09/12/2009 - IDC: EMC Led The Overall Storage Software Market in Q3

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced another decline in year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09) with revenues of $2.87 billion, representing –7.9% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.2% growth from the previous quarter (2Q09).

IDC report shows EMC led the overall market with 23.4% revenue share in the third quarter of 2009. Symantec held onto the second position with 17.8% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.2% revenue share.

17/11/2009 - Research: Bringing Cloud into the Datacenter Transformation

“Datacenter transformation is a stark reality facing most customers in the Asia/Pacific region,” says IDC. Based on its recent datacenter research, the ageing and somewhat inefficient datacenters that were built seven-ten years ago are struggling to keep up with the current technology – leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity.

“However – the report says - the current economic environment has led many CxOs to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same.”

29/10/2009 - Intel and Numonyx Announce a Breakthrough in PCM Technology

Intel and Numonyx, a provider of memory technologies, announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die.

23/10/2009 - iSuppli Reports Strong DRAM Market Growth

The DRAM industry in the second and third quarters of 2009 posted the strongest sequential growth in revenue and pricing seen in at least five years, indicating that the recent market rebound is real and is likely to continue into 2010, according to iSuppli.

“The continued increase in prices comes as another indicator that the DRAM market is emerging from what has been a long and painful slump,” said Mike Howard, senior analyst, DRAM, for iSuppli.

26/06/2009 - IT Execs Doubt Virtualization is Data Recovery Remedy

Separate backup data center locations are not being used by many companies to provide the complete data-recovery system, according to research.
Instead they are relying on failover to separate storage arrays and servers within the same physical building.

05/06/2009 - Disk Storage System Sales Badly Impacted By Economy

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues fell 13.6 per cent year-on-year to USD $4.2 billion in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), according to IDC.
For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market declined to USD $5.6 billion in revenues, an 18.2 per cent decline from the prior year's first quarter.

22/05/2009 - Optical Media With 1.6 Terabyte Capacity Created

Researchers have announced they have created a "five-dimensional" optical media that can hold up to 1.6 terabytes of data.
The team from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said the technology could easily be on the market within 10 years.

24/04/2009 - Report Aims To Demystify "Hype and Rhetoric" Around Green Data Storage

Storage vendors worldwide have jumped on the "green" bandwagon in their marketing campaigns, but it's often hard to determine which technologies move beyond hype and rhetoric to have a real positive impact.
A new report from Forrester Research suggests, however, that adopting an environmentally responsible approach to storage can help to make it more efficient, reducing capital and operating costs at the same time.

29/10/2008 - Researchers Opt For COPAN's Fast Access and Security

One of the world's leading life science research institutes announced today that it has chosen a COPAN Systems-based storage solution to meet its demanding data storage needs.
Located in Basel, Switzerland, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research’s was seeking a storage solution for its life science data.

21/09/2008 - IBM Scientists Unlock the Secret of the Kondo Effect

Scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA have forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing phenomenon in fundamental physics: the Kondo effect. They report their findings today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.

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18/09/2008 - Egyptian Government and IBM Initiatives to Develop Scientific Research, University Curriculum and IT Exports

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched a Global Service Delivery Center based in Egypt and signed agreements with the government to create a nanotechnology research center and develop a services science university curriculum.

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17/09/2008 - IBM and iEnterprises Integrate Business Social Networking for CRM

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and iEnterprises today announced the integration of iEnterprises? customer relationship management (CRM) software, iExtensions CRM, with IBM?s social networking platform, Lotus Connections.

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17/09/2008 - IBM Opens Center for Social Software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the creation of the IBM Center for Social Software, bringing together the brightest minds from IBM to work with clients, partners, university students and faculty, creating the industry?s premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software.

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16/09/2008 - IBM, ITRI Collaborate to Advance New Solid-State Memory

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Taiwan?s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to further explore "Racetrack Memory," an entirely new approach to solid state memory. Racetrack Memory was conceived by IBM Fellow Dr. Stuart Parkin at IBM?s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.

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11/09/2008 - IBM and Smithsonian

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11/09/2008 - IBM Delivers New Mobility Services for the Healthcare Industry

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new services to help healthcare organizations implement wireless mobility solutions to meet their 21st century objectives towards efficiency and quality. For many facilities, an investment in wireless communications is the first step in achieving a digital "hospital of the future," starting with enhanced communication networks that improve clinician speed and accuracy in decision-making.

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08/09/2008 - IBM Announces Sweeping Initiative to Address Major Shift in The Flow of World's Data

IBM today announced its largest launch ever of new storage hardware, software and services that are the building blocks for the world?s strongest information infrastructure portfolio. The new IBM offerings are designed to enable businesses, governments and other institutions to transform static data managed in silos into more dynamic information that is accessible by individuals wherever they go in a cloud computing environment.

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08/09/2008 - MADE IN IBM LABS: New Technology Preserves Photos, Videos, Healthcare Records and more for Decades

IBM Research today announced an entirely new way to preserve digital information, so it can be read decades after it was created despite future changes in digital formats.

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08/09/2008 - MADE IN IBM LABS: IBM Research Unveils Storage Innovations

As part of IBM?s largest launch ever of new storage hardware, software and services -- the building blocks for the world?s strongest information infrastructure portfolio ? the company today outlined next-generation technologies incubating in IBM?s labs that could further enhance future information infrastructure offerings.

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03/09/2008 - Made in IBM Labs: IBM Moves Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Into 3-D

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research announced a new project, dubbed "Sametime 3-D," demonstrating the integration of Lotus Sametime with several virtual environments. The project showcases the business value virtual environments can bring to the future of C

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28/08/2008 - IBM Breaks Performance Records Through Systems Innovation

Engineers and researchers at the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California have demonstrated groundbreaking performance results that outperform the world's fastest disk storage solution by over 250(1) percent.

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18/08/2008 - IBM Gives Voice to the Stories and Lives of Alaskans

LitSite Alaska (www.litsite.org) -- an interactive Web site with a wealth of information, insights and stories about the history, diversity, culture and traditions of Alaskans -- is bringing native language and stories to life using IBM (NYSE: IBM) cutting-edge speech technology. Over 1,000 pages of text have been enhanced with audio files, using IBM WebSphere Voice Server text-to-speech software. These audio files even include uncommon pronunciations of Alaskan native names and words such as KwaashKiKwaan, Tlingit, and Inupiaq.

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18/08/2008 - Made in IBM Labs: IBM Research Unleashes Powerful Speech Software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of state-of-the-art speech recognition software to clients and partners exploring the development of real-world consumer and business solutions.

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18/08/2008 - IBM Builds World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its joint development partners -- AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) -- today announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) for the 22 nanometer (nm) technology node, the world's first reported working cell built at its 300mm research facility in Albany, NY.

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18/08/2008 - IBM Software Supports Shared Health's Mission to Improve Patient Care Through Better Access to Healthcare Data

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Shared Health(R), one of the nation's largest public/private Health Information Exchanges (HIE) in the U.S., is using IBM InfoSphere software and services to power its newly-launched Clinical Xchange(TM) data exchange platform.

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