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Oracle to embed Flash storage in Exadata machines

The second iteration of Oracle's Exadata database engine will feature flash storage embedded within the server machine, eliminating the need to source data from storage disks and cutting query processing time significantly, a company executive revealed.

Scientists build secure storage with magnetic crystals

Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as well as contribute to the discovery of materials that expand the capacity of electronic storage devices by 1,000 to 1 million times.

Cleversafe expands its dispersed storage network system

Cleversafe announced upgrades to its storage servers and management appliances as well as a bundled product that offers up to 432TB of capacity in a single, preconfigured cabinet.

Virtualisation saves credit company £500k a year

CMA (Credit Market Analysis), the credit information company, is making annual savings of more than £500,000 after virtualising its storage and server infrastructure with Compellent.

Overland Storage launches first iSCSI SAN

Overland Storage, which is trying to remake its identity from a tape library company into a full storage systems company, has released its first iSCSI SAN that is claims is easy to deploy and offers robust management capabilities.

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Citi: How we cut £900m from technology costs

Citi: How we cut £900m from technology costs

Citi has eliminated $1.42 billion (£904 million) from technology and communications costs over eighteen months, through dramatic changes to servers and storage, better system integration and processes, and the elimination of legacy software.

Micron acquires flash memory vendor Numonyx

Micron Technology has agreed to acquire flash memory maker Numonyx, adding NOR flash chips, a memory type commonly found in mobile phones and MP3 players, to its product lineup and expanding its manufacturing capacity

Seagate launches Savvio10.4K 600GB

Seagate released a 2.5-in SAS drive today that doubles the amount of capacity over previous drives and offers lower power consumption while increasing drive reliability.

Intel and Micron double storage with 25nm flash memory

Intel and Micron Technology have announced the world's first 25-nanometre NAND flash technology.

Hitachi CTO says SSD will replace hard disk drives

With server speeds increasing faster than storage performance, Hitachi says hard drives may someday be replaced by solid-state disks.

Cloud storage an option for half of all businesses

Businesses are increasingly looking to Cloud according to a CommVault survey

EMC doubles density of storage systems

EMC has announced a new higher-density configuration of its Clariion CX4 midrange storage array and Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) gateway device, claiming to offer twice the capacity of previous systems in half the floor space.

Compellent adds RAID 6 to Storage Center SAN

Compellent has launched Storage Center 5 incorporating several new features aimed at simplifying data replication and improving virtualisation.

Iomega shows how to clone whole PCs to portable drive

EMC's Iomega division has come up with a striking new virtualisation technology that can "clone" a whole PC and its contents into a fully portable form.

LaCie offers flash drives with online storage

LaCie has released two new USB drives. The CooKey and WhizKey thumb drives offer storage capacities ranging from 4GB to 32GB, and up to 4GB of online storage via LaCie's Wuala service.

Seagate follows Western Digital with USB 3.0 hard drive

Seagate has released its first USB SuperSpeed 3.0-enabled external hard disk drive, the BlackArmor PS110, claiming up to three times the performance of its previous USB 2.0 products

Western Digital launches USB 3.0 hard drive

Western Digital (WD) has launched its fastest My Book external hard drive, which uses the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface that's up to 10 times faster than previous-generation USB 2.0 drives.

Western Digital boosts hard drive storage

Western Digital is rolling out a new drive format that squeezes up to 11% more capacity from a hard disk by consolidating disk management information and using the resulting space for data storage.

Flash drive storage to be key in data centres, Gartner says

Flash is 25 to 30 times more expensive than hard disk drives, but the price is worth it, Gartner says.

Intel to fix firmware that bricked hard drives

After pulling a solid state drive firmware upgrade due to user complaints that it was crashing their systems, Intel said it would re-release the software by the end of this month.

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