More businesses now look to cloud backup services to store and protect their critical data â?? but issues of reliability and recovery time remain.

SSD flash price slash

What a turn up for the books: Hitachi GST has just introduced a multi-level cell SSD that's faster – not slower – than its single level cell product. It's also cheaper, but that's expected.…

To better understand the dynamic behaviour of cities, the City of Portland and IBM have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn identify opportunities to become a 'smarter city'. The model was built to support the development of metrics for the Portland Plan, the City's roadmap for the next 25 years.

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Nexsan Corp. comes up with its own NAS array, the E5000, with support for tiering software and solid-state caching to boost performance.