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	Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods | WD releases 4TB enterprise drives, again
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	Could gas shortage pop WD's helium drive plans? With worldwide demand and prices at an all-time high, Western Digital's plans to use helium in its drives may be ill-timed as the world's reserves are quickly drawing down. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Cloud Solutions for BC/DR Leverage the cloud to meet business continuity and disaster recovery challenges. CA ARCserve offers a full range of products, from bare-metal restore to full automatic failover for high availability, with options to deploy on-premise, off-premise, or in the cloud. Learn More In this Issue Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods WD releases 4TB enterprise drives, again My Book VelociRaptor Duo pricey but fast and feature-rich Two factories, two fates: Foxconn and Sharp Oracle OpenWorld 2012: CEO Larry Ellison on two of his keynote announcements WEBCAST: SNW Big Data, Big Opportunity Reviews recent research conducted by Computerworld on the topic of Business Analytics and Big Data. Also features a discussion regarding the urgency of dealing with rapidly growing amounts of data in our datacenters and why converting unstructured data into business value is critical for IT departments. Learn more Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. Read More WD releases 4TB enterprise drives, again Western Digital today announced it is selling 7200RPM, 4TB hard drives, just as it announced in the spring. The difference? In the spring it rolled out 4TB drives from its HGST subsidiary. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Strategic Guide to Converged Infrastructure In this exclusive Computerworld Strategic Guide you'll benefit from the experience of IT managers who have implemented infrastructure convergence in their own data centers, including those who have used this new architecture as a platform for next-generation initiatives through case studies and articles. Read Now! My Book VelociRaptor Duo pricey but fast and feature-rich With the introduction of the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, Western Digital adds another Thunderbolt-ready model to its growing line of My Book desktop storage devices. The VelociRaptor Duo takes Western Digital's My Book Thunderbolt Duo and gives it a significant performance boost by replacing WD's Green drive mechanisms with its VelociRaptor mechanisms. With these 10,000-rpm drives inside--to go along with the 10 Gbps Thunderbolt connectivity--the VelociRaptor Duo is intended to rival the performance of solid state drives, and in our tests, it proved to be more than a worthy competitor. Read More Two factories, two fates: Foxconn and Sharp A massive Foxconn complex gobbles up land and workers, while a Sharp plant fades quietly away Read More Oracle OpenWorld 2012: CEO Larry Ellison on two of his keynote announcements Larry Ellison announced that Oracle will begin offering infrastructure as a service and also a private version of the same thing that Oracle can run for companies. Read More
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