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Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft will give one-year warning before killing or changing cloud services

Microsoft will give cloud customers a minimum of 12 months' notice before discontinuing online services, or making any "disruptive" changes or upgrade...

Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip

Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumpti...

Article | 27/01/2011 Hitachi announced 3TB Ultrastar 7K3000 enterprise hard drives

Hitachi GST has today announced its new Ultrastar 7K3000 enterprise-class hard drives, which are designed for use with 24x7 applications in data centr...

Article | 27/01/2011 Seagate: Solid-state disks are doomed (at least for now)

Hard disk manufacturer Seagate has published an extraordinary report all but proving that solid-state disk (SSD) technology will remain niche for the ...

Article | 25/01/2011 Hitachi ships first 3TB enterprise-class SATA hard drive

Hitachi GST today announced the first 3TB enterprise-class hard disk drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000, a 7,200rpm array that comes with either 6Gbit/sec. s...

Article | 27/01/2011 Synology releases compact DS411slim NAS

Synology has released a new 4-bay network-attached storage device. The Synology DiskStation DS411slim NAS device can fit up to four 2.5in hard drives,...

Article | 26/01/2011 IBM to build Asia's largest cloud computing center

IBM and the China-based Range Technology will build a cloud computing data center near Beijing that the companies claim will be Asia's largest by floo...

Article | 25/01/2011 Taiwan's top supercomputer, a research aid, due in July

Government-backed researchers in Taiwan have developed the island's fastest supercomputer to be used from July for a range of scientific and academic ...

Article | 25/01/2011 D-Link releases DNS-320 NAS device

D-Link has started shipping the DNS-320, a 2-bay network-attached storage (NAS) device.

Article | 24/01/2011 IBM rolls out virtual desktop offering

With an eye on the small and medium-sized business market, IBM is working through resellers to roll out a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package...

Article | 19/01/2011 Microsoft, HP selling $2M data warehouse appliance

Microsoft and HP are teaming up to deliver a $2 million data warehouse appliance and four other hardware/software products in a bid to outshine recent...

Article | 20/01/2011 Cisco invests in cloud chip maker

Cisco has invested in Tilera, a developer of multicore processors for cloud computing and communications, as part of the chip maker's $45 million roun...

Article | 20/01/2011 GoGrid offers hosted private cloud

GoGrid has rolled out a hosted private cloud offering, designed to offer customers the benefits of the public cloud on dedicated hardware.

Article | 19/01/2011 Western Digital ships 750GB Scorpio Black notebook drive

Western Digital has begun shipping its new 750GB Scorpio Black hard drives for notebooks. The 2.5in Scorpio Black drives target "creative professional...

Article | 17/01/2011 Symantec unveils backup and storage appliances

Symantec today introduced its NetBackup and FileStore appliances with an eye toward offering customers choices in whether they want to mix and match s...

Article | 14/01/2011 Man stole nude photos from women's e-mail accounts

A California man has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into the e-mail accounts of thousands of women, scouring them for nude photos that he the...

Article | 15/01/2011 IBM supercomputer wins first Jeopardy dust up

The first round goes to the computer.

Article | 15/01/2011 New Cassandra can pack two billion columns into a row

The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to ho...

Article | 14/01/2011 Porn worm extorts money from 2,500 victims

A fast-spreading Russian ransom worm that locks people out of their files has found at least 2,500 victims willing to pay up to get back control of th...

Article | 14/01/2011 Gartner's Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud

Gartner's Magic Quadrant report has placed Amazon's cloud computing service in one of its lower tiers, saying that for all of Amazon's commercial succ...