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    IBM flash memory breaks 1 million IOPS barrier 29/08/2008 08:29:00

    IBM claims to shatter record for fastest storage
    IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that's delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage.
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    Banks mining cash from their computer gear 29/08/2008 09:10:00

    IBM buying up equipment, leasing it back to financial institutions
    In another sign of a tight economy, even those that have the money are getting creative with their IT resources in order to find a little financial wiggle room.
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    Cisco buys into e-mail with PostPath acquisition 28/08/2008 08:06:00

    Acquisition of PostPath will add e-mail and calendaring to Cisco's in-the-cloud collaboration portfolio
    Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for US$215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.
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    Samsung: Market for SSDs in low-cost PCs exploding 28/08/2008 10:56:00

    Samsung launched 3 new SSDs for low-cost PCs, saying the computers are driving explosive growth in SSD sales.
    The popularity of low-cost PCs around the world is driving "explosive growth" for SSDs (small capacity solid state drives), Samsung said Wednesday as it announced three new models of the device.
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    Storage market thrives in down economy 27/08/2008 09:10:00

    Customer buying fueled by digital information growth, efficiency needs
    The storage market is thriving despite a tough economy, as exploding digital information growth has forced customers to add more capacity and upgrade to newer storage systems that are faster and more efficient, analysts say.
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    EMC releases new multi-protocol NAS array aimed at SMBs 27/08/2008 08:03:00

    The NX4 is based on the Clariion AX4 array.
    EMC Tuesday announced a further move down market with the latest iteration of its Celerra network-attacked storage (NAS) server. The Celerra NX4 Unified Storage System, which is based on EMC's entry-level Clariion AX4 storage array, is aimed at the small and midsize business market, EMC said.
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    Could 'fat-tree' switch setup trim data center costs? 25/08/2008 14:13:00

    Principles behind clustered computing could be applied to network architecture to improve scalability and performance.
    Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.
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    Talend readies open-source tool to tackle dirty data 25/08/2008 08:44:00

    Talend coupling its Data Quality tool with the Talend Open Profiler software.
    Open source data integration vendor Talend has unveiled a tool aimed at scrubbing dirty data from corporate information repositories.
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    SSDs are hot, but not without security risks 25/08/2008 09:29:00

    Experts caution that SSDs aren't as secure as commonly thought.
    Solid-state drives are fast becoming popular replacements for hard drives, especially in laptops, but experts caution that SSDs aren't as secure as commonly thought.
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    RFID's new utility in the datacenter 22/08/2008 14:50:00

    The number one growth category of RFID is now found in the tagging of IT assets.
    When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags.
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    Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloud 22/08/2008 08:30:00

    Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature that will allow its cloud computing service to host more types of applications.
    Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature for its EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud, which should allow developers to use its hosted computing services for a much broader range of applications.
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