SanDisk is about to announce job cuts of around 15 per cent of its staff – or between 450 to 500 employees.
Quoting unnamed industry sources, Engadget reported today that the job losses were to reduce costs following a USD $155 million Q3 loss and sales that have sunk by 21 per cent year-on-year to USD $281 million.
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Carrier-neutral data center expert, Interxion, is to expand the capacity of its London City data center for the second time this year.
Growing customer demand for high power density infrastructure is behind the expansion.
Unified storage has yet to make an impact on IT decision makers, with few even able to define what it stands for and even less aware of the business benefits of implementation, according to a survey.
The study was conducted by Gartner and ONStor among 1600 global IT and business decision makers.
Infineon Technologies and Micron Technology have announced a joint-venture to develop high-density subscriber identity module (HD-SIM) cards with a capacity greater than 128MB.
HD-SIMs combine high density with improved security functionality, which the firms say enables operators to offer services such as mobile banking and contactless mobile ticketing.
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The Photo Archival Company has launched a new archiving service that stores digital camcorder footage to Blu-ray Disc or DVD.
Charles Laughlin, president and founder of The Photo Archival Company, said it would unlock millions of hours of video.
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.
By 2011, the digital data universe will be ten times the size it was in 2006, according to research from IDC.
This digital-data explosion will require IT organizations to adopt new tools and standards to ensure an efficient information infrastructure.
Microsoft this week finally laid out its cloud-computing strategy during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, announced Windows Azure, a cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform.
Backup tapes are being neglected by administrators, according to a study conducted jointly by security vendor Thales Group and Trust Catalyst.
The results of the survey of 330 large enterprises worldwide showed that 35 per cent don’t know if they will encrypt their backup tapes.
A rapid rise in losses from giant databases highlights the need for tougher sanctions to deter such security breaches, according to a privacy watchdog.
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is also calling on chief executives to take responsibility for the personal information their organisations hold.