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Chip, set and match



Sylvie Barak THE INQUIRER

Chip, set and match



Yes, Utah

The ultra-secretive National Security Agency plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah as it seeks to decentralize its computing resources and tap regions with ample supplies of lower-cost electricity.…

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Big brands want little chip



12big product triple

External storage supplier LaCie has entered the rack world with a trio of products.…

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Farewell Western Digital

A Western Digital plant in Sarawak, Malaysia, has been sold to Hitachi GST.…

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Sylvie Barak THE INQUIRER

New technology is hard



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Ion 2 die shrink for



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Ion 2 die shrink for



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Socket to 'em



SoC problem makes for schedule jam

An investment bank briefing note says that Seagate has suffered a setback in its solid state drive (SSD) development project and may not ship product for testing until 2010, having previously said it will announce its enterprise SSD this year.…

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Resistance is futile



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Resistance is futile



And it wants to build yours, too

Unisys may have not taken over the world as either a system maker or an outsourcer, but it's a player in both markets and it doesn't want the move to cloud computing to leave it behind.…

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Six of one and half a dozen of the other



Disclosure-style sniff-around to make backup fun again

Printer company Ricoh reckons you should be able to search visually for photos and files much like flipping through a photo album. It has started up a beta test in the USA for its snazzy quanp online storage service with 3D views of uploaded files.…

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And run Linux of course



Hot-swap UltraFlex

EMC has confirmed industry suspicious that is developing a hot-swap Ultraflex FCoE module for its storage arrays.…

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Taiwanese car boot sale



Leaves Amazonian play to the Amazons

Well, it's the end of June, and Cisco Systems' "California" Unified Computing System blade boxes and related networking is supposed to be shipping. In a webcast today with analysts, partners, and press that's part of a two-day analyst event called Cisco Live, representatives ignored two questions from El Reg about whether or not the California boxes were still shipping, but they did want to talk about cloud computing and how California, WebEx, and networking in general fit into the company's cloud strategy.…

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No chillers? No problem

Structure 09  Google is developing some sort of back-end technology that automatically - and nearly instantly - redistributes live compute loads when a data center is in danger of overheating. Or maybe this is just talk. Google prefers to at least maintain the illusion of data-center nirvana.…

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Holy web gadgets, Batman!



Waves around own 34nm process NAND

With Intel rumoured to be set to raise its SSD capacity up to 320GB through a shrink to a 34nm process, its Flash partner Micron has introduced - guess what - NAND chips using a 34nm process.…

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Now lawyers can divorce techies

Mimosa has overhauled NearPoint, its archiving and eDiscovery software platform product, so that lawyers and compliance officers can analyse data without having to call on techies.…

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Updated with benchmark results AMD woos prominent overclockers



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Firms reviewing their situation



Madame, will you talk?

Broadcom has gone ahead and raised its $9.25/share all-cash Emulex bid to $11.00/share, the upper end of the expected range.…

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A bunch of different AMIs for the masses

In the wake of the launch of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release earlier this month, the open source Solaris project has packaged up a bunch of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) virtual machines based on OpenSolaris so they can be deployed on the ECS compute cloud.…

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Things get dense

HDS has added a raft of incremental upgrades to its AMS2000 line of mid-range storage arrays.…

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Oof to Austin then