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• 18 October 2011

• News: Western Digital extends suspension of operations in Thailand

  Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the possibility of a global shortage of hard disk drives (HDD) in the current quarter.

• News: Viking combines DRAM module with flash for auto backup

  Viking Technology announced a new memory module that combines DRAM, NAND flash and a super capacitor to automatically backup data in the event of a power failure.

• 17 October 2011

• News: Dell ends 10-year reseller relationship with EMC

  Dell announced it has ended a decadelong reseller relationship with EMC this month through which it sold more than a billion dollars worth of midrange and entry-level storage products.

• News: NEC says new technology doubles lithium battery life

  NEC said Monday that it has developed a new lithium-ion battery technology that doubles the life span of conventional models.

• 14 October 2011

• News: iPhone 4S teardowns reveal A5 processor

  Preliminary teardowns of Apple's iPhone 4S have confirmed what rumors claimed for months: The new smartphone is powered by the same dual-core processor used in the iPad 2.

• News: Table salt found to boost data storage density

  The National University of Singapore and the Data Storage Institute have come up with a way to use NaCl (salt) to increase bit storage density on hard drive platters to 3.3 Tbit/in. or more than five times what a Seagate 4TB hard drive has today.

• News: SNIA releases storage power efficiency specification

  The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) has released a new vendor neutral efficiency measurement specification.

• 13 October 2011

• News: AMD's Bulldozer Packs Plenty Of Cores, But Not Enough Power

  Earlier this year Intel made waves with its Sandy Bridge processors, which served up impressive performance gains over their predecessors while improving energy efficiency. AMD’s return salvo is finally here in the form of the AMD FX platform, previously codenamed Bulldozer.

• News: Avastor XMR Mobile RAID Drive offers on-the-go speed

  Avastor’s latest RAID array, the XMR Mobile RAID Drive, offers an easy-to-carry design, multiple connection ports, and transfer speeds that closely rival other portable arrays.

• News: Cloud Service Will Back Up Your Facebook, Mobile Phone

  Cloud backup services have existed for years, and if you’re just looking to back up the files on your computer, you have plenty of options to choose from. But more and more of the files we want backed up the most are on our mobile devices or online where traditional backup tools aren’t helpful.

• News: SOS Online Backup launches cloud backup for Facebook, devices

  SOS Online Backup today announced a cloud backup service for Facebook, mobile devices and desktop computers that allows web-based access to files as well as unlimited multiple versions of those files.

• News: Thailand floods may affect global electronics production

  Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspending operations.

• News: 10 Steps to Get Started With Virtualization

  The benefits of server virtualization are so significant at this point that implementing it is a no-brainer. First and foremost, server virtualization makes much better use of computing resources than physical servers do, since you can run many different virtual servers on a single physical host. In fact, you may be surprised at just how many general-purpose server instances a single modern server can handle simultaneously.

• News: My Brawny Desktop Can Whip Your Wimpy Laptop

  The desktop PC doesn't get a lot of respect these days. Laptops began outselling desktops years ago, and now tablets and smartphones are all the rage.

• 12 October 2011

• News: AMD's 8-core desktop chip puts it back in the race with Intel

  Advanced Micro Devices is looking to get back into the race with Intel with the introduction of its eight-core desktop chip and its new Bulldozer architecture.

• News: AMD's new eight-core Bulldozer FX chips touch 4.2GHz

  Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released the first eight-core desktop chips based on the new Bulldozer architecture, in which cores can run at clock speeds of up to 4.2GHz.

• News: IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN

  IBM plans to roll out software on its midrange and high-end clustered storage arrays that allows policy-based migration, backups and data deletion. The company also will announce that its V7000 series array can perform both file- and block-based data transfers.

• News: Western Digital halts hard disk production in Thailand

  The production of hard disks at Western Digital (WD) facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, has been halted following severe flooding, the company said on Wednesday.

• 11 October 2011

• News: Intel moves away from digital TV business

  Intel on Tuesday said it was winding down its TV business and reallocating the resources to develop "ultrabooks," smartphones and tablets.

• News: Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB 3.0

  Intel will tell you its new high-speed interconnect technology, Thunderbolt, is not in competition with Universal Serial Bus (USB), the ubiquitous standard for connecting computers with other devices.

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