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Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet

Posted May 24, 2012 - 1:48 pm

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen a massive tape library and disk array system to support of Blue Waters, one of the world's largest supercomputers.
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60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

Posted May 23, 2012 - 9:50 pm

Advanced technologies such as HAMR could mean disk drive capacities from 30TB to 60TB by 2016, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli.
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Seagate to buy external drive maker LaCie

Posted May 23, 2012 - 2:41 pm

Seagate today announced plans to acquire LaCie, a French maker of external consumer hard drive products, in an all-cash deal worth about $186 million.
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EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

Posted May 21, 2012 - 9:10 pm

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.
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How to speed up your NAS with iSCSI

Posted May 21, 2012 - 9:51 am

Many technologies originally intended for the enterprise end up trickling down into the consumer market at some point. Some of these technologies (ethernet or virtualization, for instance) are more practical than others; but if businesses find a use for a specific piece of technology, then chances are good that consumers can benefit from it as well. Such is the case with iSCSI.
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EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

Posted May 21, 2012 - 9:11 am

EMC today announced upgrades across all of its product lines, including a doubling of capacity and performance in both its high-end VMAX array and a 50% performance boost to its midrange VNXe line.
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How to partition your hard drive to optimize performance

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:25 am

Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, spacious mechanical hard drives. Unfortunately, mechanical hard drives also constitute one of the most significant performance bottlenecks in modern computer systems. Even when paired with the fastest processors and lots of memory, a slow hard drive will drag down the a system's overall performance and responsiveness, which is why upgrading to an SSD usually yields such significant performance gains.
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How to convert an old PC into a modern server

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:25 am

Your old desktop PC gave you years of reliable service, but eventually it couldn't keep up with modern tasks and applications; so you went out and bought something newer and faster. Now you need to decide what to do with the old clunker.
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New mobile DRAM standard for 4G networks offers 50% performance boost

Posted May 17, 2012 - 9:15 pm

The specification for next-generation mobile DRAM was published, offering smartphone, tablet and ultra-thin notebook makers a 50% increase in memory performance.
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Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

Posted May 17, 2012 - 12:32 pm

SSD maker RunCore's InVincible SSD can wipe your data using one of two methods: overwriting the entire disk with meaningless code or frying it with voltage.
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Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

Posted May 16, 2012 - 5:44 pm

Pure Storage today announced the second generation of its all-flash array, which can now be configured for high availability.
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New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance

Posted May 15, 2012 - 6:18 am

Although the standard for DDR4 memory won't be finalized until summer, several companies are already preparing to ship modules that will boost performance in data centers and on consumer devices
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Microsoft touts Win8's ability to detect, fix hard disk problems

Posted May 10, 2012 - 4:46 pm

Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive and disruptive, even as disk capacity continues to balloon.
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EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:51 pm

EMC today confirmed that it is buying out XtremIO, the maker of flash devices, in a deal pegged at $430 million.
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Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:05 pm

Oracle's virtual desktop infrastructure is no longer reliant solely on the company's own storage infrastructure, giving customers a range of new options that won't tie customers into one vendor.
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iCloud storage upgrade extended for MobileMe users

Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

MobileMe users are getting three extra months of free iCloud storage upgrades as they make the transition to the newer service. In its FAQ explaining the transition, Apple quietly extended the deadline to September 30. The change was first reported by Japanese blog Macotakara.
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Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

Posted May 9, 2012 - 9:09 pm

Pogoplug launched a service today that allows small and medium-sized businesses, as well as home users, to turn their PCs and servers into pools of storage accessible from the Web.
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Microsoft pitches SkyDrive over iCloud to Mac Office users

Posted May 8, 2012 - 3:24 pm

Microsoft is pitching its SkyDrive online storage service to Office for Mac users, calling Apple's iCloud offering "not enough" for collaboration, file sharing and anywhere-access to documents.
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Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

Posted May 8, 2012 - 3:18 pm

Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.
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Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

Posted May 7, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.
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IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

Posted May 7, 2012 - 3:33 pm

The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from US$77 million in 2011 to $812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 percent, according to a new report released Monday by analyst firm IDC.
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OCZ releases performance-boosting SSD firmware, new 64GB drive

Posted May 7, 2012 - 1:20 pm

OCZ today announced a firmware upgrade that boosts performance about 15MB/sec on its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 SSDs. The company also touted a new 64GB Vertex 4 SSD aimed at mobile applications or for use as a boot drive.
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Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory

Posted May 7, 2012 - 12:57 pm

Researchers were able to use diamond tipped tools to add pressure to a phase-change memory alloy and increase its data storing capacity, its performance and its ability to store data longer.
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Successor to DDR3 memory reaching devices next year, Micron says

Posted May 7, 2012 - 8:10 am

Micron on Monday said that DDR4 memory -- the successor to DDR3 DRAM -- will reach computers next year, and that the company has started shipping samples of the upcoming DDR memory type.
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Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

Posted May 7, 2012 - 12:06 am

Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Monday.
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