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Pliant releases its first MLC-based SSDs
Pliant released its first MLC-based solid state drive products today for data centers, saying the drives are half the price of SLC-based SSDs while still offering vastly higher performance than hard disk drives.
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Symantec releases de-duplication appliance, cloud storage for backup
Symantec announced several upgrades to its backup and archive software products that allow users to collect and store data from laptops and desktops for discovery purposes. The company also announced its first de-duplication appliance.
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Hurd's new job: Sell Oracle's Exadata vision
The ascendancy of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd to a co-president slot at Oracle could give the vendor's strategy of selling integrated systems a boost, according to some industry observers.
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Did HP overpay for 3Par?
HP paid roughly 11 times what 3Par made in revenue in 2009, so perhaps Dell should be wiping sweat from its forehead after losing the bidding battle for the storage vendor. Still, HP could make hay with 3Par in a big way.
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HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.
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Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says
The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, research company IDC said on Friday.
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HP, 3Par sign definitive merger pact
Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for $2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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Northrop Grumman takes blame for Va. IT services outage
Northrop Grumman today said it was sorry for a days-long data center disruption that left 26 Virginia state agencies without online services.
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Update: Dell loses 3Par bidding war to HP
Dell on Thursday said it would not increase its most recent proposal to acquire virtualized storage vendor 3PAR, paving the path for rival Hewlett-Packard to acquire the company.
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Dell loses 3PAR bidding war to HP
Dell on Thursday said it would not increase its most recent proposal to acquire virtualized storage vendor 3PAR, paving the path for rival Hewlett-Packard to acquire the company.
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How to modernize your backup infrastructure
The technologies to vastly improve backup and recovery performance and reliability have arrived. Here's how to put them to good use
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HP raises 3PAR bid to $33 per share
Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer for virtualized storage vendor 3PAR to $33 per share, or roughly $2.4 billion, from its previous bid of $30 per share, 3PAR said Thursday. The move tops Dell's latest offer of $32 per share, according to 3PAR.
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3Par faces patent infringement lawsuit
3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement.
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3Par faces lawsuit as bidding war continues
3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement.
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HP, Hynix to jointly bring next-gen memory to market
Hewlett-Packard announced an agreement with chip fabricator Hynix to bring a new form of non-volatile memory out of research and into the commercial marketplace. The technology, which will be called ReRAM, is faster and denser than today's flash memory.
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Gartner raises semiconductor revenue forecast for 2010
Gartner on Wednesday raised its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast for this year as sales of devices like smartphones and tablets gain steam.
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Alcatel-Lucent buys mobile apps dev-tool vendor OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, the creator of ELIPS Studio, a tool that allows developers to write an application once and then translate it into native code that can run on iPhones and Android-based smartphones.
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Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading
The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find
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Nanocrystal conductors using 'dirt-cheap material' promise massive 3-D storage
Scientists at Rice University have been able to create a non-volitile memory using a chain of nano-sized silicon crystals that can be stacked atop one another to create 3-D memory that offers far great scale than today's flash memory.
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