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Miniaturized colonies of data and laser-assisted magnetization guns may sound like “Honey, I Shrunk the Server Farm,” but thanks to government-funded research and some healthy competition, these tools could be in your next disk drive. Two research grants were awarded last month for novel solutions to the age-old data storage dilemma of superparamagnetism, which is […]

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Intel Corp. will unveil a processor and a chip set at Comdex in Las Vegas this week designed to power a new wave of ultradense servers, although the hype surrounding the emergence of so-called ultradense blade designs this year has been dulled by poor sales. Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have […]

Network Appliance Inc. co-founder Dave Hitz is on a mission: “Our long-term goal is to displace EMC [Corp.].” To help the company in its quest, Hitz, who is also vice president of engineering at the Sunnyvale, Calif., company that specializes in network-attached storage, told eWEEK his company is preparing to unroll a massive product road […]

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If youre Nordstroms department store, and youve implemented the sale of cosmetics on the Web, what do you need to do besides wait for the profits to roll in? Paul Onnen, chief technology officer of Nordstrom.com, the online version of Nordstroms Inc., says it isnt that simple. The Web site is built on a Microsoft […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has pushed back the release of its first 64-bit processor designed for multiprocessor workstations and servers, codenamed Sledgehammer, from the second half of 2002 to early 2003. At its annual fall analysts meeting Thursday, AMD revealed new processor roadmaps that showed that while the first incarnation of its 64-bit Hammer architecture, […]

One thing about strategic alliances: When they fail—and they usually do—they tend to do it in conclusive fashion. Once the deal is announced, strategic priorities typically change, key employees move on, and in the end, all there is to show for the effort is a yellowed press release and an exchange of business cards. But […]

To give end users more data back-up options, Compaq Computer Corp. on Monday will announce a partnership with Atempo Inc. The deal will let Houston-based Compaq include Atempos network data management protocol (NDMP) technology into Compaq network-attached storage (NAS) units. The software will be included with all of Compaqs NAS units beginning early next year, […]

Many presumed online services are now in the dustbin of history. But one, data mining via the Internet, makes a lot of sense to its practitioners at WhiteCross Systems of London, Chicago and San Francisco. WhiteCross founders came out of the massively parallel machine producers, Teradata. A Teradata machine was adopted by Wal*Mart for data […]