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- 16 August 2011
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News: Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time.
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News: Former Flextronics worker guilty of $1.3M theft
A former employee of Flextronics, an electronics manufacturer, was found guilty of stealing at least $1.3 million in company funds and received a prison sentence, California's attorney general said on Monday.
- 15 August 2011
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News: Industry group releases spec to test consumer SSD performance
An industry standards group has produced a specification for testing solid state drives regardless of the manufacturer, creating a level playing field for determining drive performance.
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News: AMD pushes Microsoft virtual desktops through new GPU
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft's desktop virtualization technology.
- 12 August 2011
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News: Software costs a concern for AMD in data center hunt
AMD is looking at tax and software costs as it looks for ways to reduce the number of its data centers.
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News: Box.net Leads the Way to Embracing Mobile Diversity
Box.net--a cloud storage and collaboration provider--understands that it is a diverse mobile world, and that part of what makes a service like Box.net valuable is the ability to access data from anywhere and from virtually any device or platform. To fulfill that goal, Box.net has launched new Android tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook, and HTML5 browser-based tools.
- 11 August 2011
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News: Intel gives Ultrabooks a $300M investment boost
Intel on Wednesday said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and light laptops promoted as an alternative to tablet PCs.
- 09 August 2011
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News: Sony London optical disc warehouse destroyed in fire
Sony's main optical disc distribution warehouse for the U.K. was hit by a large fire on Tuesday morning that has apparently destroyed most or all of the building.
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News: Hyper-V & virtual PCs: How to handle virtual disks
Choosing the right format for the right scenario is critical when it comes to performance and management of virtual hard disks (VHDs). We'll look at the pros and cons of the three methods -- fixed, pass-through and dynamic disks -- and highlight some necessary steps to maintain VHDs and reduce unnecessary I/O in your virtual environment.
- 08 August 2011
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News: Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever
Start-up Millenniata is planning to introduce a new optical disc and player that etches bits of data into a stone-like material that it claims lasts forever and can be played on any moden DVD or Blu-ray player.
- 07 August 2011
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News: Security, Hacker Conferences Have Tech Industry Buzzing
Stories about lost wages aren't the only scary things being talked about in Sin City this week. The best security researchers and hackers from around the world have gathered in Las Vegas, and news about their work has been creeping out like a toxic flood.
- 05 August 2011
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News: Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualized servers
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache products to virtualized environments.
- 04 August 2011
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News: Flash storage moves closer to CPUs
In a bid to maximize the speed advantage of solid-state storage, more vendors are promoting approaches that move it closer to the CPUs that process stored data.
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News: Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing
Barracuda Networks today announced it has doubled the amount of cloud storage capacity available to customers of its backup service, but it kept the price at $50 per month.
- 03 August 2011
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News: Enterprise data warehouse key to national health reform
The federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing is seeking information from suppliers in preparation for the upcoming national health reform enterprise data warehouse (NHR EDW) program.
- 02 August 2011
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News: IIIS: Big Data driving new trends
Reality mining, tagging data at its source and Cloud reputation agencies are three of the emerging trends likely to come out of the explosion of ‘Big Data’ delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.
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News: IDC reduces yearly processor shipment growth forecast
IDC dropped its growth forecast for yearly processor shipments worldwide due to a slowdown in consumer laptop sales in mature markets such as the U.S. and Europe.
- 01 August 2011
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News: Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software
Symantec today unveiled the latest version of its email archiving software, which can now automatically classify email and assign it to the appropriate tier of storage.
- 28 July 2011
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News: GE pushes ahead with 500GB holographic disc storage
GE is about to begin distribution of holographic optical disc technology and plans to license it to manufacturing partners in the next few months. But a rival company, InPhase, says its own holographic technology is better.
- 26 July 2011
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News: 5 Reasons Apple's Mac Mini Isn't Killing the DVD
Between the Mac Mini, MacBook Air and downloadable version of OS X Lion, Apple is clearly moving toward a future without DVDs. And why not? Optical media can seem superfluous in an age where digital files are easily transferred over the Internet or on a thumb drive.
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