and DropBox, and offers users free storage just for signing up.
The system is designed to manage the input-output bottlenecks inherent in virtualised workloads.
The converged platform will help users manage and analyse large amounts of critical data.
The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8700 S2 is purpose-built for environments with multiple open systems and virtualised infrastructures.
The strategy is based around renting software and hardware to customers wanting to build private clouds.
The unified storage solution has won CRN's 2011 Tech Innovator award in the storage category.
The P10000 V800 Storage System set a worldwide OLTP performance record, based on the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 benchmark.