Intel issued a press release today cutting their quarterly guidance by $1 billion ($14.7b to $13.7b) due to the impact of the hard drive shortage. While we’ve been expecting the hard drive supply problems to impact the purchase of computers at large, it appears Intel is finding the greatest impact at the lower end of
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced the Deskstar 5K4000 Internal Hard Drive Kit and the Touro Desk External Hard Drive. The Deskstar 5K4000 is a 3.5" desktop hard drive with 5400RPM CoolSpin technology, 32MB drive cache and SATA 6 GB/s interface. The Touro Desk family of external hard drives are available in capacities up to
SandForce has announce the SF-2481 SSD processor which is designed especially for duty within Cloud-based environments. SandForce is hoping to strike a balance of the required performance and reliability of enterprise SSDs with low-cost MLC NAND. The SF-2481 helps to increase the endurance of MLC NAND by incorporating almost twice the error correction strength. Other
Highly Reliable Systems has announced a new high-performance, high-capacity Direct Attached Storage system using hard drive based removable cartridges. The RAIDFrame makes an entire 3-drive RAID array, along with its controller, a removable backup cartridge – a unique feature when compared to conventional RAID storage systems. Highly Reliable Systems’ removable RAIDPac was recently certified with
LaCie has announced its latest enterprise storage device, the 12big Rack Storage Server. Powered by the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, the 12big Rack is a comprehensive network storage solution that includes everything needed for backup or file sharing, out of the box. LaCie’s new device includes the performance of Quad LANs and comes with
EMC Corporation has unveiled the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), the industry’s single, unified next-generation data analytics platform to support Big Data analytics. The new platform is extensible to other tools and supports the analytics process by facilitating the discovery and sharing of insights from Big Data, which results in much greater business value.
Western Digital has announced that it will be establishing a Research and Development center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, creating new 50 technicians position. The recruitment process for the new Taiwanese R&D center will take between 12 and 18 months and will focus on the development of solid state drives (SSD). This will be its first R&D
At the Barclay’s Capital Global Technology Conference today OCZ Technology has announced plans to showcase both the enterprise Z-Drive R5 and consumer-based TLC SSDs at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January. The Z-Drive R5 follows hot on the heels of the Z-Drive R4 and promises to more than double IOPS performance, going from 1.5
Big data acceleration company, GridIron Systems, have announced that its new TurboCharger non-disruptive appliance is being readily implemented by the financial services industry to improve service-levels and solve Oracle and SQL-server performance challenges. Companies requiring access to data 24 hours a day, seven days a week all year around have saved anywhere between one and
Business recovery service provider IT-Lifeline has announced a new service, BLACKCLOUD Edge, which uses CommVault Simpana 9 software to synch up with Amazon Web Services, making for an affordable disaster recovery solution. According to CommVault, the new service could offer up to a 50% price reduction compared to current DR services.
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