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Marvell introduces Plug Computer 3.0
With more than 10,000 developer kits in circulation as of December last year, Marvell has announced an upgraded SheevaPlug in the form of what it calls Plug Computer 3.0. The supercharged device now... Read more...
Seagate releases slimmest laptop hard disk ever
Seagate earlier this week announced a new thin, low-end hard disk drive which the company hopes will spur the creation of a new class of thin laptops. At 7mm thick, the 2.5-inch Momentus Thin drive... Read more...
Freecom unveils USB 3.0 hard drive
The first USB 3.0 based device has just been announced by Dutch storage company Freecom. Costing approximately $160, the XS 3.0 is an external 3.5-inch hard drive packing 1TB of storage. It will work... Read more...
IBM Server bug could result in data loss
A recent firmware update on more than twenty models of its business servers could result in the failure of their hard disk drives. The models affected include the BladeCenter, xSeries and System x... Read more...
Seagate unveils 1.5 Terabyte desktop drive
Seagate
has unveiled a 1.5 Terabyte 3.5-inch hard disk for the desktop earlier this
week. Meant for the mainstream market,
the Barracuda 7200.11 represents the eleventh generation of Seagate's... Read more...
Google looking to shift some servers over to SSD
Plans are afoot over at Google to shift some of its servers over to SSD-based storage. The motivation has to do with lower electrical consumption compared with that of traditional Winchester (or
... Read more...Stamping out domain tasting
The sharp increase in speculation over domain names is causing a backlash. As every CIO knows, a company's domain name is a treasure, but havoc can be caused by typo-squatters--those who create and... Read more...
Phoenix Technologies enables remote drive security
Phoenix Technologies has announced that it will bring its "FailSafe" tech to Fujitsu's new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive. FailSafe allows IT admins to remotely track,
... Read more...Hard Disk Crusher is serious about security
How serious are you about making sure that the secure data stored on your business' hard drives stays out of the wrong hands? Given the recent rash of corporate laptop thefts that we've seen in
... Read more...Lawyers miss the boat on eDiscovery
With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers... Read more...
