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Tech so secret, even DHS project chief knows naught

Dastardly terrorists and/or incompetent drivers can no longer hope that the evidence of their catastrophic misdeeds, recorded by security cameras aboard public transport, will be erased in the hellish conflagrations following train wrecks and bus crashes.…

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Partnering with Symwave

The dreary wait for slow desktop and notebook booting could be halted in its tracks for those with USB 3 interfaces and and cash, as OCZ is developing a fast and large capacity USB 3 SSD.…

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One holding company to bind them all

EMC is reorganising its various international operations into a single holding company and repatriating $4bn to EMC USA at a cost of $100m in taxes.…

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Are we clear on that?

A Xiotech blog post says unequivocally that Xiotech will not be using solid state drives (SSDs) in its Emprise arrays in the near future.…

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Nehalem replaces FPGA hardware

DataDirect, a shipper of very high-speed block-access storage to the high performance computing (HPC) and media worlds, is now offering native file access.…

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Hurd hails 3Com 'convergence'

Comment  Well, it looks the enterprise slammed on the server spending brakes a lot quicker and a lot harder than smaller outfits this fall.…

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Gotta Steel yourself

Adaptec has suddenly fired John Noellert, its worldwide sales boss, and Adaptec's CEO has been voted off the board.…

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Everything else takes a swim

Hewlett-Packard's profits grew 14 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter, boosted by corporate cost-cutting and solid performance by its enormous services unit.…

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New storage boxes are bigger on the inside

Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro. It now claims to provide the simplest and best value iSCSI SAN in the world.…

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Cramming eight on a card

Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.…

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USB 2.0 wireless

Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.…

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AIX pipeline lubrication

In an effort to boost the amount of money that IBM is getting from competitive takeouts of Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, Big Blue has taken a sharp machete to the memory prices on its Power Systems, reducing prices by between 28 and 70 per cent.…

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Virtual Steelhead speeds iSCSI WAN traffic

WAN optimiser Riverbed has announced virtual Steelhead for the cloud and a way to speed up iSCSI data traffic.…

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2TB of on-board storage - add more using eSata

Updated  Asus has taken the wraps off a home server build out of an Atom processor and up to 2TB of internal storage.…

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$9m series B funding round

Axxana - the startup manufacturing the Phoenix RP black box data centre data recorder which can withstand a jumbo jet crash - has just received $9m in a funding round to help it take off.…

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To lose one is unfortunate, to lose two looks like carelessness

Atrato has replaced its sales VP, Marty Sos, after just three months, and recruited a marketing VP as well.…

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Computer says whoa

The Federal Aviation Administration has blamed a computer glitch for flight delays across the US today.…

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Mighty strong quarter there

NetApp recorded more than doubled profits for its second fiscal 2010 quarter, out-performing its largest competitors and beating its own plans and Wall Street’s expectations alike.…

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Wants to be a bigger player in the big drive market

Toshiba is planning to enter the high-capacity enterprise 3.5-inch hard disk drive market.…

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System zware boost

IBM is sweeping cobwebs off big iron with a host of new software products and updates aimed at streamlining maintenance and squeezing more workloads out of the System z mainframe.…

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The world's most closed open company

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Google offers the world a web service, large numbers of people will convince themselves that it's superior to anything else they can get their hands on - and less likely to condemn them to some sort of Redmondian future in which a single corporation has them in a metaphorical vice grip.…

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Living together, not marriage

NetApp and Fujitsu are partnering to integrate some of their products, enable faster data centre server system deployment, and develop a joint go-to-market strategy.…

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At least a little

Quantum has entered the small tape library market with products that provide more than the everyday 2 and 4U boxes offered by everybody else.…

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2TB drives in the house

Isilon has doubled the capacity of its largest clusterable network-attached storage (NAS) system by using 2TB drives.…

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New CEO means new marketeer

Comment  Incoming Xiotech CEO Alan Atkinson has replaced Xiotech's head marketeer with an IBM recruit.…

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Play now, play later - much later

PDC  Microsoft is fiddling around with the launch dates of the highly anticipated Windows Azure while showing off the cloud service's latest advances.…

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