Data Center

Fri, September 03, 2010 - Due to incorrect information from the research company, the story, "Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says," which was posted to the wire Friday, misstated the market share of 3Par in the second quarter. The company had 0.78 percent of the market.

Fri, September 03, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.

Fri, September 03, 2010 - Dell has thrown in the towel and conceded the 3PAR bidding war to HP. With that epic struggle behind it, Dell has to determine its next steps--sans 3PAR and now competing against the cloud storage service it had hoped to be offering.

Thu, September 02, 2010 - Northrop Grumman today said it was sorry for a days-long data center disruption that left 26 Virginia state agencies without online services.

Thu, September 02, 2010 - The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, research company IDC said on Friday.

Thu, September 02, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for US$2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.

Thu, September 02, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer for virtualized storage vendor 3PAR to US$33 per share, or roughly $2.4 billion, from its previous bid of $30 per share, 3PAR said Thursday. The move tops Dell's latest offer of $32 per share, according to 3PAR.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard announced an agreement with chip fabricator Hynix to bring a new form of non-volatile memory out of research and into the commercial marketplace. The technology, which will be called ReRAM, is faster and denser than today's flash memory.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity to cut costs as well. Fujitsu is rolling out some new services Wednesday that aim to help companies tackle both areas at once, and it claims they can reduce a company's IT energy bills by 20 percent on average.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - 3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find.

Wed, September 01, 2010 - The Wikileaks whistleblowing website has reportedly moved its server hosting to a Cold War bunker deep under the streets of Stockholm.