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Femtocells tipped to save operators over $5bn
News The $5.3bn savings are based on the assumption that, without femtocells, operators would have to spend some $9bn on beefing up network coverage to take extra traffic — a figure which presupposes a third of this traffic will be handled by utilising...
[August 14, 2008, 10:39]
Managing your network for corporate growth
News As the company expands to multiple geographic locations, bandwidth capacity must support communications with distant sites. Disk/Storage capacity requirements. Except for the last, geographic expansion, all of these same factors will affect future...
[October 5, 2005, 11:35]
Giant Apple datacentre hints at cloud ambitions
News But that alone will not consume enough storage and server cycles to justify a tripling or quadrupling of its datacentre capacity. However, video is a resource hog in storage and CPU cycles, so a significant upgrade in capacity would make sense if...
[August 20, 2009, 17:34]
How to assess your storage needs
News Tracking these sudden explosions in storage needs back to their source allows us to more accurately estimate need, thereby smoothing out future capacity planning efforts. Each channel requires at least twice its current size in storage capacity; it...
[October 22, 2004, 11:40]
Intel to launch high-capacity solid-state drives
News Intel is planning to launch high-speed, high-capacity solid-state drives in the second quarter of this year. Intel already offers smaller-capacity solid-state chips, but this move will bring it into competition with companies like Toshiba and Samsung.
[March 13, 2008, 12:27]
Seagate revs up high capacity disks
News Seagate plans to announce its highest-capacity 15,000 revolutions-per-minute hard disks yet on Monday, with a 73GB model. As demand for storage increases, hard disk manufacturers are coming under increased pressure to squeeze more capacity out of a...
[May 3, 2002, 14:31]
Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive
News The vendor argues that the capacity of these kind of drives is now so high that they can replace the need for 3.5-inch desktop PC hard drives, which traditionally have offered greater storage capabilities.
[December 13, 2006, 13:45]
HP Insight Dynamics virtualises physical servers
News HP Insight Dynamics VSE also offers a real-time capacity planning tool for IT managers to analyse server capacity and power usage based on historical information that has been gathered by HP at its HP Labs facilities.
[March 18, 2008, 10:43]
UK gets fastest-ever wireless broadband
News Libera will offer business customers broadband capacity of between 1Mbps and 36Mbps. Customers will be able to choose the level of broadband capacity that they want. The company is also planning a national rollout that it says will eventually be...
[June 8, 2004, 18:45]
Sun pieces utility jigsaw together
News Five major customers in the oil and gas industry and in financial services are planning to join during the next two months, and some of them plan to book a dedicated computing capacity of more than 5,000 processors each, she said.
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
Break free from virtual bondage
News Besides taking up less space in the data centre, the network attached processing model has other benefits, such as better utilisation and simplified capacity planning. General-purpose servers aren't especially well designed for running virtual...
[November 23, 2005, 16:10]
HP unveils new quad-core servers
News The ProLiant DL580 G5 has double the memory capacity of its predecessor, the DL580 G4, while the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 is the manufacturer's first four-processor quad-core server blade. Speaking at a media briefing in Singapore, Tony Parkinson...
[September 7, 2007, 10:59]
Maxell to launch holographic storage next year
News Earlier this month, Turner Entertainment's vice-president of broadcast technology Ron Tarasoff said his company is planning to sell holographic disks that will retail for $100, and which in five years time will have a capacity of 1.6TB each.
[November 25, 2005, 13:05]
Rivals line up behind iPod
News A 1.8-inch hard drive has a 40GB capacity, which can translate into more than 650 hours of music. On the other hand, Cornice is competing with established manufacturers that offer products with more capacity.
[October 23, 2003, 11:15]
Ebookers widens the passage to India
News It now intends to increase the capacity of its business process outsourcing (BPO) facility from today's 600 staff up to 2,000. This additional capacity will be used to service third party clients. Online travel agency ebookers is planning a major...
[August 4, 2003, 16:35]
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News Jean Michel Jouanigot, head of network services for Cern, said the new centre will provide enough power to increase its processing capacity between five and tenfold. It is running at maximum capacity: the Swiss and the French networks here can...
[October 7, 2008, 13:38]
AMD: The not-so-great pretender
Leader It could divest itself of its Dresden fab plant, choosing the far less capital-intensive path of buying in capacity as needed; it could turn one or more of its five divisions into a joint venture with any of a number of other chip companies with...
[April 14, 2008, 15:23]
Verizon's CTO looks to a 4G future
News In terms of adding more capacity, there's still a lot we can do. We can continue to add capacity, but we think in the next two to three to four years that consumer expectations will outclass the 3G network.
[February 23, 2009, 12:45]
Intel delays new P4 due to 'anomalies'
News The 875P starts that transition by offering PCs a faster 800MHz bus, faster memory and an increased maximum hard drive capacity. RAID allows two hard drives to pool their storage capacity, turning, say, a pair of 120GB drives into a single storage...
[April 14, 2003, 14:05]
Price rises for unmetered Internet access
News In an email to its Flat Rate customers, AOL claimed its price rise reflects "investments in improved service and network capacity". The ISP said it had spent heavily on expanding its network capacity, invested in new technologies such as its AOL...
[April 2, 2002, 14:00]
