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NSA plans massive, 65MW, $2bn data center in Utah
Yes, Utah
The ultra-secretive National Security Agency plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah as it seeks to decentralize its computing resources and tap regions with ample supplies of lower-cost electricity.?
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LaCie gets comfy on the rack
12big product triple
External storage supplier LaCie has entered the rack world with a trio of products.?
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Hitachi GST buys Malaysian platter plant
Farewell Western Digital
A Western Digital plant in Sarawak, Malaysia, has been sold to Hitachi GST.?
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Hackintosh maker rises from the dead
'When life gives you apples, make applesauce'
Psystar, the Florida-based Hackintosher that's been giving Apple fits for over a year, refuses to die.?
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Dell cracks open EMEA PC services
Stretches to non-Dell iron plus servers
Looking for leverage and a few extra euros and pounds in EMEA, Dell has rolled out a set of modular services to help companies manage their PCs and - eventually - their servers.? Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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VirtenSys virtualises RAID controllers
Storage controllers and disk drives
VirtenSys has enabled the sharing of LSI MegaRAID host bus adapters between servers connected to its IOV switch.?
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Seagate's SSD may be a bit late
SoC problem makes for schedule jam
An investment bank briefing note says that Seagate has suffered a setback in its solid state drive (SSD) development project and may not ship product for testing until 2010, having previously said it will announce its enterprise SSD this year.?
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Unisys to build its own stealthy cloud
And it wants to build yours, too
Unisys may have not taken over the world as either a system maker or an outsourcer, but it's a player in both markets and it doesn't want the move to cloud computing to leave it behind.?
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Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop
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MacBook Air firmware update points to revamped batteries
MacBook Air owners who haven't checked Software Update for a couple of days will now find a firmware update awaiting them there. The download adds support for the "latest service replacement batteries".?
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Ricoh eyes up visual file search
Disclosure-style sniff-around to make backup fun again
Printer company Ricoh reckons you should be able to search visually for photos and files much like flipping through a photo album. It has started up a beta test in the USA for its snazzy quanp online storage service with 3D views of uploaded files.?
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EMC preps FCoE I/O module
Hot-swap UltraFlex
EMC has confirmed industry suspicious that is developing a hot-swap Ultraflex FCoE module for its storage arrays.?
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Sun's VirtualBox 3.0 exits betaland
xVM Server left behind
Update: This story originally said that Sun had not open-sourced VirtualBox. Sun does offer an open source version?
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Cisco cuddles all clouds but one
Leaves Amazonian play to the Amazons
Well, it's the end of June, and Cisco Systems' "California" Unified Computing System blade boxes and related networking is supposed to be shipping. In a webcast today with analysts, partners, and press that's part of a two-day analyst event called Cisco Live, representatives ignored two questions from El Reg about whether or not the California boxes were still shipping, but they did want to talk about cloud computing and how California, WebEx, and networking in general fit into the company's cloud strategy.?
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Google boasts of melting data center antidote
No chillers? No problem
Structure 09 Google is developing some sort of back-end technology that automatically - and nearly instantly - redistributes live compute loads when a data center is in danger of overheating. Or maybe this is just talk. Google prefers to at least maintain the illusion of data-center nirvana.?
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