Computerworld - Peer-to-peer cloud storage vendor Symform today announced it is offering unlimited online capacity to customers who pay by contributing local disk capacity instead of money. Symform uses a crowd-sourcing strategy to create ...
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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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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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A recent study by four UCLA documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- that users can be charged for wireless data they never received. In the most extreme case of overcharging, an unnamed carrier charged the ...
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Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to more easily build web applications that access data stored in the company's cloud. Developers can now implement ...
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The company that invented NAND flash, Toshiba, plans to become the third hard drive manufacturer to offer a hybrid drive. Hybrids combine a spinning disk with flash cache to offer near solid-state drive (SSD) performance at a fraction ...
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VMware announced today that its vSphere cloud operating system will now come natively with EMC's Avamar backup and recovery software, which also includes data deduplication capability. Additionally, EMC announced its VFCache PCIe server ...
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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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Open cloud provider Rackspace has launched Cloud Block Storage product to help OpenStack cloud users overcome storage-related challenges amid explosion of corporate data. The product will be powered by OpenStack platform and aims to ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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Golden Systems Middle East, a leading distributor of IT products in the Middle East, announced that it has won the 'Best Brand promotion initiative' award from Reseller Middle East at the inaugural Reseller Hot 50 Awards held at the H ...
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Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Rather ...
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Golden Systems Middle East (GSME) has announced that it is looking to expand its business by signing on new vendors and channel partners at GITEX. The distributor plans to promote its vendor partners' products, launch new products and ...
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Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to build web applications that access data stored in the company’s cloud far more easily. Developers can now implement ...
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