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IBM announced a host of improvements to its line of storage offerings aimed at businesses large and small. The enhancements provide greater efficiency in tiered storage infrastructures that bring businesses increased cost savings, integrated data security and enhanced archival solutions, according t...
Panasonic has unveiled the world's fastest Secure Digital High Capacity card, with a whopping 32 GB of memory. The new card, to be released April, will comply with the Class 6 speed specification of the SD Card Association, which develops and publishes technical standards for SD card technology. Cla...
HP released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, which will allow companies to more cost-efficiently consolidate their legacy systems. The HP Integrity BL870c, which is the latest HP BladeSystem server, uses a specifically engineered Intel Itanium processor to power the its four-socket serve...
I've had a little time to think about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger, why this makes sense and what could go wrong. This thing actually should be one of the easiest mergers of its type, and there is actually a strange amount of affinity, often taken for granted, between these two firms that most seem to...
In 2005, notebook computers accounted for 50.1 percent of all computer sales. In 2006, shelf space for notebooks increased 44 percent while desktop shelf space went down by 23 percent. What does this have to do with a data center? Everything. At Journyx, where I manage IT, we presently have about 25...
Intel and Micron have developed a high-speed NAND flash memory technology the two say is five times faster than conventional NAND. The technology, jointly developed by the two companies as part of their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, will allow data to be transferred faster for computing, vide...
Cisco Systems released a new data center switching technology designed to make it easier for IT network managers to create a centralized data storage center. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is part of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, which reverses the previous client-server side architecture that many d...
Desktops crash all the time, but e-mail is forever. Or so some 14,000 customers of Charter Communications may have thought until they tried to log on recently and found their messages and photos gone and never to return. It was a software glitch during routine maintenance that caused Charter to perm...
Information infrastructure solution provider EMC introduced the enterprise version of its Mozy online backup product Tuesday: MozyEnterprise, powered by EMC Fortress. "Our strategy is focused on bringing new Software as a Service offerings to market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, senior vice pre...
I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop. I personally think the impact of the improvements to Apple TV and seemingly Apple-led m...
Dell and storage manufacturing partner EMC launched new entry-level storage area network solutions aimed at small and medium-sized businesses Tuesday branded for each hardware maker. EMC's CLARiiON AX4 and Dell's AX4-5 are intended to meet the growing demand for storage capacity driven by both SMBs ...
Change may no longer be the only constant; danger is proving omnipresent and therefore a constant variable in enterprise IT planning. "In today's world where a shooter can walk in the front door of a church and open fire, there is really no place that is safe," Henry Dewing, analyst at Forrester Res...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has created what it calls an "industry milestone:" a 2.5-inch computer hard drive capable of storing a whopping 500 GB of data. It also has struck a deal with computer vendor Asus, which will sell a notebook PC equipped with two of the drives. The new Travelstar 5...
Consumers hoping to safeguard their holiday memories by storing pictures on their Windows Home Servers may instead want to save those files on their PCs' hard drives. A post made on Microsoft's WHS blog warns users that WHS contains a heretofore undiscovered file corruption bug. Although engineers a...
Enterprises house vast amounts of information, the secure and timely handling of which is key to their core business -- especially as it relates to sensitive personal and financial data. As a result, an enterprise's IT developer community has transformed into the role of compliance enforcer and prot...