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Deals of the week: IPS displays, graphics cards, storage, and games
We've gathered a pretty nice selection of deals this week. We've got a heavily discounted 23" IPS monitor, a Radeon that's on sale and bundled with three free games, and a couple of juicy storage deals. Take your pick: LG's IPS234V-PN, a 23" 1080p IPS display... Read More | View Original Article
Networking Gets Interesting Again
From software-defined networking to fabrics to powerful new switches, network vendors are fighting for a revitalized market. Read More | View Original Article
Smartphone Theft: What Is Best Defense?
The latest smartphones might feature screens with unparalleled colors and clarity, cutting-edge cameras, and the ability to run a bewildering array of apps. But why don't they build in better loss prevention? That's the gist of a plea issued this week by New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, who's written to the CEOs of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, urging them to "help crack down on cell phone theft" by making it more difficult for thieves to wipe stolen devices' memory and resell the devices. Read More | View Original Article
Tunga molnservrar från Karlskrona
City Network har utökat till utbud av virtuella servrar i tjänsten City Cloud med 20 nya hårdvaruprofiler. Nu kan man exempelvis kan få en server med 16 kärnor och arbetsminne på 128 GB. Read More | View Original Article
Release roundup: Flash drives, Thunderbolt, and an arcade controller
This week on the roundup, we've got news about flash drives from Adata, a Thunderbolt-enabled Haswell mobo from ASRock, and an arcade-style fighting game controller from Razer: More value added to Adata's DashDrive series. Say hello to Adata's DashDrive UV150, which brings USB 3.0 connectivity and... Read More | View Original Article
Amazon, Microsoft Partner Up for Cloud Management
New software lets Microsoft System Center users manage both AWS and Windows Azure cloud services from a single console. Read More | View Original Article
Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White have departed the flash memory company just weeks after acquiring NexGen Storage, a startup. Reports say Fusion-io's board wasn't satisfied with revenue growth. Read More | View Original Article
VMware Fights Android BYOD Headaches
VMware announced Wednesday the availability of its Horizon Mobile product for certain Android-based Verizon smartphones. The technology establishes a second instance of Google's mobile OS on a compatible device, allowing employees to keep their personal content separate from an IT-controlled workspace. Read More | View Original Article
Lagring allt viktigare för Red Hat
Hösten 2011 köpte Red Hat lagringsspecialisten Gluster och har nu fått styrfart på lagringssatsningen. Det innebär även att man knutit till sig extra lagringskompetens på det svenska kontoret. Read More | View Original Article
Eliminating Noisy Neighbors in the Public Cloud
An IaaS provider is using all-SSD arrays and storage QoS to ensure that some tenants can’t disrupt performance of others by overconsuming resources. Read More | View Original Article
Motorola Launches 802.11ac APs
Motorola joins a growing number of enterprise WLAN players with early 802.11ac products. Here's how its new APs stack up. Read More | View Original Article
At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
Scale-out storage systems have proven to be a perfect remedy for coping with the flood of unstructured data inundating enterprise IT. Whether it's user home directories, email system repositories or rich media file shares, scale-out arrays, where capacity can be quickly increased by adding Lego-like storage nodes, have proven to be easier to deploy and scale than traditional big iron storage systems. Read More | View Original Article
Här finns plats för 15 hårddiskar
60 terabyte. Så mycket rymmer Synologys nya skalbara nas-modell DS1513+ med plats för upp till 15 hårddiskar. Read More | View Original Article
Därför är flashminne Wozniaks favorit
Att paketera flashminne som hårddisk är slöseri med fart. Det anser Fusion-io och Steve Wozniak. Read More | View Original Article
Iron Mountain Opens Underground Data Center to All
The Pennsylvania site will provide data center space and related services, and customers will be able to take advantage of the company's retail colocation offering. Read More | View Original Article
Inside Google's Software-Defined Network
Google shared details on its production use of OpenFlow in its SDN network at this spring's Open Networking Summit. Read More | View Original Article
Driftteknikerns roll är på väg att förändras radikalt, när mjukvarudefinierade datacenter nu börjar bli verklighet. Förbered dig på att bli automatiseringsexpert! Read More | View Original Article
Snart står serverhallarna tomma
Driftteknikerns roll är på väg att förändras när mjukvarudefinierade datacenter blir verklighet. Read More | View Original Article
Software Hot, Hardware Not, At EMC World, Interop
After a week that started at EMC World, where the talk was of storage systems, big data and information-driven applications, and ended at Interop, where the spotlight was on programmable networks, enabling and taming the mobile ecosystem and the "Internet of Things", it's clear that the emphasis across the IT world is rapidly shifting from hardware to software. Read More | View Original Article
EMC har lanserat vad man kallar för världens första mjukvarudefinierade lagringsplattform. Vipr gör det möjligt att automatisera all lagringsinfrastruktur via ett centralt gränssnitt. Read More | View Original Article
Så förenklar HP molnhanteringen
HP bygger ut administrationen av publika och privata moln, med tre uppdaterade administrationspaket. Read More | View Original Article
Amazon goes large for direct-to-cloud links
Lower costs, better performance mooted. Read More | View Original Article
En tredjedel ssd-diskar om tre år
Om tre år kan vi räkna med att en tredjedel av de persondatorer som säljs är utrustade med en ssd-disk. Read More | View Original Article
Twitter har förvärvat programföretaget Lucky Sort. Read More | View Original Article
Knowledge Is Key When Implementing SDN
Companies must confront security concerns and vendor hype when planning and adopting software-defined networking. Read More | View Original Article
Huawei CEO Dismisses Security, Spying Concerns
The founder and CEO of Chinese networking equipment manufacturer Huawei, in his first-ever media interview, Thursday dismissed allegations that backdoors may have been built into the company's products to facilitate Chinese espionage. "Huawei has no connection to the cybersecurity issues the U.S. has encountered in the past, current and future," Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, 68, told local reporters -- through an interpreter -- while on a visit to New Zealand this week, according to news reports. Read More | View Original Article
Deal of the week: 4TB for $184, and other goodies
We'll keep this week's deal post short and sweet, starting with a few hardware bargains: Seagate's Desktop HDD.15 4TB hard drive is down to $183.57 at Amazon. That works out to about 4.6 cents per gigabyte, which is pretty darned cheap. If 1TB hard drives... Read More | View Original Article
Corsair sheds light on Haswell PSU support, lists compatible units
If you were reading TR last week, you probably know about Haswell's new low-power state, which causes compatibility problems with some PSUs. When the story broke, Corsair said it believed all of its PSUs were compatible. However, it was still checking to make sure. Corsair has now publisehd a... Read More | View Original Article
