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IBM stuffs XIV array with flash tech
Big Blue puts pedal to the metal
IBM has pressed the gas pedal to the floor with its third generation XIV array and given it up to 6TB of solid state drive cache storage.?
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NHS hands out 3G slabs and phones to roving nurses
Should help community care workers cut down on desk-time
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is piloting mobile devices for its community care nurses and therapists to enable them to access files, capture data and update back office systems remotely.?
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Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast
250,000 signatures for fair treatment of iWorkers
Breakfast at Apple retail outlets in Washington, DC, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore will come with a side order of protest on Thursday morning, as ?concerned Apple customers? will be dropping off 250,000-signature petitions calling out Apple on supplier working practices.?
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Cisco stabilizes switching and routing in Q2
Raises dividend, remains cautious
Networking - and some would say data center bellwether - Cisco Systems turned in a better-than-expected fiscal Q2 ended in January, with revenues up 10.8 per cent to $11.53bn and net income up a very good 43.5 per cent to $2.18bn.?
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Solarflare turns network adapters into servers
When a CPU just isn't fast enough
Solarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into servers, more or less.?
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Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
Rumour mill spits out Tosh as buyer
We are hearing that Toshiba is buying Western Digital's "excess" 3.5-inch disk drive business, clearing the way to the completion of the WD's acquisition of Hitachi GST .?
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Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN
Plus, adopt a needy cloud
Podcast Last week, Greg Knieriemen turned the heat up on Marc Farley, StorageIO's Greg Schulz and the legendary StorageZilla.?
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Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system
Yes, sir, but have you booked an appointment?
Apple has been forced to restrict iPhone sales in its Hong Kong store to discourage the recent epidemic of scalpers.?
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Cray puts super stake in the big data ground
Crunch this
Big data may or may not pan out for the users, but it is a bit of a boom for IT vendors, who are scrambling to prove their data analytics chops and go for the easiest money in the market these days. And to that end, supercomputer maker Cray is setting up a dedicated division to chase big data biz.?
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Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record
Solid disks thrust into willing 80-core NEC box
Exit Exadata, Fusion-io and Violin Memory - so to speak: the Oracle database random IO speed record has been smashed by an 80-core NEC server fitted with eight Virident flash drives.?
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