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- 23 August 2011
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News: Start-up Pure Storage emerges with all-SSD array
Pure Storage, a start-up that just received $30 million venture funding, has announced an all-NAND flash storage array that it said can compete with traditional hard drive-based systems on price.
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News: HP releases 3Par storage system, federated storage software
As part of its Converged Storage portfolio, Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced new federated storage software, Peer Motion, which enables admins to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments.
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News: Major backlight unit supplier for Apple's iPad 3 revealed
Taiwanese firm Radiant Opto-Electronics will be the biggest supplier of backlight units (BLUs) for the iPad 3, it has been reported.
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News: Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product
Texas Memory Systems broke out of its uber-high end mold and introduced a flash-based array that it says will compete with Tier 1 hard drive systems on a price-per-gigabyte basis.
- 22 August 2011
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News: AMD Updates CPUs to Boost Laptop Performance, Battery Life
While competitors Intel and Nvidia are racing off to make smartphone and tablet chips, AMD is standing steadfast to the PC market, announcing today updates to its C- and E-series processors for laptop and desktop PCs.
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News: Dell unveils next-gen EqualLogic arrays
Dell today announced new versions of its midrange EqualLogic SAN arras, the PS4100 and PS6100, which are now qualified with VMware's vSphere v5.0 and offer the use of 2.5-in drives and solid state drives.
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News: Health Insurer Encrypts All Stored Data
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, responding to the theft of 57 hard drives in 2009, has completed a $6 million project to encrypt all of its stored data.
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News: Disaster hits Japan's semiconductor demand
The March earthquake and disaster in Japan are still affecting the global semiconductor market and may continue to do so for months to come.
- 19 August 2011
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Opinion: Inside Prosofts Data Rescue Center
Earlier this week I took a tour of The Data Rescue Center, a data recovery service provider. Competing with the likes of DriveSavers, the Center opened in July in Livermore, Calif., near the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Its services are available nationwide.
- 18 August 2011
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News: IBM brings brain power to experimental chips
IBM has created prototype chips that could mimic brain-like functionality, which the company said is an "unprecedented" step forward in creating intelligent computers that collect, process and understand data quickly.
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News: Christchurch City Council assesses its quake response
Natural disasters usually bring out the best in people. For the ICT department at the Christchurch City Council, the September and February earthquakes brought about a new way of working that has "changed our way of thinking", according to information manager Gavin Till.
- 17 August 2011
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Opinion: Amazon AWS GovCloud: Lessons for the Private Sector
Amazon introduced a new cloud service aimed specifically at the United States government this week. Although the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud is targeted at government agencies, there are also some valuable lessons for private sector businesses and IT admins to learn about cloud servers and data storage.
- 16 August 2011
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News: Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time.
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News: Former Flextronics worker guilty of $1.3M theft
A former employee of Flextronics, an electronics manufacturer, was found guilty of stealing at least $1.3 million in company funds and received a prison sentence, California's attorney general said on Monday.
- 15 August 2011
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News: Industry group releases spec to test consumer SSD performance
An industry standards group has produced a specification for testing solid state drives regardless of the manufacturer, creating a level playing field for determining drive performance.
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News: AMD pushes Microsoft virtual desktops through new GPU
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft's desktop virtualization technology.
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Opinion: The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD
Patrick Couzens asked about using both a solid state drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in the same computer.
- 12 August 2011
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News: Software costs a concern for AMD in data center hunt
AMD is looking at tax and software costs as it looks for ways to reduce the number of its data centers.
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News: Box.net Leads the Way to Embracing Mobile Diversity
Box.net--a cloud storage and collaboration provider--understands that it is a diverse mobile world, and that part of what makes a service like Box.net valuable is the ability to access data from anywhere and from virtually any device or platform. To fulfill that goal, Box.net has launched new Android tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook, and HTML5 browser-based tools.
- 11 August 2011
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Opinion: Cleaning Malware: Slave Drive or Bootable CD?
Kent knows that you can better scan and clean an infected PC's hard drive by not booting from it. He asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if it's better to boot from a Linux CD and run security software from that, or to remove the hard drive, and attach it as a secondary drive to another computer.
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