STMicroelectronics says it has shipped three billion MEMS sensors to date. ST’s total MEMS and sensor sales grew more than 19% in 2012, reaching a total of approximately $800m, according to market analyst IHS. ST’s MEMS ...
Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out on Monday with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors. The SSDs (solid-state drives) being ...
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A recent breakthrough in storage research may someday produce a new type of solid-state device that can be used like a hard disk drive and holds 1,000 times as much data. An international team of researchers led by a Massachusetts ...
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Micron on Thursday unveiled its first terabyte-sized solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers, the Crucial M500, which will sell for under $600, or 60 cents per gigabyte. The new SSD, almost doubles the capacity over its predecessor the ...
A perennial runner-up in the enterprise HDD market,Western Digital(WD)is set to release a line of helium-filled drives,a move that could boost its global market share to the top spot,according to IHS. The helium-filled data center drives ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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Computerworld-Notebook computers equipped with hard disk drives won't face a significant threat this year from those with solid-state drives(SSDs),according to a report issued by IHS iSuppli. SSD-based notebook PCs like Apple's MacBook ...
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Packaging supplies company in the UK Davpack has announced a new addition to its range of anti static packaging products. The new polythene bags that are available in clear or black plastic and black plastic tubing offer a protection to ...
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DALLAS, TX, August 19, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Business owners who provide important services can't accept downtime, even if it means working through the night to re-build a RAID array after a hard drive failure. Encartele, encartele, a ...
Converged storage and server maker Nutanix has announced upgraded hardware and a new operating system (OS) version with support for Red Hat's KVM hypervisor in addition to existing VMware support. Nutanix debuted in 2011 with its ...
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YORKTOWN, VA, August 03, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cybernetics has announced the immediate availability of 4 TB disk drives in all VTL Backup solutions. Now, with the introduction of 4 TB hard disk drives, Cybernetics' disk-based Virtual ...
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YORKTOWN, VA, July 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cybernetics has announced the immediate availability of 4 TB disk drives in all SAN Storage Virtual Disk solutions. Cybernetics' SAN Storage solutions are now available with 4 TB hard disk ...
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OCEANPORT, NJ, July 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- WinLib recently introduced a new control for software developers and software authors. With this control developer can find and delete empty folders on your PC. There might be lots of ...
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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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