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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With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
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Western Digital Thursday unveiled an upgraded line of 1TB to 4TB 3.5-in hard drives for data centers. WD had released another 4TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000 made by its Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) unit, in ...
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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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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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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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Cloud storage provider Livedrive introduced an app for Google's Chromebook on Thursday that is designed to give Livedrive customers access to their files stored online, which can total as much as 5TB. The Chromebook is designed for online ...
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Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, has launched a powerful new, high quality server to further bolster the Fasthosts Dedicated Server range. The new Fasthosts DS1200 server boasts Solid State Drives (SSD) and 2 x 2TB of ...
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Microsoft announced today that it will acquire cloud storage vendor StorSimple. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The move is designed to advance Microsoft's Cloud OS vision and enable its customers to better leverage hybrid ...
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FarStone Announces DriveClone - FarStone Technology, known for their refined Total Backup and Recovery software, has released Drive Clone v8.3 for Windows users. DriveClone is an easy-to-use SSD and HDD cloning tool. DriveClone ...
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Symantec today announced upgrades to its enterprise-class NetBackup software to focus on tighter integration with VMware and the ability to backup and recover virtual machines (VMs) more quickly. NetBackup 7.6 will include NetBackup ...
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Red Hat has announced the availability of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.1. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation customers are able to access the beta via the Red Hat Network today. The platform is expected to ...
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eRacks Open Source Systems announces a new custom line of pre-configured desktop computers,rackmount servers,and NAS Network Attached Storage servers available through Amazon. ORANGE,CA,August 24,2012/24-7PressRelease/--eRacks Open Source ...
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This is where we give key peripherals,components,and networking products their due.The competition was particularly fierce in the router market this year,as companies jockeyed for position in both the nascent 802.11ac space and the more ...
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Western Digital today released a 4TB version of its highest performance desktop drive,the WD Black. The new drive has twice the available capacity and its dual processor has double performance of its predecessor.The 4TB WD Black is a ...
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