Aimed at gamers and graphics professionals, Scorpio Black drives boast data transfer speeds (buffer to host) of up to a maximum of 3Gbits/per second. – Western Digital, which released the first 3TB-capacity internal SATA hard disk drive nine weeks ago,
Jan. 5 announced that it has started shipping a new 2.5-inch, 750GB
SATA hard drive for OEMs that make high-performance laptops and portable
storage devices.
WD’s Scorpio Black drives,
speedier …
One key challenge for IT is ensuring their data centers deliver critical applications with high performance to users 24/7, in a secure and optimized way. An intelligent application delivery controller that optimizes the application infrastructure in the data center is now a necessity in the enterprise. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Sunil Cherian explains why IT should consider deploying integrated, secure and cost-effective application delivery controllers to ensure the availability, acceleration and security of applications.
– A typical enterprise has a mix of Microsoft applications, enterprise applications, multimedia applications and cloud computing applications. Whether it is a large enterprise or a small and midsize business, this inflated application infrastructure in the data center introduces challenges related to …
With a faster spindle speed of 10,000 rpm, WD’s new VelociRaptor hard drives aim to replace slower, smaller drives in all kinds of machines, including gaming platforms, high-performance blade servers, high-end PC workstations and Macintoshes, and standard rack servers.
– Western Digital, which wants to be known as WD, on April 5 started shipping
the fastest, most capacious 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive it has ever made.
At 600GB, the VelociRaptor VR200M doubles the capacity of the original version,
which was released in 2008. A 450GB model is also available.
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Brocade is looking to give service providers a switch that will offer the performance they want in a compact and energy-efficient form factor. The NetIron CER 2000 Series switch offers 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10G Ethernet capabilities in a 1U form factor with almost three times the performance of a comparable Cisco switch while taking up 33 percent less space and consuming 66 percent less power, Brocade officials say.
– Brocade Communications Systems is offering service providers a new switching
router that it says brings 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities
along with enhanced space and power efficiency.
Brocade’s NetIron CER 2000 Series compact switch, announced Nov. 17, offers
high perform…
Micron is manufacturing a multilevel cell enterprise NAND chip for added storage capacity and a single-level cell device for added performance. The company is sampling both new enterprise NAND devices with systems makers and controller manufacturers and is expected to be in full production by 2010.
– Micron Technology, which was forced to close
down its NAND flash memory production facility in Boise, Idaho, in 2008 in a cost-cutting measure, is keeping
its two remaining fabrication facilities co-owned with Intel busy in Lehi,
Utah, and Manassas, Va.
The company announced Oct. 19 that it is…
IBM officials say the PowerPC 476FP processing core will be the highest performing and most efficient embedded processor core in the industry. IBM is aiming the new processor core at SoC product families in such industries as communications, storage and defense. LSI also using the 476FP in developing a configurable L2 caches that is tightly coupled to the core. The announcement comes as Intel prepares to talk about “Jasper Forest,” which will bring its “Nehalem” microarchitecture to the embedded space.
– IBM is unveiling what officials say is the highest performing and most energy efficient embedded processor aimed at SoC (system-on-chip) products.
Developed in collaboration with LIS, IBM Sept. 15 announced the PowerPC 476FP processor core, aimed at SoC products in such sectors as storage, consumer…
