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- 17 April 2013
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News: Titan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system
The world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative fuels.
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News: Getac B300 upgraded, graphics capabilities doubled
Rugged laptop, the Getac B300, has been upgraded with twice the graphics capabilities of the previous generation B300.
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News: On eve of departure, Otellini looks back on four decades with Intel
Just a month away from retirement, Intel CEO Paul Otellini has reflected on his four decades with the company during his last quarterly earnings call with analysts and reporters.
- 16 April 2013
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News: Evans succeeds Vincent as Hitachi A/NZ country manager
Storage and virtualisation vendor, Hitachi Data Systems, has appointed Neil Evans as A/NZ and Pacific Islands vice-president and country manager, succeeding Neville Vincent.
- 15 April 2013
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News: ARM-based chips to improve network performance and keep power use in check
Chipmaker LSI is hoping to improve networking performance and flexibility with its ARM-based Axxia 4500 processor family, announced Monday.
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News: AppliedMicro, Altera team to speed up ARM servers
Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera.
- 13 April 2013
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News: Thunderbolt storage drives to strike later in 2013
Intel's high speed Thunderbolt interconnect technology, found primarily on Apple's side of the computing fence, enjoyed a big week at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas. As the push for higher-resolution video continues to grow, so do the file sizes, making the need for faster sustainable throughput ever greater.
- 12 April 2013
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News: Dell: Little momentum in ARM servers until 64-bit processors
The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market.
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News: Adoption of DDR4 memory facing delays
The memory market is feeling the effects of a fall in PC shipments with the subsequent stabilization of DRAM prices, which industry observers say will delay the wide adoption of the upcoming DRAM called DDR4.
- 11 April 2013
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News: IBM to invest $1B in flash memory development
After its buyout of Texas Memory Systems, IBM is now the latest on the vendor bandwagon to push flash into the data centers, saying it will invest a whopping $1 billion into flash research.
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News: Wall Street Beat: Weak PC sales rain on tech stocks' parade
Just as tech stocks were starting to rise this week, dismal PC sales reports for the first quarter burst the very short-lived bubble, causing shares of IT companies to fall back to earth Thursday.
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News: IBM bets $1 billion on Flash storage
The hard drive will soon be dead, at least for most uses in the enterprise, IBM is betting. The company is undertaking a major strategic initiative -- and US$1 billion in research -- to make flash the prominent form of storage in most organizations.
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News: Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014
Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014, the standards-setting organization said on Thursday.
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News: Samsung hits high gear, rolls out densest flash chip
Samsung today announced it is now mass-producing a 3-bit per cell, sub-20 nanometer class NAND flash chip that is the densest memory to date.
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News: End is in sight for Intel's Atom netbook-specific processors
Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road map as PC sales tumble and tablet adoption widens.
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News: Breaking Moore's Law: How chipmakers are pushing PCs to blistering new levels
There's no two ways around it: The PC is slowing down with age.
- 10 April 2013
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News: Use of unified communications grows: DiData and Ovum
About 78 per cent of businesses have a strategic plan and budget to implement some components of UC and collaboration (UCC) components, while 42 per cent of decision makers have a budget to proceed with investment in most aspects of UCC, according to a study conducted by Dimension Data.
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News: Dropbox to add single sign-on
Dropbox, whose cloud storage and file-sharing application has been adopted by millions of consumers, will add single sign-on (SSO), its latest feature for businesses as it seeks to penetrate the workplace market.
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News: USB says new specification to double transfer speed in the works
PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today.
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News: Intel's new 'Bay Trail' chip to bring budget convertible PCs to the market
Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday.
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