Microsoft has launched the public beta of the highly-anticipated Office 365. There is a lot to like about the cloud-based suite, but one of the most compelling features of the service might just be the price.
Intel and Micron Pack More Flash Memory in Less Space
IM Flash Technologies–the joint venture between Intel and Micron–has reached a new milestone for NAND flash memory with a smaller 20nm process. The smaller 20nm technology opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for smartphones, tablets, and other portable gadgets.
Intel and Micron have crafted an 8GB sample device using the 20nm process which it expects to mass produce in the second half of this year. The partners are also expected to produce a 16GB device, and can theoretically pack 128GB of flash storage onto a solid-state device the size of a postage stamp.
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Windows 8 Portable Workspace Lets You Take It With You
Windows 8 rumors have been floating around for some time, but recently an early build of Windows 8 was leaked, providing a sneak peek at what the next flagship OS from Microsoft might have to offer. One of the cool features that have been uncovered so far is the ability to take your Windows 8 desktop with you on a USB thumb drive.
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OCZ Continues To Push The SSD Envelope
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. is shipping the Vertex 3 SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) III SSD (solid-state or flash disk) Series in 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB capacities. Built around the SandForce SF-2200 SSD processor with the 6Gbps SATA III interface to deliver double the performance of the previous generation, the Vertex 3 provides up to 550MB/s of bandwidth and up to 60,000 IOPS (4k random write). An enterprise version, the Vertex 3 Pro, is scheduled to ship later this quarter.
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Comcast Screws Up Blazing Extreme 105 Service
Comcast recently introduced Extreme 105–its new 105mbps high-speed broadband service. It sounds awesome at face value, but Comcast managed to screw it up in not one, but two ways that make it a horrible deal.
Would you like to have blazing fast 105mbps broadband? Sure, why not? It would be awesome to have high-speed broadband that is 10 times faster than what I have now. But, the combination of an astronomical cost, and a data cap quickly spoil the dream.
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EMC Isilon Delivers Breakthrough Performance For Big Data
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced new generations of its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS hardware and software platforms, delivering industry-leading performance, throughput and replication for big data. Isilon’s new hardware platform enables customers to choose from a range of drive configurations, including solid state drives (SSD) with either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or serial ATA (SATA) drives, and combine them with a large, globally coherent cache and next-generation quad core processors to deliver optimum price-performance for accelerating big data access. Leveraging these new hardware innovations, Isilon’s OneFS 6.5 operating system delivers enhanced enterprise functionality to improve performance for mission-critical data center operations, while Isilon’s SyncIQ 3.0 significantly improves recovery point objectives, providing unmatched big data protection.
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Avere Systems Upgrades NAS Appliance Line To Deliver More ‘Horsepower’
Network-attached storage (NAS) vendor Avere Systems has added to its FXT line of NAS appliances with two new models that feature faster Intel Xeon quad-core processors, more DRAM capacity and both one Gigabit Enternet (GbE) and ten GbE ports. An industry analyst says that the new models represent a “horsepower bump” for Avere and can be paired with a customer’s existing NAS appliances to deliver an extra storage tier and provide scale-out capability to handle growing data storage needs.
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HP Plans To Help Companies Lessen Application Backlog
As part of integrating its 2008 purchase of the Electronic Data Systems services company, now known as HP Enterprise Services, Hewlett-Packard announced a combination of seven products and services intended to help user organizations transform applications. In particular, the portfolio is intended to help make user organizations more flexible and rid themselves of the application backlog that many of them have, much of which includes products with functionality that duplicates that of other products.
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Amplidata Builds “Unbreakable” Storage
While I stand by my position that we put too much of the responsibility for keeping our data safe for the long term on storage systems, as I wrote in Long Term Retention:It’s More Than Media, I also believe that you bet on different horses for different courses. Startup Amplidata’s new AmpliStor system has most of the features on my wish list for storing large data objects like medical images or rich media.
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Intel Itanium ‘Poulson’ Chip Coming Next Year
Intel, which has had its commitment to the Itanium platform challenged by Oracle, says it will ship the next version of the server processor on schedule next year. Kirk Skaugen, VP and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, underscored the company’s support for the 64-bit RISC architecture during his Wednesday keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. While the next version of Itanium, codenamed Poulson, will launch on time, Intel still refuses to provide a narrower timetable.
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