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	OCZ releases performance-boosting SSD firmware, new 64GB drive OCZ today announced a firmware upgrade that boosts performance about 15MB/sec on its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 SSDs. The company also touted a new 64GB Vertex 4 SSD aimed at mobile applications or for use as a boot drive. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering rapid deployment of a modular data center Implementing an energy-efficient, compact data center can potentially reduce your operating costs-and carbon footprint-while making better of unused, outdoor space and equipment. Learn More. In this Issue Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory DDR3 memory successor coming next year, Micron says Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information PHP will try again to patch chip flaw TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features INSIDER Red Sky Alliance: An experiment in information sharing RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD On the heels of Western Digitial's announcing the industry's first 12Gbps SAS SSD, Seagate this week said it would demo one of its own for the enterprise market. Read More Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory Researchers were able to use diamond tipped tools to add pressure to a phase-change memory alloy and increase its data storing capacity, its performance and its ability to store data longer. Read More DDR3 memory successor coming next year, Micron says Micron on Monday said that DDR4 memory -- the successor to DDR3 DRAM -- will reach computers next year, and that the company has started shipping samples of the upcoming DDR memory type. Read More Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD Coming in 120GB and 240GB capacities, and priced at $430 and $700 respectively, Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD is a solid-state drive that offers a nice speed boost over FireWire 800, but is overall slower than other Thunderbolt drives we've tested. (We tested the 240GB version.) Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Building a Long Term Information Systems Strategic Plan Read the white paper to find out how your organization can utilize virtualization to attain the capacity and bandwidth needed to handle the information explosion. Read it now. Learn More. Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion Apple's latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company's encryption technology, a software consultant said. Read More Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information Recognizing that health information exchanges will be built by public and private efforts, the U.S. government office in charge of Health IT said it want to provide incentives for their adoption through standards, as well as by using carrots and sticks. Read More PHP will try again to patch chip flaw The PHP Group plans to release new versions of the PHP processor on Tuesday in order to patch two publicly known critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which was improperly addressed in a May 3 update. Read More TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features Despite many competitors, Dropbox is the de facto standard for syncing files across one's own computers and sharing them with others. New features rolled out Monday extend Dropbox's reach substantially by making it possible to create a public, revokable link to any file or folder in a Dropbox sync folder. Previously, only items in a special Public folder could be shared, and the links couldn't be canceled; the item had to be moved out of the folder. Read More INSIDER Red Sky Alliance: An experiment in information sharing Chris Camacho, information security officer at The World Bank Group in Washington D.C., explains how the Red Sky alliance helps member organizations safely share information. Read More
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