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Encore une mise à jour pour le SSD Ocz Petrol


Nous vous informions il y a quelques jours de la sortie du firmware 1.13 pour le SSD Petrol afin d’optimiser les performances des écritures aléatoires et séquentielles pour les modèles 64 Go et 128 Go. Le SSD Octane, lui aussi équipé du contrôleur Indilinx Everest, bénéficiait quelques jours plus tô…

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.…

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.…

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 .…

IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 Improvements Announced


IBM has announced several key improvements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, as well as a new iPhone app that allows people monitor their XIV storage environment wherever they go.
With SSD caching, the most [...]

Texas Memory Systems Teams With NEVEX Virtual Technologies to Supercharge Virtual Applications SSD Storage Devices


Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced their partnership with NEVEX Virtual Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of application optimized caching solutions, to develop joint solutions that will supercharge the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications implemented on TMS’ Flash-based SSD storage devices.
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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.…

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 .…

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.…

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.…