The European Commission on Tuesday warned 13 optical disk drive suppliers that they may face a formal antitrust investigation for participating in a worldwide cartel. The companies are alleged to have been engaged in bid rigging for at ...
Start-up Nimble Storage announced new, scalable flash storage arrays with a range of performance and storage shelves. The new products are designed to offer easy-to-deploy storage clustering and are being marketed for use in ...
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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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eAegis Inc, announces its incomparable price offer for the entry level powerful 8-bay NAS server, QNAP TS-869 Pro with 28TB of storage. It has the capability to house up to eight 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA NAS hard disk drives and is capable ...
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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 ...
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Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny ...
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Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). Nvelo is privately held and based in Santa Clara, California, and the terms of the deal were not ...
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Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, announced the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, the latest generation of its Oracle Database Machines, during his keynote address at Orcale OpenWorld 2012. “Forward-looking enterprises are ...
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HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over a decade. On the eve of the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt, the company gathered international press to reveal ...
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Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
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Cisco and Fusion-io have announced a partnership to incorporate Fusion-io’s flash technology into Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The deal will make Fusion-io an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner of the ...
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Buyers of computers running Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for ARM-based devices, will receive at no additional cost a version of Office that will become available in multiple languages between November and January. The devices, ...
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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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