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Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs
Mozilla patched five vulnerabilities, three of them critical, in older editions of Firefox and in the process extended the support life of...
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Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Most Windows 7 PCs max out their memory, resulting in performance bottlenecks, a researcher said. Citing data from Devil Mountain Software’s community-based...
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Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers
A storage virtualization start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data...
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Google CEO preaches ‘mobile first’
Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile devices squarely at the center of the computing universe in his first keynote at Mobile World...
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SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says
Thanks to Moore’s Law, the speed of server processors is advancing so fast that they threaten to "“drown" storage systems, which have...
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IDC: Storage Efficiency Demand Drives Deduplication Adoption
According to new survey results from IDC, over 60% of respondents are either in the process of deduplicating or have plans to...
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Seagate doubles capacity of data centre hard drive
The Savvio10.4K 2.5-in serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drive, aimed at external storage arrays, also increases meantime before failures (MTBF) by 25% compared to...
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Overland Storage releases its first iSCSI SAN
The 2U (3.5-in high) rack mountable system comes in 12TB and 24TB capacities using serial ATA or serial-attached SCSI hard disk drives....
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Dell looks to buy clustered storage vendor Exanet
According to a Dell spokesman, the company has submitted an offer to purchase Israel-based Exanet’s assets, primarily patents and other intellectual property...
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Intel to release storage-specific processor
Intel mentioned its storage chip’s impending release as part of its announcement Tuesday that it was going to market with its long-awaited...
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EMC’s Atmos gains more efficient data protection
Atmos is a hardware and software system, used mostly by service providers, for storing unstructured data across many locations. Atmos 1.3, due...
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Mobile traffic helps push up optical demand
Demand for high-speed links to cell sites and homes will rejuvenate sales of optical network equipment this year and help to create...
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HP opens first ever wind-cooled data centre
From the outside, Hewlett-Packard’s newest data center looks like a massive, well-secured loading dock, devoid of logos and surrounded by a robust...
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IBM acquires Intelliden to boost network automation
IBM has acquired Intelliden, a network automation software vendor, and will integrate the company’s technology into its Tivoli Software group. Intelliden was...
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HP upgrades entry level, mid-range arrays
Hewlett-Packard Co. upgraded to its entry-level modular storage array, and added network failover features to its midrange array via its SAN/iQ SAN...