US chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon. It said Marvell ...
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Skyera, a Silicon Valley startup, says it can make high-speed flash storage for enterprises cheaper than hard disks by using the low-grade chip technology found in thumb drives. Skyera has built a 44TB storage array, called the Skyhawk, ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it is developing a line of products for storing large amounts of data, based on its flash memory chips. The company is working on a three-tier strategy to spur in-house demand for NAND flash memory, of which it is ...
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Japan's Finance Ministry has uncovered evidence of a major Trojan cyber-attack on its computer systems that lay undetected for almost two years, according to local sources. Ministry officials have admitted that the unspecified Trojan, ...
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Dojo North Software has released version 2.2.6.20 of WindowSMART 2012, a hard disk and solid state disk health monitoring, reporting and alerting utility for Windows, which promptly notifies you if unhealthy conditions are detected. ...
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EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers, and it's working on software to tie all enterprise flash components together. The company is using technology it gained through its May acquisition of XtremIO to build an ...
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Computerworld-Hewlett-Packard's Storage division Monday released upgrades to three product lines.A product marketing director called the upgrades the Storage division's biggest news since acquiring 3Par in 2010. HP said it's upgrading the ...
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A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. According to market ...
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IBM has announced it is buying Texas Memory Systems (TMS) for an undisclosed sum. Texas Memory Systems (TMS) was founded in 1978 and has become one of the most prolific suppliers in the flash storage market, specialising in its RamSan ...
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IDG News Service - Violin Memory plans to add deduplication, thin provisioning, snapshots and other features in a software update for its all-flash storage arrays, in a bid to match some key features that enterprises are used to getting in ...
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