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AMD announces first ARM server chip, slated to arrive in 2014

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced its new "Seattle" processor, which is a new server-based chip based on the ARM architecture.

IDC: Increased storage efficiency resulting in slower growth

Enterprises are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage capacity in 2017, according to IDC, which predicted a growth of more than 30 percent every year from 2013 to 2017.

Why ultra high-definition displays are 'just better'

Super high-definition displays are changing everything, says Mike Elgan of  Computerworld . He cited the arrival of such screens in all new iPhones and high-end Android smartphones, as well as laptops such as the Google Chromebook Pixel and Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Ways to rein in data center sprawl

A sprawling data center can bog down network performance, cause unnecessary expenses, foster information silos and increase security risks.

Amazon RDS enters into general availability

The Amazon cloud database, or Relational Database Service, is now generally available, according to a new blog entry on the Amazon Web Services blog.

Seagate ships 5mm HDD for ultra thin laptops, tablets

Seagate today announced that it has started shipping a new family of hard disk drives designed specifically to cater to ultrathin laptops, as well as tablets.

AMD Kyoto set to challenge Atom S in microservers

Chipmaker AMD has unveiled a new family of microprocessors to take on the Intel Atom in the microserver market. Formerly codenamed "Kyoto," AMD's new Opteron X-Series is a quad-core processor based on the "Jaguar" core.

FBI cracks encrypted hard disk in mere weeks

Encryption is looking a little less secure now that the FBI has successfully cracked the encryption of a hard disk drive. According to the court order (.pdf), the FBI says it has devoted "substantial" resources into decrypting the storage system "since April 19."

Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1B, revamps Flickr with 1TB of free storage

Yahoo has gone on the social network warpath, acquiring blogging site Tumblr in a $1.1 billion deal that lets it tap into a large pool of young online users.

Spotlight: Seagate Slim portable drive

The Seagate Slim portable drive is an external hard disk drive measuring 9.5mm thick and is slightly larger than an iPhone 5.