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Scientists find clues to why everything exists

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say they are getting some clues about where all the anti-matter went read more »

Cisco's new director-class storage switch boosts throughput 6X

Cisco's new director-class switch for storage, unveiled today, increases throughput six-fold and offers N+1 resilience. read more »

EMC: Storage business grows, profit dips

EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6 percent to US$5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1 percent year-over year to $580 million as costs rose. read more »

Schmidt says Google Glass still a year away

Google's Eric Schmidt said the company's wearable computer, Glass, is about a year from reaching the market. read more »

Next-gen USB SuperSpeed to eliminate power cords

USB SuperSpeed will move from 5Gbps bandwidth to 10Gbps in the coming year, but it's also leaping from 10 watts to 100 watts for charging, which could power monitors and even HDTVs. read more »

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New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators. read more »

How to pick a CPU when buying servers

As 2013 rolls in and the economy stabilises, many IT organisations are looking to upgrade their computational and storage systems. Like any IT purchasing decision, there are tradeoffs to consider and choices to make regarding hardware features and the technology available. When it comes to storage servers, the first step is understanding your CPU options. read more »

How to secure Big Data in Hadoop

The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls. read more »

Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users

If a September report in the New York Times is to be believed, worldwide data centres use up 30 billion watts of electricity - or the same as 30 nuclear power stations - in "an incongruously wasteful manner". read more »

HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm

Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling. read more »

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving

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