Storage Bits
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Lazy emailers win: you're most efficient!
Carefully organized email boxes, with dozens of folders named and tagged, are a waste of time. Here’s why, according to researchers from IBM and Microsoft.
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Microsoft starts protecting your data
Apple’s warming trend in the enterprise is about to get squashed: Microsoft’s new ReFS file system - due in Windows 8 Server - will be the first major file system to fix data-destroying bugs in today’s most popular OSs. Apple’s much-patched and buggy HFS+ can’t come close.
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Why is Intel propping up Apple's competition?
Apple, like most PC makers, buys its PC processors from Intel. So why is Intel funding competitors to one of its largest customers? Apple should ask for $400 million off its next Intel CPU order.
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The great 2012 disk shortage
A Hitachi VP claims disk supplies won’t be back to normal until the end of this year. Should we care?
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Can Wintel win the Ultrabook market?
Battered by the iPad and the MacBook Air, PC makers and Intel are ganging up on Apple with Ultrabooks. Will this blunt Apple’s attack, or be another profitless bit of me-too-ism by the 20th century anachronism known as Wintel?
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5 trends to watch in 2012
Who has time to look back? What’s past is prologue: here are the business/technology fault lines I’ll be watching in 2012.
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Why drive vendors are cutting their warranties
Disk drive vendors Seagate and WD have cut their warranties by up to 80%. Why now?
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Why Apple is buying Anobit
Calcalist says that Apple is making its largest hardware acquisition ever: Israeli firm Anobit. Who are they and what would they do for Apple? I’ve spoken to Anobit’s CTO, Avraham Meir, and studied the technology. Here’s what they’re buying - and why.
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Storage gifts for Christmas 2011
Shopping for the geek who has everything? More storage is always welcome. While disk drives are pricey this year due to the Thai floods, other storage products are in plentiful supply with lower prices than last year. Here are my favorite picks.
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Is the Mac Pro dead?
Apple’s iconic tower system, the Mac Pro, is the slowest selling Mac. With the advent of ultrafast thunderbolt I/O on everything from the MacBook Air to quad core iMacs, do users need the Mac Pro anymore?
