Lucas Mearian

Through the new archiving feature, any posts to an organization's publicly-facing social media outlets -- including blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds -- can be preserved to comply with open-records requests and industry regulations

The XIV Gen.3 array is priced at about US$2M and arrives in September. The company claims the new system is up to four times faster than the previous Gen.2 model

While many of today's SSDs contain a garbage collection algorithm in their controller's firmware, it can create write amplification, or increased data movement on the NAND flash memory, which causes the drive to wear out more quickly

Phase-change memory offers 100 times the write performance of NAND flash. IBM said PCM can sustain up to 5 million write cycles

iPad and iPhone devices push Apple to the top, ahead of HP, says iSuppli. In 2010, HP lead the market in microprocessor purchases with US$5.3 billion spent, followed by Dell with $4.2 billion and Apple with $2.5 billion

New unit, aimed at large enterprises and cloud service providers, can produce up to 2.5Gbit/sec of WAN bandwidth, and allows up to 256,000 simultaneous sessions.rn

The cloud services offering for capital markets goes live July 1

The new remote Sepaton replication appliance compresses and deduplicates data. The DS3 appliances work in concert with Sepaton's enterprise-class S2100-ES2 data centre backup array, which can store between 12TB and 1.6 petabytes of data