The Ministry of Commerce said China strongly opposes disclosure of an interim World Trade Organization report that disfavors the nation's claim in its rare earths disputes with other countries. "The case is under panel examination, which ...
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Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. While VMware's new NSX network hypervisor has sent ...
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Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said. SSDs are getting more attractive as NAND flash gets faster and cheaper, as it ...
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Enterprises are gaining the ability to turn existing storage platforms over to flash even as solid-state media remains mostly a tool for caching and for applications with special requirements. On Wednesday, Hitachi Data Systems is ...
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Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software. The HP 3Par StoreServ 7450 Storage system, being introduced on Tuesday at the HP ...
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Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs. Dell has modified the ...
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Western Digital's HGST subsidiary today announced what it is calling the industry's densest mobile hard-disk drive, with capacities of up to 1.5TB in a 9.5mm (.37-in.) high form factor. The 2.5-in. wide disk drive contains three platters ...
Seagate Technology today announced its new portfolio of solid-state drives (SSDs) -- including its first consumer model for laptops -- and a new PCIe flash card. The new 2.5-in drive series includes the consumer-class Seagate 600 SSD, the ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch model with a touchscreen. The new laptops are 36 percent thinner and 18 percent lighter than their ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV
IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue, with 15.7% of the global market in 2012, ...
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The world's fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative ...
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