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Linux Box Developing New Alternative Email Archive
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-25
The Linux Box, an 11-year-old open source software development consultancy, has moved into beta on a new, customizable email archiving system aimed at mid-range enterprises.
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Google Stores, Deploys Good Ol' Pac-Man on Its Own Site
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-24
As if we don't already have enough distractions, Google has to go and make permanent its 30th anniversary tribute to the old chestnut, Pac-Man, by creating its own Web site.
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NextIO, Fusion-io Set Array Speed Record of 2.2M IOPS
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-24
A couple of I/O-focused storage companies have teamed up to set a new IOPS world record.
NextIO, a provider of I/O acceleration appliances for storage systems, and Fusion-io,
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Clearwell's Five Storage Landmines to Avoid in E-Discovery
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-21
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Clearwell Systems is one of the market leaders in the burgeoning e-discovery software business. There are many aspects to this kind of specialized
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Seagate Hard at Work on World's First 3TB Drive
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-19
Seagate isn't broadcasting it yet, but the world's largest disk drive-making company is moving ever closer to demonstrating the world's first 3TB hard drive for laptops and desktops.
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Toshiba Finds Itself on a NAND Flash Market Hot Streak
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-18
iSuppli, the smart Southern California-based IT analyst, tells us that the market landscape in NAND flash arena is changing.
Toshiba, which invented NAND flash in the 1970s
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EMC Offers 'New Onramp' for Building Private Storage Clouds
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-11
You'd think data storage nowadays would be as simple as loading it all on an on-site disk, uploading it to a cloud site or other location in the network, making sure all
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LSI Ships Its First Array Powered by 6Gb/s SAS
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-11
LSI, which doesn't get the storage industry notoriety that some of its competitors seem to attract, nonetheless is one of the most significant storage OEMs in the world.
On May 11,
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EMC-Cisco-Intel Startup Acadia Picks Former HP CEO as CEO
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-06
Back on Nov. 3, 2009, Cisco Systems, VMware, EMC and Intel formed the Acadia shared-equity startup in order to create and market modular cloud computing systems built
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How to Use Data Center History to Your Business Advantage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-05-04
The Station long has been a student of history. Count me among those who believe that for us to continue to evolve and improve as a society, we need to know history. We
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Say It Ain't So: Sony to Discontinue Making Floppy Disks
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-04-26
Funny, The Station had thought the floppy disk was put to sleep back in the early days of the George Dubya Bush administration. Guess not.
Sony, apparently a laggard
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Gear6 Reportedly Shutting Down Operations
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-04-23
This doesn't happen very often in the bustling storage hardware and storage-related software businesses, but The Station received tips April 23 from several reliable industry sources that
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Even Martial Arts Fighters Need Good Storage Systems
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-04-12
There is an amazingly random thread of things going on here at Storage Station. For example, did you know that even martial arts fighters need to have storage systems for their
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Nexenta Signs ZFS Co-creator for Its Advisory Board
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-04-09
Nexenta, a fast-rising provider of open storage software based on the Sun Microsystems-developed Zettabyte File System [ZFS], announced that Bill Moore, the co-creator of ZFS,
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VDI Provider Kaviza Reveals Investment from Citrix Systems
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-04-07
Kaviza. Remember that unusual name, because we'll be writing about it often here at eWEEK.
Kaviza, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., reminds me of "cabeza," the Spanish word
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