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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • News: Intel acknowledges SSD 320 bug, working on firmware upgrade

    Intel on Sunday acknowledged that a bug could cause its SSD 320 solid-state drives to fail, and said a firmware upgrade is on its way to address the problem.

  • News: Apple MacBook Batteries Found Vulnerable to Malware

    MacBook users are being warned their Apple laptop batteries are vulnerable to being hacked.

  • News: Repair Hassles: Who Will Fix a Defective Graphics Card?

    I have a four-year-old 17-inch Sony VAIO laptop. Everything worked great until I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The laptop crashed, and even after I formatted the drive and did a clean reinstall of Windows 7, it continued to crash. Whenever I got it to boot, it produced lines in any video that I ran. After doing some research, I found that Nvidia had listed my laptop's GeForce Go 8400 GT graphics card as defective, but my particular laptop model was not on the approved recall list. Nvidia could not help because of contract restrictions with Sony, and Sony said that it would repair only recalled models. Is there anything you can do to help?

  • News: EMC revenue grows on strength of big data, VMware

    Increasing customer demand for big data technologies and cloud computing brought record financial results at EMC in the second quarter, the company reported Wednesday.

  • News: Apple adds Core i5, Thunderbolt to MacBook Air

    On Wednesday, simultaneous with the release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple announced the impending release of new MacBook Air models. The new editions of Apple's lightweight 11- and 13-inch laptops have received a major boost in speed and connectivity: They're now powered by Intel Core i5 processors and feature the new Thunderbolt connectivity technology. Coming in at the same prices as the previous generation of MacBook Airs, these new models also sport backlit keyboards.

  • News: IBM to unveil new version of high-end XIV storage system

    IBM this week plans to announce a new version of its high-end, grid-architecture XIV storage system, which will offer four times the performance of its predecessor.

  • News: More Thunderbolt speed results

    Thunderbolt is quite fast, as our lab has experienced first hand. In our ongoing look at Thunderbolt performance, we tested two more configurations, as requested by Macworld readers. The first involves the new Promise Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt array configured as a RAID 0; the second is with Target Disk Mode using Thunderbolt. (Previously, we compared Thunderbolt and FireWire 800 speed. We also looked at Thunderbolt and eSATA.)

  • News: Silver Peak releases software-only WAN optimization

    Silver Peak Systems released a software-only edition of its WAN optimization product that will allow users and vendors to deploy it on a variety of hardware and hypervisors, from virtualized blade servers to storage area networks.

  • News: LTE iPhone unlikely this year, says analyst

    Apple could launch an iPhone this year that works on faster 4G wireless networks, but it would have to make financial and design sacrifices to do so, a research firm said today.

  • News: CERN pushes storage limits as it probes secrets of universe

    When particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN the millions of sensors recording what happens generate around 1 petabyte of data per second.

  • News: Your Old Smartphone's Data Can Come Back to Haunt You

    Your old cell phone data can reemerge from the past to haunt you. Whether it's because sellers are lazy or naive, cast-off phones still contain troves of information about their former users. And as phones get smarter, they're ever more likely to hold bank account passwords, personal email, or private photographs that anyone with the right kind of motivation could exploit.

  • News: F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances

    F5 Networks announced two new storage virtualization appliances that are designed for entry-level and midrange businesses.

  • News: PMC-Sierra releases 6Gbit/sec SATA/SAS RAID controllers

    PMC-Sierra today released two new entry-level RAID controllers for SATA and SAS hardware that sport 6Gbit/sec throughput.