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News: Berkeley Data Systems Unveils Unlimited Online Storage

News: SanDisk Shrugs off Berlin Court Ruling in MP3 Spat

News: Teradata Unveils New Advanced Analytics for Data Warehousing

News: Disk Drive Pioneer Al Shugart Dies

News: Kofax Introduces Web-Based Document-Capture Suite

Opinion: Stocking-Stuffer Gifts for the IT Crowd



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News: Berkeley Data Systems Unveils Unlimited Online Storage

The company believes it has "fixed" online storage with a new service that backs up an unlimited number of digital files online for $4.95 per month. Click here for the whole story

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News: SanDisk Shrugs off Berlin Court Ruling in MP3 Spat

Memory card and MP3 music player producer SanDisk says a legal battle with MP3 patent holders is ongoing and shrugs off a statement from a patent pool firm claiming a judicial victory. Check it out

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News: Teradata Unveils New Advanced Analytics for Data Warehousing

The company automates data prep and claims 25 times runtime improvement for SAS, SPSS, Fair Isaac and KXEN tools. Get the details here

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News: Disk Drive Pioneer Al Shugart Dies

Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76. Once ran his dog for political office

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News: Kofax Introduces Web-Based Document-Capture Suite

The data storage vendor's Intelligent Capture and Exchange Suite integrates scanning, and transformation and exchange of documents through SOA-compliant Web services. Read the full story here

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Opinion: Stocking-Stuffer Gifts for the IT Crowd

Forget the funny ties, warm socks and holiday CDs. Here's a list filled with practical "gifts" of tools and tchotchkes for the heroes who mind the data center and storage infrastructure. Here are our picks

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