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- 23 November 2011
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News: Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Existing Storage
Recent flooding in Thailand has affected many hard drive manufacturers, resulting in price hikes for hard drives of as much as 50 to 100 percent. How long this will last is unclear, but in the meantime, you can postpone new purchases of storage gear by implementing these methods to help reduce unnecessary files, reduce the space used on the system, and allow for expansion with existing systems.
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News: Western Digital hard-disk drive takeover approved, with conditions
Western Digital will be allowed to take over Hitachi’s hard disk drive business, but only if it sells off a 3.5-inch hard disk drive production plant.
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News: 2012: The year of 'big data'
With the amount of information created and replicated expected to surpass 1.9 zettabytes in 2011, now is the time for enterprises to start using big data technology, according to analyst firm, IDC Australia.
- 22 November 2011
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News: Dell PowerEdge servers get AMD's new 16-core chips
Dell on Tuesday said it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices.
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News: Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says
Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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News: Apple to return to nVidia graphics processors for 2012 MacBooks - report
Apple could be about to switch back to nVidia GPUs for its next generation of Macs, according to reports.
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News: Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage
The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses.
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News: 7 hot storage startups to watch
From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.
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News: Qualcomm's Mirasol reflective color display debuts on Korean e-reader
Qualcomm's long-awaited Mirasol reflective color screen technology is on the market, in an e-reader that launched in South Korea on Tuesday.
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News: Nanya fires back at Elpida with patent complaint
Nanya said on Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement complaint in the U.S. against Japan's Elpida, further escalating the legal battle between the two DRAM makers.
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News: Nanya fires back at Elpida with patent complaint
Nanya said on Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement complaint in the U.S. against Japan's Elpida, further escalating the legal battle between the two DRAM makers.
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News: S3 Graphics loses a patent fight with Apple
The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that Apple did not infringe technology patents owned by S3 Graphics and ended its investigation of the matter, the ITC announced Monday.
- 21 November 2011
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News: A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution
The man who led the design and development of the first microprocessor 40 years ago said at the time he didn't foresee the extent of the digital revolution he was helping to create.
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News: EMC adds Linux support, metering to Atmos cloud software
EMC today announced its first upgrade to the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, adding metering capabilities and support for Linux.
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News: Oracle: HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going
Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday.
- 17 November 2011
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News: iSuppli drops 2011 semiconductor forecast on slow Q4
An industry analyst firm has lowered its forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market for this year because of declining revenue in the fourth quarter.
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News: LCD, e-ink challenger Mirasol will be on devices in months
Most tablets and e-readers today use LCD or e-ink technology, but a new challenger that promises sharp color and reduced screen power consumption could be used in devices in a matter of months.
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News: Intel celebrates 4004 microprocessor's 40th anniversary
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the chip that unwittingly changed the world, Intel’s first microprocessor, the 4004.
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News: Remains of the Day: This time, it means business
The iPhone is the bee's knees in business, Stanford gives you a free education, and one noted photographer is all about the iPhone. The remainders for Wednesday, November 16, 2011 learn something new every day.
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News: Rambus considers antitrust appeal as stock falls
Rambus is considering whether to appeal the Wednesday jury verdict that scuttled its antitrust suit against Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technologies, which could have required the defendants to pay nearly US$12 billion in damages.
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