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25th June 2011 Archive

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  • Panasonic DMR-BWT700 HDD and Blu-ray recorder combo

    Review Unspoilt by progress

    Panasonic has a reputation for building digital TV recorders that have impressive features, but are about as user friendly as an angry dominatrix. Maintaining at least one tradition here, the DMR-BWT700 certainly doesn’t skimp on the feature front. It has a 350GB hard drive on board, packs a Blu-ray recorder and can burn discs …

    reghardware 25 Jun 07:00

  • Can virtualisation rejuvenate your old servers?

    When should you try the treatment?

    It is a commonly held belief that most servers sit around doing very little most of the time. So, according to the theory, it makes sense to take advantage of that otherwise wasted capacity by loading up a hypervisor and running multiple virtual servers on the same hardware. If only it were that simple. This kind of server …

    Data Centre 25 Jun 09:33

  • Violin tunes up for billion dollar flash gig

    Playing the big revenue game

    Violin Memory CEO Don Basile reckons Violin can repeat what Connor Peripherals did in disk drives, Cisco in networking, and NetApp in file storage; become a billion dollar a year revenue platform company. He'll do it with flash array technology because spinning disk is going to become rust, failing to keep up with the I/O …

    Storage 25 Jun 12:00