Increased regulation, reduced profits and changing customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with commercially available alternatives. Simon Paris, head of global banking at SAP, said the strategic change has been ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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Samsung Electronics has started producing new smartphone and tablet flash storage chips, which the company said is four times faster than its predecessors. Samsung's eMMC Pro Class 1500 will come in capacities from 16GB to 64GB and ...
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Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets. The new memory, which meets a standard ...
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EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
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PCIe flash module maker Fusion-io today unveiled software than can combine NAND flash storage capacity in industry-standard servers into a single pool of high-performance network storage. The company's new Fusion ION acceleration software ...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced the availability of the Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage module for its enterprise SAN Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) systems. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage module is the first hardware ...
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NetApp has no plans to join the fray in the all-flash array market. That’s according to NetApp CTO Jay Kidd, who spoke to Computer Weekly at NetApp’s Insight partner event in Dublin this week. Jay Kidd says NetApp does not ...
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Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
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AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
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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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Super Talent Technology, a leader of NAND Flash storage solutions, today announced their fourth-generation Value SSD (VSSD), the VSSD Bolt. The new VSSD Bolt is perfect for business and home users who want the performance and durability ...
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A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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The Japanese semiconductor industry is on a downward spiral as rival companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. made gains in chip, memory and integrated circuit sales, research firm IC Insights said in a study. The sales of ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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