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Article | 29/05/2009 HP plans to outsource European server production

Hewlett-Packard plans to outsource the production of enterprise storage and servers in Europe in order to cut costs, it said Thursday.

Article | 29/05/2009 SATA 3.0 released, solid state drives rejoice

We've seen glimmers on the horizon for some time now, but the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has finally made official the third iter...

Article | 28/05/2009 Sun and IBM score highest on Greenpeace Cool IT challenge

Sun Microsystems and IBM scored the highest in the Greenpeace Cool IT challenge, which rated IT companies on the technologies they offer for reducing ...

Article | 28/05/2009 EMC inks deal to acquire Configuresoft

EMC Wednesday announced plans to acquire Configuresoft, a maker of server configuration, change and compliance management software, for an undisclosed...

Article | 28/05/2009 SATA 3.0 spec cleared, doubles drive data speed

The Serial ATA International Organization today released the SATA Revision 3.0 specification, which doubles data transfer speeds from 3Gbit/sec. to 6G...

Article | 28/05/2009 Sun unveils entry-level SSD-hybrid storage array

Sun Microsystems Inc. today unveiled a new low-end to its Sun Storage 7000 series of Unified Storage arrays. The new Sun Storage 7310 array allows sol...

Article | 27/05/2009 Asus EeeNAS 1TB backup device joins Atom family

Asustek Computer joined other NAS (network attached storage) device makers such as QNAP and Acer by showing off a new NAS that uses Intel's low-power,...

Article | 28/05/2009 OWC unveils its fastest, highest-capacity mobile drive

Other World Computing (OWC) today released its highest capacity, fastest, bus-powered portable external drive, the Mercury On-The-Go Pro, which offers...

Article | 27/05/2009 Intel's Nehalem EX to gain error correction technology

Intel's eight-core Nehalem EX server processor will include a technology derived from its high-end Itanium chips that helps to reduce data corruption ...

Article | 26/05/2009 Users set to ditch tape for online storage

Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.

Article | 22/05/2009 MIT: Cloud computing to reshape IT

A panel of experts yesterday said that more companies would look to cloud computing in the near future because of its potential cost savings and its a...

Article | 22/05/2009 Federal CIOs still face cloud computing hurdles

U.S. government agencies want to use more cloud-computing services, but several hurdles still stand in the way, including the U.S. government's budget...

Article | 22/05/2009 Researchers use nanotech to create 'fifth dimension' data storage

A team of researchers from an Australian university has developed a new DVD technology that could someday boost disc capacity by 10,000 times beyond t...

Article | 22/05/2009 IBM touts SSD data management software for its servers, arrays

IBM is now providing management software across all of its servers and storage arrays that identifies the most highly accessed data applications and m...

Article | 22/05/2009 Intel once again delays Itanium chip

After multiple delays, Intel on Thursday once again pushed back the release of its next-generation Itanium server chip to the first quarter of 2010.

Article | 22/05/2009 IBM SSDs spread across product lines

IBM on Thursday continued its push into SSDs (solid-state drives), announcing flash drives for server and storage platforms as well as new software fo...

Article | 22/05/2009 VMware pulls trigger on vSphere 'cloud OS'

After eight months of hype VMware has finally delivered the update to its core virtualization platform, announcing Thursday that vSphere 4 is generall...

Article | 21/05/2009 Verizon enhances cloud-based management

Verizon Business on Wednesday gave customers of its Private IP services new options for managing and securing their networks with cloud-based tools.

Article | 21/05/2009 NetApp to acquire Data Domain for $1.5 billion

Storage vendor NetApp has agreed to acquire Data Domain, a maker of disk-based backup products, for about US$1.5 billion, the companies announced Wedn...

Article | 20/05/2009 Avocent launches tool to manage data centres

Management specialist Avocent has launched a new tool aimed at helping data centre administrators to manage a variety of resources within their data c...