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Article | 24/05/2012 Seagate to acquire LaCie

Leading storage vendor Seagate will acquire competitor LaCie, incorporating its product line-up and executives in a $188 million buy-out.

Article | 16/04/2012 LogMeIn Cubby is not just a typical cloud-based storage service

LogMeIn has released details of its cloud storage and data sharing service, Cubby. It's a service that's still in beta mode and users are required to ...

Article | 23/03/2012 20 iconic tech sounds bound for extinction

From the hum of an old car's engine to the galunk! of a fictional plumber's fireball, sounds have an amazing ability to transport us back in time. Eve...

Article | 8/03/2012 How to Choose the Right NAS System for Your Business

We've put together a list of the most desirable features below, grouped into several broad categories. You may not need everything mentioned, though i...

Article | 8/03/2012 IBM moves 1Tbps of data on an optical chip

IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-d...

Article | 18/02/2012 Domino's Pizza finishes last piece of cloud computing move

Domino's Pizza has completed a major move to cloud computing, aimed at freeing up internal resources.

Article | 9/02/2012 In pictures: The world's coolest datacentres

Data centres need to be secure, temperature controlled, spacious, redundant, reliable – nothing sexy. But that doesn't mean they can't be. Here are a ...

Article | 12/12/2011 Microsoft and HP to collaborate on public and private cloud services

HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft Office 365 an...

Article | 1/12/2011 Top tech Christmas gifts under $200

Deciding what to buy friends and loved ones gifts for Christmas is never easy, but there are plenty of little gizmos to choose from if they are techni...

Article | 2/11/2011 Seagate Barracuda One brings 1TB per platter, lots of under-the-hood improvements

Seagate today announced its new desktop hard drive range: Barracuda One. The Barracuda One range features drives with an aerial density of up to 1TB p...

Article | 18/09/2008 Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff

Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executive...

Article | 3/08/2011 Toshiba intros 1-terabyte hard disk drive for laptops

Toshiba enters the nascent 1-terabyte laptop hard drive market with the company's first 2.5-inch 1TB HDD, the MQ01ABD. The drive has an industry-stand...

Article | 21/07/2011 Apple's Australian prices for new MacBook Air, new Mac Mini, and new Thunderbolt Display announced

Last night, the online Australian Apple Store mysteriously disappeared... and when it returned, it was packed to the brim with new toys. There's a new...

Article | 21/07/2011 The ultimate Mac OS X Lion news and reviews round-up

OS X Lion is out in Australia, and it comes as standard on all Macs from now on. It's a cheap upgrade for anyone with a pre-existing copy of OS X Snow...

Article | 12/07/2011 JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time

JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performanc...

Article | 13/07/2011 CIOs see promise in public Cloud storage

Three quarters of companies are either currently using or plan to use public cloud storage offerings. What's more, all organizations with more than 50...

Article | 12/07/2011 Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe

IBM never talks about the cost of its high-end mainframes, but when it comes to its low-end mainframe, price is a major focal point.

Article | 13/07/2011 It takes 1m ARM processors to make 1b brain neurons

A group of British researchers led by the daddy of the ARM processor, normally found in smartphones, went to find out how many how many neurons can an...

Article | 11/07/2011 F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances

F5 Networks today announced the release of two new file virtualization appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that features 10-Gig...

Article | 9/07/2011 Asia group launches cloud index, 'cloud map'

Asia's cloud computing industry group recently unveiled two initiatives that can help guide organisations in the region as they consider adopting clou...