Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. The Square Kilometre Array(SKA)is a radio telescope being built ...
Tags: SKA telescope, exascale computer system, deep-space data, ASTRON, IBM
LaCie's impressive Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt Series portable drive has all of the features that the modern media professional could want. The Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt drive comes formatted HFS+and includes both the Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ...
Tags: USB3 Thunderbolt Series, SSD, drive, LaCie
More than 250 touch-screen digital signage displays from LG Electronics are at the heart of a unique program that's bringing interactive kiosks to Manhattan and the outer boroughs over the next several months, LG Electronics USA announced ...
Tags: LED Display, touch-screen, LG display, screen technology
DataDirect Networks(DDN)has announced a clustered NAS storage platform,the SFA7700 hybrid flash storage appliance. The SFA7700 uses DDN's SFA OS operating system in a dual-controller storage platform.The base system supports up to 60 ...
Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
Tags: Samsung, server chips, Cortex-A57 processors, Cortex-A53 processors
IDG News Service-IBM on Tuesday announced the Storwize V3700 storage array,which starts at$11,000 and is one of the lowest-priced storage products the company offers. The V3700 array comprises a stack of technologies including ...
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German office supplies manufacturer Sigel GmbH used storage virtualisation to improve the performance of its VMware-based virtual servers and its Oracle database systems. Sigel also cut costs with its storage hypervisor technology. ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
Tags: Mason IT, Nutanix Platform, costly storage, SAN
At VMworld in Barcelona yesterday, VMware executives fleshed out the company's software-defined datacentre vision of storage virtualised from the server hypervisor. This will provide pools of data capacity in native virtual disk format ...
Tags: VMworld, server hypervisor, virtual disk format, data capacity
9 October 2012 IQE's III-V-on-Si laser materials enable next-gen hard disk drive technology Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has produced epitaxial wafers combining the optical properties of ...
Tags: IQE III-V-on-Si, laser material, next-gen hard disk drive technology
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 ...
Tags: Disk Drive, Thailand, HDD shipments, Hard drive price
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
Tags: Hitachi, HDS, entry-level, storage subsystem
Computerworld-For more than 50 years,hard disk drives have run on air.That's about to change. Western Digital is preparing to launch a line of hard drives filled with helium gas that is said to drastically reduce internal friction and ...