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Article | 14/12/2011 TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds
Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds, the company said on Tuesday.
Article | 12/12/2011 Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, thr...
Article | 10/12/2011 Big data has potential but requires care
The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order...
Article | 9/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Economy weighs on chip, PC sector
After several days of gains, tech stocks dropped Thursday as markets declined on disappointing news from Europe, where government officials are meetin...
Article | 8/12/2011 EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics
The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad rang...
Article | 7/12/2011 Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers
Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by ...
Article | 3/12/2011 IDC: Storage growth slowing to normal
Growth in sales of enterprise disk storage slowed in the third quarter as the industry returned to normal patterns after recovering from the recession...
Article | 2/12/2011 Western Digital warns of slow recovery in Thailand
Hard-drive maker Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but also warned that some of its operations were still...
Article | 23/11/2011 Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage
The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices...
Article | 15/11/2011 Huawei buys out Symantec in joint venture
Huawei Technologies will buy out the rest of a joint venture with Symantec for US$530 million, the companies announced on Monday.
Article | 1/11/2011 Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm
The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentia...
Article | 28/10/2011 LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce
Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI Corp. today announced it will acquire SandForce, the leading maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class a...
Article | 20/10/2011 EC approves Seagate acquisition of Samsung drive business
The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, afte...
Article | 18/10/2011 Western Digital extends suspension of operations in Thailand
Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the po...
Article | 13/10/2011 Thailand floods may affect global electronics production
Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspendin...