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Industry voice: How the flash new kids on the block are muscling aside the old storage giants

By Gavin McLaughlin All actors, singers and performers know there comes a time when their place in the spotlight will be taken by someone else. It’s a natural progression. Some of them accept their diminishing fame with good grace, making a good living from supporting roles or performing fewer gigs in smaller venues. Others refuse…

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Using a SSD? This news will make you want to backup right now

By Jamie Hinks Tricky data recovery of lost files is failing to halt the spread of SSDs in organisations with just less than 90 per cent of companies enjoying the reliability and speed that the storage provides. A technology use survey conducted by Kroll Ontrack reported that a third of global respondents have experienced a…

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Using a SSD? This news will make you want to backup right now

By Jamie Hinks Tricky data recovery of lost files is failing to halt the spread of SSDs in organisations with just less than 90 per cent of companies enjoying the reliability and speed that the storage provides. A technology use survey conducted by Kroll Ontrack reported that a third of global respondents have experienced a…

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Review: Gigabyte P35K v3

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design PC gaming is an expensive endeavor. Whether you’re purchasing a desktop rig or something more portable, building your own or buying a prebuilt system, or just picking up a Steam Machine, expect to drop a significant chunk of change. A few machines try to offer decent performance for a…

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Review: Gigabyte P35K v3

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design PC gaming is an expensive endeavor. Whether you’re purchasing a desktop rig or something more portable, building your own or buying a prebuilt system, or just picking up a Steam Machine, expect to drop a significant chunk of change. A few machines try to offer decent performance for a…

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Intel Atom Cherry Trail rebranding is based on performance

By Chuong Nguyen To make it easier for consumers to understand the different performance levels of its mobile and tablet processors, Intel is splitting its Atom brand into three lines. Starting with the next generation Atom Cherry Trail – we’re currently on Bay Trail – Atom CPUs will be classified as the Atom x3, Atom…

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Intel Atom Cherry Trail rebranding is based on performance

By Chuong Nguyen To make it easier for consumers to understand the different performance levels of its mobile and tablet processors, Intel is splitting its Atom brand into three lines. Starting with the next generation Atom Cherry Trail – we’re currently on Bay Trail – Atom CPUs will be classified as the Atom x3, Atom…

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Review: HP Envy 7640

By Kane Fulton Introduction The Envy 7640 is one of several models in HP’s refreshed fleet of all-in-one colour printers aimed at homes and small offices. The 7640 is one of the first to feature compatibility with HP’s Instant Ink service, which delivers ink to your door when you’re almost in need of a top-up…

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Review: HP Envy 7640

By Kane Fulton Introduction The Envy 7640 is one of several models in HP’s refreshed fleet of all-in-one colour printers aimed at homes and small offices. The 7640 is one of the first to feature compatibility with HP’s Instant Ink service, which delivers ink to your door when you’re almost in need of a top-up…

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Review: Gigabyte P37X

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory. With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the P37X brings the experience of using a desktop PC to mobile computing.…

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Review: Gigabyte P37X

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory. With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the P37X brings the experience of using a desktop PC to mobile computing.…

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Industry voice: Don’t be conned over software-defined storage: how to spot the real deal

By Kate Canestrari We are rapidly entering the era of the software-defined enterprise, where all IT resources will be managed, provisioned and stored virtually. In fact, Gartner has identified “software-defined anything” as one of its top ten strategic technologies, an accolade given to technologies the analyst house believes have “the potential to have a significant…

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Industry voice: Don’t be conned over software-defined storage: how to spot the real deal

By Kate Canestrari We are rapidly entering the era of the software-defined enterprise, where all IT resources will be managed, provisioned and stored virtually. In fact, Gartner has identified “software-defined anything” as one of its top ten strategic technologies, an accolade given to technologies the analyst house believes have “the potential to have a significant…

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ARM teams with IBM to release Raspberry Pi cousin

By Desire Athow Two of the biggest names in technology have come together to release a starter kit for those interested in the Internet of Things, commonly known as IoT. Big Blue, which is trying to reinvent it as a Cloud-first company, will provide with the back-end infrastructure including paid-for cloud-based tools to analyse data…

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ARM teams with IBM to release Raspberry Pi cousin

By Desire Athow Two of the biggest names in technology have come together to release a starter kit for those interested in the Internet of Things, commonly known as IoT. Big Blue, which is trying to reinvent it as a Cloud-first company, will provide with the back-end infrastructure including paid-for cloud-based tools to analyse data…

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