IBM pumps cash into clouds

IBM is planning to invest some US$360 million in efforts to expand its cloud computing program..

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NetApp Dedupes the Competition

NetApp’s primary storage deduplication technology can now be used on competitors’ arrays.

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VMware to make bare metal hypervisor free

VMware will next week make its ESX 3i hypervisor available for free, a move the company is presenting as a logical step in growing the virtualisation market, but which some experts also see as necessary to counter the threat from rivals such as Microsoft.

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6-Gig SAS Coming to an Array Near You

Drive and component manufacturers are getting psyched about 6Gb/s SAS, but storage users will have to wait a while before they can get their hands on the next-generation SAS products.

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HP, Intel and Yahoo shoot for clouds

Three of the biggest names in the tech world are joining forces for a new cloud computing initiative.

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Opinion: Virtually free

When Microsoft arrives late to the party it always likes to bring gifts.

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Stormy Weather for Amazon's Cloud Storage

Brief downtime hits the company’s S3 service again.

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Top SSD Performance Comes at a Price

Texas Memory Systems debuts a RAM-based product that’s big and powerful, but definitely not cheap.

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Pioneer promises 400GB optical discs

Pioneer has developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc which it claims can store 400GB of data..

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EMC's Strong Quarter Overshadowed by VMware

The storage giant’s results beat Wall Street estimates, but analysts on the company’s conference call were more concerned about its once high-flying virtualization unit.

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