Western Digital’s long-awaited approval of their Hitachi purchase has cleared one more regulatory hurdle, gaining conditional approval from the EU. WD has announced in their quarterly call about a month ago that they expected approval from the EU by the end of November. While other approvals need to be obtained still, the EU approval was

Pogoplug, a cloud-storage service for mobile phones, is teaming up with Drobo to double the amount of free storage when you sign up–this week only. Initially capped at 5 GB, when a customer registers during the week of November 21st to the 27th, they will have 10 GB “free for life.”

Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) has disclosed that on November 18, 2011, an arbitration award of $525 million was rendered against the company, which they intend to challenge vigorously. The confidential arbitration took place in Minnesota, and while details are very thin, WD did reveal that the award involves claims brought by Seagate against WD and

Quantum Corp. announced three new products aimed at enterprise data management. Included in the new releases are the DXi8500, a deduplication device, the Scalar i6000, a dual robotic tape library, and version 4.1 of Quantum Vision management software. The DXi8500 is touted as an extremely affordable solution. Price is set around $300,000 and includes data

Exciting news for anyone currently using their new SSD in RAID0! Intel will finally be bringing TRIM support. Currently the only way for TRIM to function on an SSD is to operate in AHCI mode. This means that drives in high-performance arrays such as RAID0 lose the NAND cleaning benefits which could decrease speeds as

Voxel, a hosting company based in New York, announced they selected OCZ as an SSD vendor for drives used in their voxSERVER dedicated server products. As an optional upgrade these SSDs aren’t seen in every server, but instead used in configurations where the customer needs very fast I/O speeds in setups such as a database

Western Digital has added two more content providers to their line of media streamers; Vimeo and PlayJam. The update is available via firmware update on the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub products and takes just a few minutes to update.

SOS Online Backup has announced the first low cost, all in one, enterprise cloud-based data protection service. The new service, ServerSave, offers cloud backup for Bare Metal, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL servers, plus granulated recovery.

Kingston Digital has launched the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB drive, their fastest USB drive to date. Not only will it store a bunch of data with a top capacity of 256GB, but it also cranks out read speeds of 225 MB/s and writes of 135 MB/s, certainly not something we’re used to seeing out of