Canonical has released both the server and desktop editions of 12.10 Ubuntu, which offers a glimpse of how this Linux distribution will evolve in the next few years. Ubuntu 12.10 "effectively sets out the future direction of how Ubuntu ...
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Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
In the release notes to Version 3.5.6 of the Linux kernel, maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman warned users that there would likely be only one more version of that branch of the kernel, and that users should get ready to move to the 3.6 branch ...
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Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
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TRAVERSE CITY, MI, June 15, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Key Metric Software has released version 6 of FolderSizes - the world leader in disk space analysis and visualization software. FolderSizes 6 is a major upgrade that features PDF ...
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While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier this week, advanced analysis of the ...
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Clustered NAS capability is a major event theme for NetApp at its Insight partner event in Dublin this week, but very few customers have switched to the true clustering capability that debuted in version 8.1.1 of its Data ONTAP operating ...
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LUHANSK, UKRAINE, July 30, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Hetman Software updates Hetman Partition Recovery, the company´s flagship tool to recover lost information and repair damaged, corrupted and inaccessible disk volumes. The new ...
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Quantum has reported an 11% loss in revenues of $147m for the second quarter of the financial year, with net losses of $5m compared to profits of $14m in the same period the year before. Quantum blamed lower-than-expected revenue from ...
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Despite advances in storage technology such as disk-based back-up, data de-duplication software and cloud-based storage, yesteryear's storage device – tape – is not dead, according to analysts and suppliers at SNW Europe 2012. ...
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NetApp has topped-and-tailed capacities in its midrange filer family, introducing the FAS3220 and FAS3250. Both products come with clustered NAS, unified storage (NAS and SAN) and flash cache acceleration capability. The FAS3220 and ...
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Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
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Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis,Amazon Web Services(AWS)has introduced a storage package,called High Storage,that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage,an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)package,is ...
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Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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