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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...
Article | 3/03/2011 Program links small manufacturers with supercomputers
About US$4.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce and private companies will create a program to link small manufacturers in the U.S...
Article | 2/03/2011 Buffalo Terastations push limits of Atom platform
Buffalo Technology is bumping up against the limits of Intel's Atom platform with its forthcoming six- and eight-bay Terastation NAS (network attached...
Article | 2/03/2011 Google to let Apps customers buy extra storage for Docs
Google will soon start letting Apps users buy additional storage for some of the applications in the hosted collaboration and communication suite.
Article | 28/02/2011 Can data stored on an SSD be secured?
Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that ...
Article | 1/03/2011 Intel unveils next gen SSDs with 6Gbit/sec throughput
Intel Monday announced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput...
Article | 28/02/2011 SeaMicro's new server has latest Intel Atom N570 chip
SeaMicro on Monday announced a low-power server that includes 256 of Intel's latest Atom N570 dual-core processors.
Article | 26/02/2011 Intel plots 'client-aware' cloud services
Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter.
Article | 25/02/2011 Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds
With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and re...
Article | 25/02/2011 Apple yanks MobileMe storage service from retail
Apple today pulled the retail version of its MobileMe sync and storage service from its online store, and dropped the service from the list of optiona...
Article | 25/02/2011 Gartner: Server sales kept bouncing back in Q4
Worldwide server revenue and unit shipments continued a yearlong recovery in the fourth quarter of 2010, but growth is likely to slow this year, resea...
Article | 24/02/2011 Even Microsoft's CIO struggles with cloud, consumer devices
He may run IT for one of the best-known names in technology, but even Microsoft's CIO is grappling with new technology challenges like moving to the c...
Article | 23/02/2011 Rack-mount QNAP storage server packs a wallop
There's an area of the NAS landscape where the lines between consumer and corporate use are blurred. While high-end NAS arrays cost plenty of money, t...
Article | 23/02/2011 Microsoft offers free Azure trial
Recalling all those AOL disks promising hundreds of hours of free usage (minus the disks), Microsoft is offering up to 750 free hours of use on its Az...
Article | 22/02/2011 Acer returning to U.S. server market
Acer, the No. 4 PC maker in the U.S., has released a line of servers and storage products for this market.
Article | 19/02/2011 Brain behind IBM's Watson not unlike a human's
IBM's Watson supercomputer, which shellacked Jeopardy's top human champions during airings of the game show this week, is powered by 90 servers and a ...
Article | 19/02/2011 IBM's Watson makes it official -- humanity is toast
"I for one welcome our new computer overlords" -- that's a quote from Ken Jennings, the guy who used to be the world's biggest "Jeopardy" egghead unti...

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