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Article | 18/03/2011 Dell reveals its storage roadmap, acquisition integration plans

Over the last year, Dell acquired clustered storage vendor Exanet, data compression vendor Ocarina and SAN vendor Compellent .

Article | 18/03/2011 Internet databases MongoDB, Drizzle upgraded

Two performance-minded databases created for supporting Internet services and cloud computing have been revised: MongoDB has been updated and Drizzle ...

Article | 17/03/2011 Google to add offline storage to Apps by year end

Google is working to restore offline storage capabilities for its Apps productivity software and should have it done by the end of the year, according...

Article | 17/03/2011 Google revamps Docs comments feature

Google has upgraded the ability to post comments and respond to them in its Docs office productivity applications, making the feature more dynamic and...

Article | 17/03/2011 Storage switches bounce back in 2010, helped by Cisco

The sale of switches and adapters for use in storage area networks (SAN) "rebounded nicely" in 2010, after a drop in 2009, according to data from Info...

Article | 16/03/2011 SSD maker OCZ to buy controller company Indilinx

Solid-state drive (SSD) maker OCZ Technology Group announced this week it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Indilinx, a maker of popul...

Article | 16/03/2011 New flash specification doubles SSD data transfer speed

A flash memory working group announced a new interface specification on Tuesday that could speed up data transfers from flash storage products such as...

Article | 16/03/2011 Seagate updates drives in biggest-ever refresh

Seagate today announced five product refreshes that include both its solid-state drive (SSD) line and its high-performance, midrange and high-capacity...

Article | 16/03/2011 New Seagate solid state drives mean business

Seagate has unveiled new models of its Pulsar line of solid state drives (SSD) -- delivering performance, endurance, and reliability that business can...

Article | 16/03/2011 Facebook nixes virtualization, eyes Intel microservers

Facebook is bucking the trend toward server virtualization and is interested in microservers for inexpensive growth and quick failover, the company's ...

Article | 16/03/2011 Google Apps slammed by advocacy group for the blind

The National Federation of the Blind claims that Google Apps lacks required features for blind people and wants the U.S. government to investigate whe...

Article | 16/03/2011 Intel targeting security in the cloud with McAfee

Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cy...

Article | 12/03/2011 Calxeda's ARM chips designed for 480-core servers

Calxeda on Friday revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cor...

Article | 10/03/2011 Dell: ARM servers could face software issues

Dell is experimenting with chips based on ARM processors in its servers, but the architecture faces software issues that could stop it from being a vi...

Article | 9/03/2011 External storage is back from recession, Gartner says

External controller-based disk storage has recovered from the global recession, exceeding the record sales figure from 2008 with revenue in 2010 of mo...

Article | 7/03/2011 Storage software market grew 10 percent in Q4, says IDC

The storage software market recorded its fifth successive quarter of year-on-year growth at the end of 2010 with all five of the top-ranked players in...

Article | 5/03/2011 Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010

Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7 per cent increase over 2009, according to a report releas...

Article | 7/03/2011 Erase data permanently with SecureClean

It's well-known that "deleting" a file from Windows doesn't fully remove it, but you may not understand just how much data can remain on your disk aft...

Article | 5/03/2011 Intel courts the cloud builders

In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of a group of small Intel data centers known colle...

Article | 4/03/2011 Amazon hooks into VMware's management platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware's management platform, AWS said o...