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Seagate Unveils Pulsar, Savvio, Constellation SSD and HDD Drives
Hard disk drive and storage solution specialist Seagate Technology launched two new members of the Pulsar solid-state drive family, two next-generation Savvio 15K and 10K hard disk drives, and the latest Constellation ES.2 3TB HDD. The Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2 automatically detect and correct a multitude of data errors that can occur during normal drive…
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Xeon, Atom Chips for Micro Servers on Intel’s Roadmap
Intel officials are looking to use a combination of low-power “Sandy Bridge” Xeon chips and Atom processors to build out their portfolio of products for ultradense micro servers. Executives with the giant chip maker first talked about micro servers in 2009, describing high-performance, energy-efficient systems that share resources and target such environments as large data…
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Green IT, Cloud Computing to Impact Data Centers: Report
According to IT research firm Gartner, Inc., four forces currently operating in the market could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the decade is out. These include smarter designs, energy efficiency pressures (or green IT), the realities of high-density environments, and the potential of cloud computing. The company recommended that…
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SaaS Email Provider HyperOffice Adds Archiving
SaaS-based collaboration and messaging technology provider HyperOffice has announced the addition of a new hosted email archiving service to its existing portfolio of cloud-based offerings. The new service offered by HyperOffice recognizes that email is often the wrapper around critical corporate information such as contracts, invoices, business documents and other important information. HyperOffice executives said…
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NetApp Acquires LSI’s Large-Scale Storage Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector. NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding “big data” storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI…
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SMBs Turning to Backup in the Cloud: Forrester
Small to midsize businesses are beginning to move toward cloud-based backup (as opposed to traditional technologies) to protect their company data, according to a Forrester Research survey whose goal was to discover the drivers for the move to cloud-based recovery tech versus traditional on-premises solutions. The report, commissioned by cloud-basked backup specialist Asigra, found that…