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EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability
Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.
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Researchers discover possible route to terahertz storage speeds
A team of Iowa State University researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, recently detailed a way to use ultra-short laser pulses and special materials to switch magnetism roughly 1,000 times faster than current-generation storage devices.
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Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20G bps (bits per second).
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Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse generally available
Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments.
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AMD granted restraining order against former employees in trade secrets lawsuit
AMD has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are alleged to have left the company to join Nvidia with confidential documents and trade secrets.
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Lenovo, EMC extend joint venture to add co-branded NAS devices
EMC and Lenovo are expanding the joint LenovoEMC Ltd. venture to include co-branded NAS products for SMBs and the distributed enterprise.
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Call of Duty hacker charged with DDoS attacks on UK Universities
A 20 year-old already imprisoned for a series of computer-related crimes has been charged with launching separate DDoS attacks on Kent Police and Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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NASA rushes to encrypt laptops after major security breach
NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a "large" number of people was recently stolen.
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Intel announces reference platform for storage servers
Intel has announced a storage server reference platform that third-party vendors can use to make servers for home entertainment or centralised backup on a network.
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Thunderbolt not yet feasible for smartphones and tablets, Intel says
Thunderbolt interconnect technology could take a while to reach smartphones and tablets because of power consumption issues that need to be resolved, Intel executives said yesterday.
