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Article | 22/07/2008 Windows Home Server update fixes data-corruption issue

Microsoft has released an update to Windows Home Server that fixes a data-corruption problem some users were having with the software.

Article | 21/07/2008 Forrester: Five storage strategies that will save you money

Storage costs eat up at least 11 per cent of IT hardware budgets, but there are plenty of ways to save money without sacrificing performance or securi...

Article | 18/07/2008 Solid State Drives accelerate into market

SSDs (Solid State Drives) will change the face of mobile computing one day, by making high-capacity storage more reliable, dramatically increasing the...

Article | 17/07/2008 IBM and Sun each claim to develop 'first' 1TB tape drive

Both IBM and Sun this week claim to have developed the "first one terabyte storage tape drive," but Sun will get its drive on the market a little bit ...

Article | 17/07/2008 Microsoft updates servers with latest Search features

Microsoft has released three bundles of fixes and new features for its server products.

Article | 17/07/2008 HP to offer data center-in-a-box

Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add...

Article | 16/07/2008 Windows update servers score 100 per cent uptime, beat competitors

Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, a Swedish uptime monitoring compan...

Article | 10/07/2008 From desktop to data centre: SA's green IT revolution

If you're pining over how to go green and reduce your organization's energy consumption, consider how IT can be used to reduce power inside and out of...

Article | 3/07/2008 Energy Star for servers may be ready by year-end, EPA says

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more compreh...

Article | 2/07/2008 Japanese military loses data again

Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.

Article | 2/07/2008 Dell simplifies blade server management with virtualization

Dell is releasing an I/O virtualization tool for its blade servers, making it easier for IT managers to install new blades and swap out servers.

Article | 17/06/2008 Blu-ray price-slash -- Sony announces significant price drops for desktop Blu-ray drives

Sony Australia has announced significant price drops for its two internal desktop Blu-ray drives; the BWU200S and BDUX10S. The new suggested retail pr...

Article | 16/06/2008 Ultrafast storage fuels movie's battle scenes

Hired by Marvel Entertainment to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen, officials at the Soho VFX special effects...

Article | 13/06/2008 Pepsi bottler swallows skepticism, gives virtualization a go

Christian Messer was a virtualization skeptic not long ago. Now he swears by virtual servers.

Article | 12/06/2008 Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8-in. hard drive

Toshiba plans to introduce two new 1.8-in. hard drives, which the company claims can reduce the storage footprint in ultra-portable and sub-notebook P...

Article | 10/06/2008 Strong demand for drives propels storage revenue

Despite a slowdown in server shipments, disk-based storage revenue grew during the first quarter of 2008, with companies like Dell cashing in on the i...

Article | 10/06/2008 IBM breaks petaflop record - now, what about the exaflop?

Now that IBM has broken supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, capable of more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sus...

Article | 3/06/2008 Explosion has data center scrambling, users venting

The Planet.com Internet Services hopes to have all 9,000 of its servers in its Houston data center back online later Monday night following a blast th...

Article | 4/06/2008 VMware, Tripwire offer free VM configuration tool

Tripwire and VMware have teamed up to produce a free tool that VMware customers can use to automatically audit the security configuration of physical ...

Article | 5/06/2008 Sun to embed flash storage in nearly all its servers

Sun will release a 32GB flash storage drive this year and make flash storage an option for nearly every server the vendor produces, Sun officials are ...