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Article | 1/07/2009 Hitachi Data Systems intros modular storage enhancements

Hitachi Data Systems introduced enhancements across hardware and software to its Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. "The Hitachi Adaptable Modular...

Article | 2/07/2009 IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing

IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs.

Article | 1/07/2009 Broadcom raises Emulex buyout offer to $925M

Network components manufacturer Emulex Corp. today said its board of directors will review a new takeover bid by Broadcom Corp., which raised its offe...

Article | 1/07/2009 Western Digital introduces dual drive NAS device

Western Digital introduced its newly redesigned My Book® World Edition II dual- drive network storage system in capacities of up to 4 TB. With the dou...

Article | 1/07/2009 Samsung ditches 1.8in hard drives

Samsung is thought to have stopped production of 1.8in hard disk drives (HDD) in favour of solid state drives (SSD).

Article | 30/06/2009 Virtuoso travel network picks Liquid Computing for data center

Virtuoso Ltd., an online network for luxury travel, recently chose a unified computing infrastructure from Liquid Computing instead of shopping for su...

Article | 30/06/2009 Microsoft to open two new data centers

After postponing the development of one data center and losing a couple of high-level managers in its data center group, Microsoft said it will soon o...

Article | 30/06/2009 DiskShred offers mobile disk destruction service

One company is offering to resolve the perennial problem of how companies can securely dispose of old hard drives containing valuable commercial data,...

Article | 30/06/2009 Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities

Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University opened the Data Center Observatory – an answer to the ever-rising operational costs in IT. Administrative ...

Article | 26/06/2009 PC shipments showing signs of recovery, Gartner says

The PC market is showing signs of recovery, with the freefall of PC shipments skidding to a halt thanks to competitive PC prices and a continued inter...

Article | 26/06/2009 Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says

"Cloud" has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because "everyone can draw one," according to Russ Daniels, the cloud serv...

Article | 15/01/2009 Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud

Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is ext...

Article | 29/01/2009 Cloud computing shapes up as big trend for 2009

It is still early in the year, but cloud computing already is shaping up as a key trend for 2009.

Article | 2/03/2009 Avanade MD makes his case for cloud computing

With Microsoft increasingly talking up cloud computing it is not unexpected that Avanade, the consultancy dedicated to using the Microsoft platform, a...

Article | 11/02/2009 The cloud-SOA connection

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, indus...

Article | 24/06/2009 Samsung, Numonyx to develop PCM specifications

Samsung Electronics and Numonyx on Tuesday said the companies would jointly develop specifications for phase-change memory, an upcoming memory technol...

Article | 24/06/2009 IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings

The world's two most powerful computers have not been surpassed in 2009, but the latest edition of the Top 500 supercomputer list shows a new entry in...

Article | 24/06/2009 Software sales drop, but Oracle beats expectations

Oracle reported a 13 percent dip in new software sales Tuesday, but posted quarterly financial results that were ahead of analyst expectations.

Article | 24/06/2009 Germany, Saudi Arabia muscle into Top500 supercomputer list

Computers in Germany and Saudi Arabia are now among the fastest in the world, but the bi-annual Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputer...

Article | 23/06/2009 Samsung releases SSDs in PCIe card form factor

Samsung Corp. today released a new solid state disk (SSD) drive aimed at netbook makers that is about 80% smaller than typical 2.5-inch laptop drives,...