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- 08 April 2013
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News: HP to customize Moonshot offerings, offer ARM and Xeon chips
Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon processors.
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News: Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20G bps (bits per second).
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News: Slideshow: The Week in Mac Accessories: You should see our USBs!
If you're looking for the latest USB 3.0 technology (including the hubbiest hub ever) look no further than the latest Mac-accessory roundup. Also: cases, key covers, adapter holders, super docks, air filters, and even a backpack.
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News: Fusion-io releases 1.6TB flash card, HP preps workstations for them
Fusion-io announced a flash card for workstations that more than triples the capacity over its previous model, and for the first time Hewlett-Packard is preparing to ship workstations with the drives.
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News: Flash storage driving VDI adoption, claims Pure
For years analysts have been predicting that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be the “next big thing,” but the concept is still failing to set the world on fire. Many organisations, while supporting the ideas behind VDI integration, have not yet taken the final leap – primarily due to concerns about cost and performance.
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News: IBM makes next-gen transistors that could work like the human brain
IBM researchers have found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics the way the human brain operates.
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News: Switzerland to upgrade supercomputer to improve Alps weather forecasts
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors to enable the system to more accurately predict the weather in the steep mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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News: Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton
After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing.
- 04 April 2013
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News: LenovoEMC fortifies small-business storage with enterprise smarts
Small and medium-sized enterprises with no full-time IT staff are beginning to get some of the same features that large data centers have for efficiency and control.
- 03 April 2013
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News: The end of Moore's Law is on the horizon, says AMD
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku believes Moore's Law has about 10 years of life left before ever-shrinking transistor sizes smack up against limitations imposed by the laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. That day of reckoning for the computing industry may still be a few years away, but signs of the coming Moorepocalypse are already here. Just ask chip maker AMD.
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News: Non-volatile DIMM cards coming soon to a server and array near you
Viking and Micron plan to begin shipping forms of non-volatile DRAM on standard DDR4 DIMMs this summer. The cards combine DRAM with a NAND flash backup that speeds recovery and can be used as a tier of storage in a server.
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News: Second-gen Nexus 7 coming around July; it will run Qualcomm chip, sources say
The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report.
- 02 April 2013
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News: Yahoo Mail gets Dropbox support to handle large attachments
Attaching large files to an e-mail used to be a major hassle, but e-mail providers are now tapping into cloud storage services to make it easier.
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News: Getting Started with SkyDrive and Windows Phone 8
While Apple users have iCloud, and Android fans have Google Drive, Windows Phone devotees have SkyDrive. SkyDrive is Microsoft's free online cloud storage service and every Windows Live account automatically receives 7GB of free storage space, which can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection--including, naturally, Windows Phone 8 handsets.
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News: HP to announce Project Moonshot hyperscale servers next week
Hewlett-Packard next week will unveil a class of hyperscale servers as part of Project Moonshot, the company's attempt to build densely packed low-power servers that can scale performance quickly.
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News: New Hybrid Memory Cube spec to boost DRAM bandwidth by 15x
A consortium of 100 vendors will publish a new 3D DRAM spec that by next year will offer data rate speeds of up to 28Gbps for FPGAs, ASICs and ASSPs.
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News: CloudSigma goes all SSD in its cloud
In what one analyst calls a harbinger of future advancements by cloud providers, European infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company CloudSigma has announced that its cloud storage will run completely on solid state drives (SSD).
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News: Project stores 3D images of world historic sites in limestone mine
The nonprofit organization CyArk creates 3D digital images of the world's historic sites, but stores them on disk drives dropped each week into a bank security box. As the data is expected to grow to two petabytes over the next five years, the group chose a new archival strategy that includes stashing tape drives in a limestone mine storage facility owned by Iron Mountain.
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News: Cloudian upgrades storage software with management, encryption features
Cloudian has upgraded its storage platform with improved reliability and security, as well as better integration with Amazon's Simple Storage Service.
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News: New Hybrid Memory Cube spec to boost DRAM bandwidth by 15X
The three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high performance computing markets.
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