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- 02 December 2011
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News: IDC: Storage growth slowing to normal
Growth in sales of enterprise disk storage slowed in the third quarter as the industry returned to normal patterns after recovering from the recession, according to research company IDC.
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News: Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news
Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise hardware and hopeful reports on U.S. employment and the European debt crisis.
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News: Western Digital warns of slow recovery in Thailand
Hard-drive maker Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but also warned that some of its operations were still under water from the severe floods that hit the country starting late July.
- 01 December 2011
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News: Thailand floods spur rush to SSDs
According to DRAMeXchange, the flooding in Thailand that has left the storage industry with a dearth of hard drives has also caused a temporary rush on solid-state drives
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News: Intel surges further ahead of Samsung in chip market
Intel has taken on a challenge from Samsung Electronics head-on by picking up the pace and regaining its long-held dominance in the worldwide chip market.
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News: AMD moves away from Intel rivalry, rethinks course
After years of going up against Intel and not fairing so well, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is no longer going to focus on its long-standing rival.
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News: External desktop hard drives buying guide
External desktop hard drives buying guide Mac’s hard drive near capacity? Time to add more storage The hard drive in your Mac is often referred to as an internal hard drive. An external hard drive is packaged in a case and connects to your Mac usually via USB or FireWire. External hard drives can be portable, generally using smaller 2.5-inch drives and can run off of USB or FireWire bus power, or they can be designed to find a home on your desk, using 3.5-inch drive mechanisms and requiring a power supply plugged into a wall outlet.
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News: Renesas plans upgrade for Japan chip production to handle major earthquakes
Renesas Electronics will upgrade its Japanese factories so that they can be up and running within a month after a major quake like the one that struck Japan in March.
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News: Sharp introduces super-thin camera module for smartphones
Sharp on Thursday announced a camera module for smartphones that shoots 12.1 megapixels and is just 5.47-mm (0.22 inches) thick, which it says is the thinnest in the industry.
- 30 November 2011
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News: Samsung ships test units of performance-boosting mobile chip
Samsung on Wednesday said it has started shipping test units of its latest dual-core mobile chip based on ARM's new Cortex-A15 processor design, which could boost the performance of applications and graphics on smartphones and tablets.
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News: STEC announces high-endurance SSD
Storage vendor STEC announced a high-performance drive that has three times the endurance capability of previous generation MLC-based solid state drives.
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News: Seagate revamps 'SSD killer' hard drive by adding more flash
Seagate has announced the next version of its Momentus XT ‘hybrid’ hard drive, a design that pairs a traditional spinning hard disk with a large cache of flash memory as a way of boosting performance without the expense of a full-blown SSD drive.
- 29 November 2011
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News: Tablets to get faster with PCI Express 4.0
A speedy successor to PCI data transfer protocols used in PCs and interconnects like Intel's Thunderbolt is being designed with tablets in mind, a standards-setting organization said on Tuesday.
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News: Obama wants feds to digitize all records
President Obama has called for all federal agencies to update their decades-old methods of records management, in large part by moving to electronic records management systems.
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News: HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance
Hewlett-Packard today announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance that's capable of storing up to 768 TB in a single chassis.
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News: Seagate launches new Momentus XT hybrid drive: 750GB for $245
Seagate today released the third generation of its hybrid drive, doubling the amount of NAND memory to 8GB and increasing total capacity to 750GB.
- 28 November 2011
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News: AMD introduces branded memory modules for desktops
Advanced Micro Devices' first branded desktop system memory modules, called AMD Memory, will be available in North America through major retailers, the company said Monday.
- 26 November 2011
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News: USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds
USB sticks remain a big security weakness for many UK organisations with many employees using drives for data transport without permission and not bothering to report their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found.
- 25 November 2011
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News: ViaSat UK rolls out secure military communications tech
Satellite communications vendor ViaSat UK has launched a range of high-capacity satellite-based products, designed for use by the UK military and government, following its acquisition of UK security specialist Stonewood last year.
- 23 November 2011
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News: Intel recasts Pentium chip for servers
Intel is giving new life to its Pentium processor for servers, and has started shipping the new Pentium 350 chip for low-end servers.
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