Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
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Deal will fuel Samsung’s storage capabilities Samsung Electronics has acquired the US-based storage software provider Nvelo, for an undisclosed sum. The company said that the acquisition includes privately held Nvelo's technology ...
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered information suggesting a possible link between the mysterious malware that attacked Iranian oil ministry computers in April and the Stuxnet and Duqu cyberespionage threats. Following ...
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Hitachi Data Systems today lifted the covers off its flash roadmap,saying that like EMC,it will put NAND flash products in servers,storage and appliances in order to enable compute acceleration,caching and high-performance storage. HDS ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Torbay Care Trust (TCT) £175,000 for a data breach it said was "entirely avoidable". The Trust, based in Devon, had published "sensitive details" of over 1,000 employees on its ...
Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
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Thailand’s economy may shrink 3.7 percent this quarter following the worst flooding in almost 70 years, the government said, adding to the case for an interest- rate cut as early as next week. Gross domestic product rose 3.5 percent ...
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Flooding in Thailand appear to have done major damage to some of the country’s plastics processors, according to reports emerging from machinery suppliers with sizable business there. Tokyo-based Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., for example, ...
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The LED market is facing significant headwinds of late. The current downturn in the LED market is largely due to reduced prices for LED-based TV backlight and lighting systems. This is because of inventory adjustments, and increased ...
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