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Box pages developers, asks them to give healthcare industry a shot of innovation

Posted October 2, 2013 - 12:38 pm

To inject variety, volume and quality into health applications, Box has teamed up with Dignity Health and The Social+Capital Partnership on a developer contest.
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Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics

Posted October 2, 2013 - 11:21 am

Agribusiness giant Monsanto is paying US$930 million to acquire the Climate Corporation, maker of a software platform that crunches weather-related data in order to help farmers more effectively grow crops.
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What to do when your free cloud storage fills up

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:26 pm

Giving away scads of free cloud storage is all the rage these days, but when you've hit your limit, your options are few.
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How to maximize the capacity of your SSD

Posted October 1, 2013 - 12:47 pm

Follow these tips to overcome storage constraints.
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Seagate, TDK show off HAMR to jam more data into hard drives

Posted September 30, 2013 - 8:50 pm

Seagate Technology will demonstrate HAMR, a technology it's counting on to fit more data onto hard disk drives, at the Ceatec show this week.
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BMC puts Hadoop on the company timesheet

Posted September 30, 2013 - 4:01 pm

Now that many organizations see the utility in big data, BMC Software has provided a way to incorporate jobs from the Hadoop data processing platform into larger enterprise workflows.
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EMC Bets Big on Flash Storage

Posted September 30, 2013 - 9:39 am

The vendor gets aggressive about enterprise flash arrays, but faces challenges in the data center
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Flash storage vendor Violin falls on IPO

Posted September 27, 2013 - 4:36 pm

Shares of solid-state storage vendor Violin Memory plunged more than 17 percent on the company's first day of trading Friday, but analysts said the market for flash storage remains hot.
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Larry Ellison takes Oracle employees on a three hour tour [CARTOON]

Posted September 27, 2013 - 6:00 am

Not everybody at Oracle enjoyed the America’s Cup
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Micron ships Hybrid Memory Cube that boosts DRAM 15X

Posted September 25, 2013 - 1:23 pm

Micron Wednesday said that it's started shipping engineering samples of its 3D Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to high-performance computing and network equipment makers.
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Oracle pushes into database-as-a-service

Posted September 23, 2013 - 4:04 pm

Oracle has hyped its new 12c database as faster and more powerful than ones that have come before, and now it's highlighting the release's ability to easily serve up multiple databases of varying size and scope according to a particular user's needs.
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NetApp's hybrid cloud plan targets storage for any virtual systems

Posted September 20, 2013 - 1:08 pm

Hybrid is a hot word in the cloud right now. All the cloud vendors seemingly have a hybrid strategy that they say gives users a common management platform between public clouds and their on-premises deployments.
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CERN attempting to tackle big data with new data center and toolchain

Posted September 19, 2013 - 10:15 am

CERN is doubling its data center capacity and rewriting its toolchain to meet big data demands.
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Five free Dropbox tools you're not using (but should be)

Posted September 16, 2013 - 5:02 pm

Dropbox is handy, but you can make it even easier to use with a wide range of products and services that work hand in hand with the cloud-based storage, syncing, and sharing service. Check out these five favorites for getting even more bang for your Dropbox buck.
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NAND flash use is up, but Apple's buying binge slows

Posted September 16, 2013 - 3:23 pm

While overall use of NAND flash is up, Apples consumption waned over the past quarter. At the same time, 3D NAND flash, which offers far greater capacity than todays flash drives, is expected to dominate the future.
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Intel successfully demos SSD overclocking, but will it come to market?

Posted September 13, 2013 - 7:21 pm

Intel successfully managed to overclock an SSD by 10 percent at its Intel Developer Forum, but it's unclear whether or not the company will ever formally release the technology to market.
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DRAM prices up over 27% since China FAB fire

Posted September 12, 2013 - 2:54 pm

Prices of DRAM chips have continued to climb after a major Hynix FAB plant was damaged by fire last week.
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SSDs do die, as Linus Torvalds just discovered

Posted September 12, 2013 - 2:41 pm

Linux coder Linus Torvalds wrote this week about how the SSD in his workstation suddenly stopped working, forcing him to delay work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.
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Valve announces Steam Family Sharing; share your library of digital games with your friends

Posted September 12, 2013 - 6:00 am

Sharing your Steam games first leaked back in June, but now Valve has officially announced its plan to allow limited sharing of your downloaded games. Beta starts soon!
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SAP aims for bigger presence in 'big data' with Hadoop partnerships, new apps

Posted September 11, 2013 - 2:38 pm

Few tech buzzwords of late have been more prevalent than "big data," and SAP is hoping to make sure the market knows it's hip to the trend with a series of new announcements.
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Seagate to produce 5TB hard drive next year, 20TB by 2020

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:57 pm

Seagate announced that it has sold more than 1 million drives using a new recording technology that will offer consumers 5TB hard drives next year and possibly 20TB drives by 2020.
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Red Hat continues to burnish Storage Server

Posted September 10, 2013 - 10:34 am

Nearly two years after the purchase of Gluster, Red Hat continues to polish the scale-out storage software for enterprises, making it more compatible with cloud services and Microsoft enterprise software.
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Seagate unveils a hard drive for tablets, shuns SSDs

Posted September 9, 2013 - 12:32 pm

Seagate has unveiled a new hard drive with up to 500GB of space that will give tablets PC-like storage, while offering the same power, performance and reliability of an SSD.
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Intel aims new Professional line of SSDs at enterprise, SMB clients

Posted September 9, 2013 - 11:05 am

Intel will launch a new family of SSDs at this week's Intel Developer Forum, offering security and remote management features for enterprise and small-business client devices.
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Disk storage revenues decline in Q2

Posted September 9, 2013 - 10:56 am

Disk storage systems sales generated $7.7B in the second quarter, a 5% decline from the same quarter in 2012, according to IDC.
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