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• 30 August 2011

• News: Intel targets gov't business with new subsidiary

  Intel has formed a subsidiary charged with growing the company's business relationship with the U.S. government, with the new organization's initial focus on high-performance computing, the company said.

• News: IBM's 120 petabyte drive could help better predict weather

  The development of the world's largest single-file name data repository could help predict weather and prevent overhyping of hurricanes like Irene.

• News: Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards

  Fusion-io has bundled virtualization software from its IO Turbine acquisition with its PCIe-based solid-state storage adapter card to serve up flash cache to multiple VMs on a single physical server.

• 29 August 2011

• News: Pricing of RAM to plunge, analyst says

  The price of DDR3 memory used in laptops, desktops and servers will drop over the next two months as memory companies try to clear out excess inventory in a slowing PC market, IHS iSuppli said on Monday.

• News: Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product

  Silver Peak today announced free downloadable software that performs the same data acceleration functions as its enterprise-class product, but only for data replication between two sites and not multiple applications.

• 26 August 2011

• News: Cloud-Based Storage Improves Disaster Recovery at Situs

  When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston. "Our data center stayed up but our office didn't have power for a week," recalls McCown, who is the director of IT for the firm. While employees in other locations had access to the data center, the central office was offline and out of the communications loop.

• News: With new CEO, AMD could fix missed opportunities

  With a new CEO finally at the helm, AMD can begin to move forward in what has become an Intel world.

• 25 August 2011

• News: NYSE Euronext boosts network bandwidth with 10GbE throughout

  As part of an enterprisewide upgrade and data center consolidation, NYSE Euronext has rolled out 10Gbps Ethernet throughout its data centers, increasing aggregate throughput for trades from .5Tbps to 2.4Tbps.

• 24 August 2011

• News: Apple issues updates for Boot Camp, iMac graphics firmware

  Apple on Thursday released a pair of updates to exterminate lingering bugs: one for Boot Camp, and one for the firmware in iMacs' graphics processors.

• News: Iomega releases new 12-bay NAS array

  EMC's Iomega subsidiary this week announced a new top-of-the-line network storage array, which ratchets up the power and performance.

• News: Electricity-Harvesting Device May Put Power in Your Steps

  Two researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have discovered a novel way to generate enough energy from walking to keep small electronic devices powered.

• News: Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake

  The earthquake that struck the East Coast on Tuesday should serve as a wake-up call about the frailty of our aging infrastructure, and it shoud stir businesses to create or update business continuity plans.

• 23 August 2011

• News: Telcos assess response to Canterbury quakes

  Members of the Telecommunications Carriers Forum are considering a satellite contingency plan following the two earthquakes in Canterbury.

• News: Microsoft throws support behind USB 3.0 with Windows 8

  Microsoft is incorporating a software stack in its upcoming Windows 8 OS to natively support devices based on the USB 3.0 interconnect, which is in a battle for adoption with Intel's Thunderbolt.

• News: HighPoint unveils USB 3.0 expansion card for Mac Pro

  If you have a Mac Pro (which have yet to be updated with Thunderbolt) and a USB 3.0 hard drive, you can take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds by installing HighPoint's new RocketU Quad USB 3.0 PCI-E card. The RocketU features four USB 3.0 ports, with each port rated at 5Gbps (USB 2.0 is rated at 480Mbps). The RocketU can be used with USB 2.0 drives, but there isn't any added speed benefit.

• News: Start-up Pure Storage emerges with all-SSD array

  Pure Storage, a start-up that just received $30 million venture funding, has announced an all-NAND flash storage array that it said can compete with traditional hard drive-based systems on price.

• News: HP releases 3Par storage system, federated storage software

  As part of its Converged Storage portfolio, Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced new federated storage software, Peer Motion, which enables admins to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

• News: Major backlight unit supplier for Apple's iPad 3 revealed

  Taiwanese firm Radiant Opto-Electronics will be the biggest supplier of backlight units (BLUs) for the iPad 3, it has been reported.

• News: Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product

  Texas Memory Systems broke out of its uber-high end mold and introduced a flash-based array that it says will compete with Tier 1 hard drive systems on a price-per-gigabyte basis.

• 22 August 2011

• News: AMD Updates CPUs to Boost Laptop Performance, Battery Life

  While competitors Intel and Nvidia are racing off to make smartphone and tablet chips, AMD is standing steadfast to the PC market, announcing today updates to its C- and E-series processors for laptop and desktop PCs.

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