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Windows 8 to tame storage hassle with 'Spaces' technology
Windows 8 will tame data loss and storage bloat on PCs by offering a simple form of the thin provisioning and virtualisation technology more commonly found tin data centres, Microsoft has said.
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Hitachi GST unveils 2.5in Ultrastar hard drive for data centre use
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has introduced its fastest 10,000 rpm, 2.5-inch hard drive that it said offers up to 18% faster sequential I/O than its predecessors.
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DataDirect Network releases impressive array with 40GB/sec performance
DataDirect Network's new SFA12K series storage array represents a new high-water mark for networked storage performance with the ability to scale to 6.7 petabytes in two racks and offer up to 40GB/sec performance.
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EMC unveils all-SSD VNX, high bandwidth arrays
EMC has announced the availability of an all-solid state drive midrange VNX array with 10X the performance of previous models, as well as a high bandwidth option for its hard drive VNX models, offering 50% more bandwidth.
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Microsoft becomes fifth biggest contributor to Linux kernel development
Microsoft isn't exactly dumping Windows for Linux, but it has become one of the busiest contributors to the Linux kernel.
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EMC's Isilon launches NAS for big data applications
Isilon is shipping two new NAS arrays targeted as big data architectures with high I/O rates and the ability to scale to petabytes in capacity under a single file name.
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Dell to launch PowerEdge microservers
Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditional servers, which use faster, but more power-hungry chips.
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SSD drives difficult to wipe securely, researchers find
Current methods for securely wiping data from magnetic hard disks simply aren't reliable enough to use on solid state drives (SSDs), a detailed study by engineers at the University of California has found.
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Hitachi announces first 3TB enterprise-class SATA hard drive
Hitachi announced its highest density enterprise-class 3.5-in drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000, which comes with SATA or SAS interfaces and can store up to 3TB of data.
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Seagate releases first 2.5-in enterprise hard drive with 1TB of capacity
Seagate today announced the second generation of its Constellation drive, the industry's first 2.5-in enterprise-class drive with 1TB of capacity.
