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EMC enhances disaster recovery system 2009-09-23
EMC has added cascaded replication to its Data Domain Replicator software.The combination of high ....
Dell buys Perot Systems 2009-09-23
Dell has acquired IT services outfit Perot Systems for a reported $3.9 billion.The move marks the ....
EMC opens new technology hub in India 2009-09-23
EMC is to triple its investment in its Indian subsidiary to $1.5 billion over the next five ....
Dell to offer out of the box systems 2009-08-02
Dell is to offer pre-configured "out of the box" systems that can be up and running in a matter of ....
IBM tackles virtual sprawl 2009-07-26
With the proliferation of virtual environments running on different machines, IBM has introduced a ....
HP woos Solaris customers 2009-07-26
Hewlett-Packard has announced a package of incentives designed to encourage Sun users to migrate to ....
IBM extends OEM agreements with switch manufacturers 2009-07-26
IBM is to expand its data centre networking technology options in a series of extended deals with ....
EMC launches integrated virtual management package 2009-07-19
EMC has amalgamated its IT management software portfolio under a single brand which it calls the ....
New entry level Escala servers from Bull 2009-06-01
Bull has launched three new entry level Escala servers. Based on the POWER6 processor technology ....
Dell adds virtualized I/O to PowerEdge line 2009-02-05
Dell has formed a partnership with virtualization specialists Xsigo Systems to offer an I/O ....
Sun’s Rock chips "on track" 2009-01-30
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has announced that the long delayed Rock processors will be released this ....
Dell and Cisco data centre collaboration 2009-01-29
Dell and Cisco are to expand their existing partnership in a bid to simplify data centre ....
HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem forms cross industry alliance 2009-01-29
HP’s network equipment division has announced a new initiative called the HP ProCurve Open ....
Hitachi’s USP’s now compatible with IBM System z10 servers 2008-12-28
Hitachi has announced its Universal Storage Platform (USP) V and VM are now certified for use with ....
Sun Fire x64 series gets quad-core upgrade 2008-12-11
Sun has updated its line of Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade systems. The new lines will feature ....
Dell to sell Celerra NX4 unified storage system 2008-12-09
Dell has announced it will begin selling EMC’s Celerra NX4 unified storage system.In ....
IBM launches entry level SAN Volume Controller 2008-10-16
IBM has announced the introduction of an entry level version of its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) ....
Bull and SAP launch joint green IT research project 2008-10-16
Bull has teamed up with SAP Research, the research division of business software giant SAP AG, in a ....
Sun launches new UltraSparc T2 Plus servers 2008-10-13
Sun is to introduce a new line of its popular Unix servers today.The Sparc Enterprise T5440 will ....
IBM expands SOA portfolio 2008-10-10
IBM has announced an expansion of its service-oriented architecture portfolio with the release of ....
Bull acquisition raises stake in German HPC market 2008-10-09
In an undisclosed deal, Bull has acquired the German IT infrastructure specialists, science + ....
Bull lands 200-teraflops supercomputer deal 2008-10-09
Bull has been contracted by the German HPC research centre Forschungszentrum Jülich to provide a ....
IBM launches midrange Power System server 2008-10-08
IBM has introduced a new Power Systems series server for the SMB Unix market.The new product was ....
IBM expands Express Advantage portfolio 2008-10-08
IBM has expanded its Express Advantage range with the addition of several BladeCenter servers and ....
IBM adds SAN to BladeCenter S 2008-10-06
IBM has added storage area network (SAN) capability to its BladeCenter S product. Aimed at ....
Dell and EMC joint Oracle Data Warehouse initiative 2008-09-24
Dell and EMC are to combine forces to bring extended support for the Oracle Optimized Warehouse ....
EMC to develop greater integration between storage and VMware 2008-09-16
EMC has announced its participation in VMware’s vStorage program.vStorage is a set of ....
Sun releases xVM VirtualBox update 2008-09-05
Sun has released a new version of its free and open source xVM VirtualBox desktop virtualization ....
IBM to launch security conscious blade server 2008-09-04
IBM has announced a new security enhanced blade server combining Deep Packet Inspection technology ....
HP releases multiple virtualization products 2008-09-04
HP has this week floated a raft of new virtualization oriented products.The HP ProLiant BL495c ....
EMC launches new low end NAS array 2008-09-04
EMC has launched a new version of its low end Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) server ....
HP posts healthy Q3 results 2008-08-23
HP has defied predictions of financial gloom, announcing a 20 percent rise in operating profit to ....
Rave Computers launches Rave/Sun Ultra 24 Hybrid server 2008-08-23
Responding to the demand among Sun customers for a rackmount format workstation, Rave Computer ....
IBM invests $300 million in C2CD backup and disaster recovery services 2008-08-23
IBM is to invest $300 million in 13 new Business Resilience data centres around the world to ....
Sun launches two new Xeon based Sun Fire servers 2008-08-22
Sun has launched two new servers in its Xeon based Sun Fire series.Aimed at the High Performance ....
New OEM deals for Sun xVM VirtualBox 2008-08-22
Sun has entered into new multi-year OEM agreements for VirtualBox with three new ....
EMC’s VMware update bug causes virtual chaos 2008-08-13
VMware’s latest release for ESXi 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 contained a "time-bomb" bug which ....
EMC launches the CLARiiON CX4 Series 2008-08-06
EMC has unveiled its new range of midrange storage systems, the EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series.The CX4 ....
NetApp offers free deduplication for third party storage 2008-08-01
NetApp has announced it has that added support for its free data deduplication utility to its ....
16 GB memory upgrade for HP Integrity servers 2008-07-31
Dataram have announced the release of a 16 GB memory upgrade, the DRH8640/16GB, for Hewlett ....
Emulax to provide Virtual HBA tools for Solaris environments 2008-07-24
Emulax has launched a revamped version of its LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters ....
Dell rack workstation challenges blades 2008-07-23
Dell has launched its alternative to the blade workstation with the Dell Precision R5400 rack ....
Sun launches open source Web Stack for Solaris 2008-07-23
Sun has announced the availability of Sun Web Stack, the company’s version of the popular ....
EMC offers hard drives with integrated online backup 2008-07-17
EMC has announced that Iomega hard drives will feature its Mozy and Retrospect backup and disaster ....
Transitive offers Solaris applications for Windows Server 2008 2008-07-17
Cross platform virtualization solutions provider Transitive have announced its QuickTransit ....
HP launches prefab data centre 2008-07-16
HP has announced plans for a containerized portable data centre which will allow data facilities to ....
Emulex 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs now shipping within IBM System x servers 2008-07-16
Emulex Corporation has announced that its LightPulse 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) ....
HP and Sony developing next generation DAT tech 2008-07-15
HP and Sony are to develop the seventh generation of DAT tape technology, DAT 320.

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IBM joins the 1TB tape drive club 2008-07-15
IBM is to produce a one terabyte (TB) storage tape drive. The announcement comes the day after ....
European business embraces virtualization 2008-07-11
A June 2008 survey of European business by IDC has revealed an explosion in uptake of ....
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IBM adds replication to ProtecTIER products 2009-08-02
IBM is to add asynchronous data replication to its ProtecTIER deduplication devices.ProtecTIER, ....
Cisco’s mainframe SAN tech gets upgrade 2009-08-02
Cisco in partnership with IBM has announced enhancements to its MDS 9000 SAN products for ....
IBM pSeries tops reliability survey 2009-08-02
A survey by industry analysts ITIC of x86 and Unix machine reliability has given top place to ....
Sun shareholders vote for Oracle merger 2009-07-19
A special meeting of Sun Microsystems shareholders at Sun’s Santa Clara headquarters on ....
HP expands NAS portfolio with Ibrix acquisition 2009-07-19
Hewlett-Packard has announced an agreement to acquire Billerica, Massachusetts based clustered file ....
HP introduces 6Gb/s SAS architecture 2009-07-19
HP has launched what it claims is the first 6Gb/s serial attached SCSI (SAS) infrastructure.This ....
Bull launches HPC blade server 2009-07-17
Bull has launched a new family of HPC servers dubbed bullx. The novel blade based architecture is ....
IBM Power Systems get Power6+ processors 2009-04-29
IBM is to revamp its entry and midrange rack and blade Power Systems servers with the inclusion of ....
EMC launches new Celerra storage arrays with deduplication 2009-02-24
EMC has announced the introduction of three new storage arrays for the Celerra NAS range, with ....
10Gb CNAs for IBM system x and BladeCenter servers 2009-02-24
Ethernet specialists ServerEngines Corporation have launched two 10 Gigabit Ethernet Converged ....
IBM to build 20 petaflops supercomputer 2009-02-05
IBM has been commissioned by the US government to build a massive supercomputer that will be twenty ....
Dell launches energy efficiency initiative 2009-02-05
Dell is discussing plans to improve the energy efficiency of its servers and to shorten the ....
Sun launches new 6000 series arrays 2009-02-04
Sun has upgraded its 6000 series modular disk arrays with the introduction of two new products that ....
IBM cuts discounts for Power Systems i-DS8000 sales 2009-01-19
IBM has reduced the discounts on its high-end DS8000 disk arrays for customers attaching those ....
Sun and Micron unveil extend life flash 2008-12-28
Sun Microsystems and Micron Technology have jointly developed a new single-level cell (SLC) ....
Dell offers 0% financing and new lease options 2008-12-28
Responding to the credit crunch, Dell has announced new leasing and financing arrangements for ....
EMC tops storage software sales for Q3 2008-12-12
The worldwide storage software market experienced its 20th consecutive quarter of year-over-year ....
HP launches 2.5-Inch 300GB SAS Drives 2008-12-09
HP in partnership with Seagate Technologies has launched a new 300GB capacity serial attached SCSI ....
HP ProLiant blades to be fitted with solid-state drives 2008-10-16
HP has announced its recently released HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server will be ....
Dell launches D2D backup and recovery package 2008-10-09
Dell has unveiled its latest storage product - a new disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and recovery ....
HP ups midrange storage with LeftHand acquisition 2008-10-08
Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to buy storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area ....
Sun mobile datacenters now with bigger servers 2008-09-18
Sun has rejigged its containerised D20 mobile datacenter to accommodate larger servers such as the ....
Sun launches next generation X64 server systems 2008-09-17
Sun Microsystems is to extend its range of Xeon-based servers with the introduction of the Sun Fire ....
IBM’s SSD project Quicksilver claims 250% performance improvement 2008-09-05
IBM claims to have developed a solid-state storage system that is 250 percent faster than its ....
IBM and HP top worldwide server markets 2008-08-22
The latest report on server sales from industry analysts, Gartner, shows an increase of 12.2 ....
Sun Fire X4600 M2 server sets new record 2008-08-11
Sun has claimed a new world record for the SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark).The Sun Fire ....
Bull launches single socket NovaScale blade server 2008-08-06
Bull has launched the NovaScale B240 blade server, the first ever single-socket blade server on the ....
QLogic extends HP StorageWorks range 2008-07-31
QLogic has extended the range of its products that are compatible with the HP StorageWorks 8Gb ....
Bull to build Europe’s first petaflops scale supercomputer 2008-07-31
Bull and the Military Applications Department of the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) have ....
Rackable's ICE Cube now available with IBM blades 2008-07-31
IBM and Rackable Systems have entered into an agreement to offer IBM’s high-performance ....
IBM launches continuous data protection suit 2008-07-31
IBM has launched a new suite of continuous data protection (CDP) products following its acquisition ....
Bus-Tech products get IBM System Storage Proven qualification 2008-07-24
Virtual Tape solutions provider Bus-Tech has announced its Mainframe Data Library (MDL), Mainframe ....
QLogic FCoE proves to be compatible with HP Fibre Channel Storage 2008-07-24
QLogic have released the results of a test drive of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) ....
Solaris 10 gets top security certification for x86 and SPARC systems 2008-07-23
Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system has achieved Common Criteria Certification for the Labeled ....
QLogic launch 8Gb adapter for IBM System x 2008-07-21
High performance storage networking specialists QLogic Corp has announced it is now shipping QLogic ....
Sun and Samsung develop extended life flash chip 2008-07-17
Sun and Samsung have jointly developed a single level cell flash memory for servers that has a 500 ....
IBM to withdraw sale of three pSeries machines 2008-07-15
After August 29, 2008 these products will only be available from resellers.

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Sparc Enterprise Servers get quad-core processor 2008-07-14
Sun and Fujitsu have announced the latest enhancement to their jointly developed Sparc Enterprise ....
Sun announces world’s first terabyte tape drive 2008-07-14
Sun Microsystems has announced the introduction of the industry’s first one terabyte tape ....
Dell is world leader in iSCSI storage area networks 2008-07-11
Dell has taken the number one spot for iSCSI storage area networks (SANs), with more than double ....
Sun OpenSolaris gets ready for Nehalem 2008-07-09
Following a software optimization compact between Sun Microsystems and Intel eighteen months ago, ....
Sun launches new Open Storage product line 2008-07-09
Sun has unveiled its latest addition to its open storage Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" family. ....
New report puts IBM back on top of server market 2008-07-08
Computer industry market analysts, Gartner, has revised its worldwide server revenue figures for ....
IBM survey highlights risk of poor meta-data management 2008-07-07
Firms are facing revenue losses and fines as a result of not keeping track of their information ....
Dell FlexAddress Simplifies Blade Deployment And Management 2008-07-01
Dell has launched a new device for virtualizing the input/output of its PowerEdge M-Series blade ....
Dell takes open systems storage sales top spot 2008-06-30
Dell has taken the lead in worldwide sales of open systems storage sales with a 20.4 percent share ....
Sun releases unlimited DB and application server bundle 2008-06-27
Sun Microsystems has announced a flat rate database and application server package.

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Microsoft launches hypervisor for Windows Server 2008 2008-06-26
After several months delay, Microsoft has finally released its new virtualization application for ....
Dell PowerEdge 2900 III Server gets TPC-C price/performance top slot 2008-06-25
Dell’s PowerEdgeTM 2900 III server has achieved a new number one ranking for ....
Disk costs spinning out of control 2008-06-25
In 2007, businesses spent approximately $1.3 billion on powering and cooling according to a report ....
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