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Micron has released a statement indicating their Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton has been killed in a small aircraft accident. Reports indicate he was in an experimental single engine Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise airport around 9am MST this morning.
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Testing enterprise hardware and software requires an evaluation platform beyond consumer desktops. StorageReview understands that companies want hardware they send out for review tested in the same environment they are positioning it for and to that end we have deployed a pair of Lenovo ThinkServer RD240’s for enterprise reviews. The [...]

Infortrend has announced the addition of new high-density storage solutions in its EonStor DS family. These new solutions aid customers meet extreme capacity requirements with 48 drive bays in a 4U form factor, in addition to offering outstanding cost efficiency. The new systems are equipped with hybrid Fibre Channel (FC)/iSCSI host [...]

Transcend Information has announced the launch of its new, next generation SSD720 SATA III 6GB/s SSD. The SSD720 delivers significantly improved performance over standard rotating hard drives and its focus on productivity-enhancement is the ideal solution for demanding system applications, such as specialized multimedia computing and serious gaming.
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Mainframe biz profit wobbles in Q4
Mainframe maker and services provider Unisys managed to almost hold profits steady in the final quarter of 2011 despite taking a dip in revenues.…

Revs up WAN optimisation
Riverbed says customers can dispense completely with servers in remote and branch offices by using Granite technology layered on its Steelhead-based WAN optimisation – and so deliver all IT services to remote offices as if they were local.…

Blames Japanese tsunami and Thai flooding
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi – which derives a fair portion of its sales and profits from the IT and telecom sectors – has taken it in the chin profit-wise in its third quarter of fiscal 2011 ended in December. For the quarter, sales were essentially flat at ¥2,2665bn ($29bn), but net [...]

Watchdogs would favour Great Wall of China’s disk fab chunk slurp
Could China become a major hard disk manufacturing base if Great Wall snaps up a slice of Western Digital’s 3.5-inch drive business?…

Fusion-io has announced that InFrame Designs, provider of custom-built media servers to accelerate playback of video at live media events, has integrated Fusion’s ioMemory technology in its appliances to reduce latency by up to 100 times compared to its previous architecture. With this drastically improved latency and an additional six-fold application [...]

The Crucial m4 SSDs have been on the market nine months, and have built a good track record around mainstream value and reliability in that time. Crucial has been great about continuing to enhance their line of m4 SSDs with firmware updates, a key advantage thanks to using their own NAND and [...]