SGI slings out departmental filer box

Modular InfiniteStorage
SGI has produced a modular version of its InfiniteStorage product for the departmental NAS market that comes as a storage server or a JBOD.…

Nekkid Tech: Our chefs boil biz data into clouds

Turning up the heat on dependable storage
Podcast Greg Knieriemen saw off the hordes at the New England Area VMware User Group and debated burning topics from virtualisation to sex equality in tech, thus serving up another piping hot podcast pie for El…

New Nimbus flash motor nibbles just 5 watts per terabyte

500TB of silicon will cost lot more than an E-Class Merc
Flash array pioneer Nimbus has doubled the capacity of its non-volatile memory slabs with a fault-tolerant data vault that scales to half a petabyte.…

Show us the big data money: Isilon gets Hadooped

One-stop Hadoop/Isilon/Greenplum shop
EMC is betting big on big data analytics and has integrated the Hadoop filesystem into its Isilon scale-out filer offering and enabled its Greenplum analytics product to use Hadoop data.…

Megaupload user data may be deleted, say US prosecutors

Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday.

Nimble not struck by Lightning: We’re fine as we are, thanks

Built-in lightning conductor
Tiered networked storage array startup Nimble Storage won’t be struck by the coming EMC Lightning server flash product because its customers don’t need it.…

New apps could bring a revolution in consumer choice

The omniscient Big Brother state, where multinational companies know more about your life than you do, could be about to crumble.

Twitter faces user backlash over move to censor messages

Twitter was facing a backlash from its users last night after the website said it had the technology to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis.

Quantum shares plunge after results

Turning the corner
Revenues for the third quarter of fy2012 were $173m, 2 per cent down on the $176m of a year ago. Net income was $3.94m, down from the $5.8m recorded a year ago. These earnings exceeded the Street’s expectations so why did investors d…

Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitions

Switch hitting
Juniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time that the company is putting the finishing touches o…

 
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