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Article | 28/09/2011 Violin releases two new flash memory arrays

Violin Memory on Tuesday introduced two new all-NAND flash arrays that double the capacity over their predecessors and offer up to 160TB of capacity i...

Article | 22/09/2011 EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform

EMC's Greenplum subsidiary today announced a new capability to its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance (DCA) that allows users to mix and match unstructur...

Article | 22/09/2011 Imation buys IronKey's hardware assets

Storage device manufacturer Imation Corp. has reached a deal to buy the hardware business of privately-held IronKey, best known for its highly secure ...

Article | 21/09/2011 LaCie ships Thunderbolt-compatible external drive

LaCie today launched its first external hard drive with a 10Gbs Thunderbolt port for use with <a href="http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/">Apple's next...

Article | 16/09/2011 Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers

Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive (SSD) aimed at being used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applicati...

Article | 13/09/2011 IBM's Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients

Watson, IBM's game-show playing supercomputer, will soon try its hand at assisting physicians in the WellPoint health care plan in diagnosing and trea...

Article | 7/09/2011 Are costly SSDs worth the money?

With 5,000 employees and 280 branch offices, Associated Bank is a prime example of a medium-sized business with big data demands.

Article | 2/09/2011 Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash tr...

Article | 1/09/2011 OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket

OCZ Wednesday introduced its first hybrid drive, the RevoDrive Hybrid, which combines 100GB of NAND flash memory with a 1TB hard disk drive along with...

Article | 23/08/2011 Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product

Texas Memory Systems (TMS), best known for its pricey, yet extremely high-performance NAND flash-based storage arrays, has introduced a new system tha...

Article | 24/08/2011 Start-up Pure Storage emerges with all-SSD array

Start-up Pure Storage today emerged from development mode to announce an all-solid state drive (SSD) storage array that it said challenges traditional...

Article | 24/08/2011 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 ...

Article | 18/08/2011 Chase.com goes down, but only for Firefox users

Firefox users may have experienced problems accessing JPMorgan Chase's website chase.com today when the bank experienced problems with an outdated sec...

Article | 16/08/2011 Industry group releases spec to test consumer SSD performance

The Storage Networking Industry Association this month announced the release of a specification that can be used to test the performance of consumer (...

Article | 9/08/2011 The grill: Barbara Koster

Barbara Koster, CIO of Prudential Financial, oversees 1,700 IT employees and formulates policies, establishes standards and architectures, and develop...