Stories by: Chris Mellor

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Solid-state vendor grabs storage world record 30 January, 2008 13:26:17

Solid state disk vendor Texas Memory Systems has claimed an SPC benchmark world record using industry standard server and network hardware.
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The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison To Google. 24 January, 2008 13:01:56

Nick Carr's The Big Switch suggests that every organisation concerned with computer storage will find that the everyday business market for storage will cease to exist. You who are reading this will no longer be involved with buying, operating, managing or servicing DAS, NAS, SAN, clustered file systems, tape backups or optical storage. I who am writing about it now won't be in the future. Techworld (and Computerworld) itself will undergo substantial modification or die.
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Intel 'energy-efficient' claim debunked 17 January, 2008 07:21:41

After Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, bragged that Intel's Xeon chip was the most energy-efficient processor, Neal Nelson compared it to AMD's offering and found that Intel wasn't being exactly truthful.
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FalconStor and Virtual Iron buddy up 11 January, 2008 06:33:03

In a move that reinforces the connection between server and storage virtualization, Virtual Iron has announced a global alliance with FalconStor. Each company will reference-sell the other's products.
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HP muses stake in struggling supplier 09 January, 2008 10:35:03

HP is considering taking a stake in struggling drive array supplier, Dot Hill, paving the way for a possible expansion of its SME storage products.
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HP looks to SMBs with new shared storage 13 December, 2007 09:18:34

HP is preparing to launch a new MSA2000 disk array product family for clustered servers, which it is targeting at SMB deployments and remote offices.
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CentricStor combines disk and tape backup 06 December, 2007 08:05:05

Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has overhauled its CentricStor virtual tape appliance and now offers backup to either disk or tape with the product. It is the only product to combine automated tape and disk backup in one offering.
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Networked storage a thing of the past? 26 November, 2007 07:00:40

French startup Seanodes has a product to combine storage on many Linux servers into a single shared pool of storage, making networked storage unnecessary.
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Rackspace: a realistic green pioneer 23 November, 2007 11:31:39

Rackspace provides datacentre facilities under a managed hosting scheme. It is building a new UK datacentre and has had a green aspect to its business for about a year and a half. How is that affecting its operations?
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Western Digital launches power-efficient disk drives 23 November, 2007 09:20:42

Western Digital has announced new hard drives using up to 40 percent less power than competing drives.
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Isilon launches world's biggest NAS cluster 21 November, 2007 06:00:24

Isilon has launched the largest clustered network-attached storage (NAS) system in the world with a potential 2.3PB capacity if all 96 nodes have expansion cabinets attached.