NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices

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	NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems from 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Growing Your Business Without a Crystal Ball Learn how an upgrade at Opus Interactive allows scalable storage growth with 40 percent less upfront cost. Read Now! In this Issue Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices Sony to launch flash cards with 125 Mbps write speeds Live coverage from CES 2012 DRAM oversupply adds salt to wounded market Acer to offer free cloud service, shows super-slim ultrabook Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers Marvell unveils first scalable PCIe NAND flash controller Gartner lowers 2012 IT spending forecast to 3.7% growth RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 4: ACCELERATE BUSINESS RESULTS WITH YOUR CLOUD. WEBINAR - JANUARY 19, 2012. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to optimize cloud economics, reshape behavior for IT-as-a-Service, and streamline cross-functional collaboration. REGISTER NOW Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices Everyone likes it when prices fall, right? But there may be a point when flash memory gets too cheap for its own good. Read More Sony to launch flash cards with 125 Mbps write speeds Sony said Friday it will begin selling memory cards with write speeds of 125 Mbps, the fastest in the industry, from February. Read More Live coverage from CES 2012 See the latest live reports and photos from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More DRAM oversupply adds salt to wounded market The DRAM market, already suffering from low demand, now faces an alarming rise in inventory that threatens to further sink the industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-Discovery - Experts Tell All In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CIO, Network World, and IT World examine some of the hottest issues around e-discovery and archiving today. Read on to discover how some organizations are approaching data-management challenges, and the tools that are available to help. View Now Acer to offer free cloud service, shows super-slim ultrabook Acer kicked off CES on Sunday by previewing a free cloud service for storing images and other documents online, and showing a novel ultrabook that hides its I/O ports in a hidden pop-up section at the back. Read More Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers. Read More Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks. Read More Marvell unveils first scalable PCIe NAND flash controller Marvell today unveiled a new solid state storage controller that can be used to create PCIe-based flash cards that scale up in performance and capacity using commodity hardware. Read More Gartner lowers 2012 IT spending forecast to 3.7% growth Research firm Gartner announced Thursday that it has lowered its 2012 IT spending forecast, with spending expected to rise only 3.7 percent, rather than the previous forecast of 4.6 percent growth. Read More
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