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Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor

A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan.

By Jay Alabaster | 25 May, 2012 10:17

Tags: robotics, popular science, Future Robotics Technology Center

Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon

Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.

By Agam Shah | 24 May, 2012 19:23

Tags: smartphones, processors, nvidia, Fujitsu, consumer electronics, Components

FujiFilm camera design to withstand water, shock, dust, freezing temperatures

FujiFilm said Wednesday it will begin sales of a digital camera in June that is waterproof, shockproof, sealed against dust and sand, and works at temperatures below freezing.

By Jay Alabaster | 23 May, 2012 13:22

Tags: popular science, digital cameras, consumer electronics, fujifilm

VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2012 11:06

Tags: desktop virtualization, Virtualization, system management, software, mergers and acquisitions, business issues, Wanova, VMware

60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to an IHS iSuppli storage space market report published Monday.

By Lucas Mearian | 23 May, 2012 01:27

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, iSuppli, IHS

EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

Tags: Syncplicity, storage, mergers and acquisitions, internet, EMC, cloud computing, business issues

EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

At its annual user conference today, EMC announced upgrades across most of its major product lines, including a new high-end Symmetrix VMAX array with up to 4PB capacity and twice the performance of its predecessor.

By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2012 23:11

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

Shades of Mission Impossible.

By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

Tags: storage, security

3 Factors Pushing Indian IT Infrastructure Market to $3 bn by 2016

Gartner recently announced that the Indian IT infrastructure market comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment will reach $2.05 billion (approximately INR 13,500 crore) in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase over 2011. It also mentioned that this is expected to reach $3.01 billion (approximately INR 16,200 crore) by 2016.

By Anup Varier | 18 May, 2012 00:20

Tags: storage, networking, hardware systems

Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

Tags: VMware, storage, Networked Storage, network-attached storage

NetSuite rolls out commerce-as-a-service platform

NetSuite is going up against vendors such as Demandware in the market for cloud-based e-commerce platforms, announcing a new product, SuiteCommerce, during the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2012 02:35

Tags: Venda, software, netsuite, Internet-based applications and services, internet, enterprise resource planning, Demandware, cloud computing, applications

Up next for the Cloud: Big data analytics?

In an effort to diversify its Cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable Cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the Cloud.

By Brandon Butler | 11 May, 2012 06:31

Tags: Time Warner Cable, time warner, NaviSite, internet, Intel, hardware systems, EMC, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud storage, cloud computing, big data analytics

EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

Advancing its roadmap toward increased use of flash storage, EMC today announced that it has purchased start-up all-flash array maker XtremIO.

By Lucas Mearian | 11 May, 2012 03:14

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

If you want to speed up your PC but don't want to deal with a new hybrid hard drive, one way is to simply add an SSD cache drive to your PC. These drives aren't meant to be mass storage devices; instead, they cache your most frequent application operations and thereby improve performance.

By Bill O'Brien | 10 May, 2012 21:03

Tags: storage software, Storage Management, Storage Hardware, storage

Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

Tags: Virtualization, texas memory systems, Storage Hardware, storage, software, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, databases, applications

Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.

By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 06:27

Tags: storage, SSD, seagate, Drives

OCZ releases performance-boosting SSD firmware, new 64GB drive

OCZ Technology today released a firmware upgrade for its Vertex 4 line of solid-state drives (SSDs) with SATA 3.0 interfaces that doubles sequential write performance on the lower-capacity drive and markedly increases write speeds on its mid-capacity SSD.

By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 02:50

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, OCZ Technology

Hitachi starts all-in-one data center service, covers construction to IT support

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Monday launched a new data center business that includes everything from planning to construction to IT support.

By Jay Alabaster | 07 May, 2012 20:31

Tags: internet, hitachi, hardware systems, cloud computing

Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information

The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted.

By Lucas Mearian | 04 May, 2012 05:14

Tags: storage, Regulation, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, healthcare IT, Gov't Legislation/Regulation, government

Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering

As IT contemplates the rapidly expanding universe of storage options, at least one detail has become clear: In the majority of infrastructures, most data just sits around, feeling lonely, while a small percentage is more or less constantly in use. Addressing this issue in an elegant and cost-saving way paves the road to lower capital expenditures for storage, as well as reduced power and cooling costs, with a side order of performance gains. What's not to love?

By Paul Venezia | 03 May, 2012 20:11

Tags: Storage Server, Storage Management, Storage Area Network, storage, iscsi, hardware systems, dell, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

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