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APTARE granted patent for cataloguing the metadata for billions of files

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SAS survey signals big data disconnect; only 12 per cent on board

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CloudSigma introduces all-SSD storage for Public Cloud IaaS Platform

CloudSigma is upgrading its public cloud storage offering to an all solid-state drive (SSD) solution, powered by SolidFire. Abandoning magnetic-based, hard-disk drive (HDD) storage altogether due to its inability to keep pace with the randomized, multi-tenant access of a public cloud, CloudSigma’s new, all-SSD offering enables companies to realize the scalability, flexibility and cost-savings advantages of a public cloud while ensuring the reliability and performance of their storage.

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