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Apple’s Interest in Anobit Boosts Flash Storage Talk
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli flash solutions maker Anobit for a sum ranging between $400 and 500 million. Anobit offers a chip that boosts flash drive performance via signal processing. Apple doesn’t usually acquire hardware companies, but buying Anobit is essential to further round out its ecosystem. Among Anobit’s clients is Hyni, ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Legal Chief Latest to Jump Ship
HP’s general counsel Michael Holston has left the company to pursue other opportunities, according to company officials. Fenwick & West LLP partner David Healy is serving as interim counsel until a replacement will be found. Holston has been serving as the electronics maker’s head of legal affairs since 2007, and the timing of his resignation ...
Big Data Disruptors and Hurdles in WAN Traffic
Infineta and the Internet Research Group (IRG) released a study about the disruptors and challenges that exist in the inter-data center WAN environment handling big data workflows. The paper starts out by highlighting the main advantages of big data environments. Enterprises can lower storage costs while increasing scalability as they analyze their unstructured data. Citing ...
Storage Wars: HP Gets a Boost in Disk Storage
Hewlett-Packard has seen some of the biggest growth in the external storage systems market, according to data provided by company officials and research firms IDC and Gartner. Wikibon’s top analyst Dave Vellante looked into the numbers and drew his own conclusions in the first post of the Storage Wars series. Vellante noted that HP is ...
HP Making Gains in the Flat Disk Market
IDC’s latest quarterly report on the global external disk storage systems pie chart reveals that the market leader is firmly holding on to its spot, while Hewlett-Packard has created itself an opportunity that may move it up the ladder in the near future. EMC is number one with the highest market factory systems revenue for an ...
Microsoft Fully Committed to Hadoop
Microsoft released their latest version of Azure, which features a lot of improvements including Hadoop integration, The new Azure now offers developers 150GB of free storage instead of the previous version’s 50GB, and access to free libraries for .NET, Java, and Node.js hosted on GitHub. The platform also features a full-featured Node.js SDK . A lot ...
More webOS Plans Emerge as HP Details its Mobile Goals
Hewlett-Packard’s move to open-source webOS may have been the best route to avoid the Palm acquisition from being written down in the history pages as a complete blunder. Now the company can refocus on monetizing its ecosystem, which will – hopefully – help flesh out the platform as it grows. SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier discussed ...
Broadcom’s Vision of 2012: More Products, Faster Speed
Networking solutions maker Broadcom will release products based on the IEEE 802.11ac wireless technology in late 2012, a few months after the standard’s ratification sometime in mid last year. The most significant improvement 802.11ac introduces over its predecessors is a major performance increase, with speeds upwards of 1GB/s. PCMag’s Mark Hachman made a comparison of ...
QLogic Offers Extended Warranty for 10GB Adapters
Networking gear vendor QLogic extended the five-year warranty available with its Fibre Channel adapter to its 10Gb Ethernet adapters – specifically the QLogic-branded 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series converged networking adapters (CANs). The company said this last part of the extended warranty is “unmatched in the industry. “QLogic is able to offer a more ...
Intel Slashes Outlook Due to Thailand Disaster
The flooding in Thailand has led to a decline in output for the local hard-drive manufacturing industry, which has become a sore spot for hardware manufacturers considering the plants in the nation ship the majority of the products on the market. Chipmakers have taken a direct hit, and Intel is clearly no exception. Today the ...