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An anonymous employee of a bidding contractor is quoted as saying in the report that the Apple data center's scale is unprecedented for his business. According to the report, Apple is still reviewing bids from various firms for the data center construction.

A Friday report on how mobile devices are now consuming the majority of the DRAM market sparked bloggy commentary declaring the decline of the PC. The report included provocative numbers, but the statistics deserve a reality check.

Have solid state drives finally caught up to hard disk drives in terms of cost to capacity ratio? A lot has changed in three years. SSDs today are far more reliable, have greater endurance and perform better (in some cases, two to three times better) than in 2009.

For brokerages, the utility capability of cloud computing shields trading firms from the massive investment required upfront to build a traditional data center which may not be able to support the business in a very relative short time as trading volumes increase.

For more than 50 years, hard disk drives have run on air. That's about to change.

The integration comes via the third-party Attachments.me application for Gmail.

Identifying, retrieving, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a subpoena can be a time-consuming and costly business. Processing just one gigabyte of data in response to an electronic discovery (ediscovery) request can cost at least $30,000, according to the Sedona Conference Journal.

Even if you're happy with Windows XP or Windows 7, these five reasons might be enough to make you want to upgrade to Windows 8.

Whether an organization is facing physical hardware damage, internal database corruption, or basic data deletion, recovery from a database is not as straightforward as some might assume.

Most of today’s WANs by themselves are simply unable to effectively move terabytes and petabytes of data into the cloud. And service providers are not in a position to assume the costs of supporting big data requirements due to competitive cost pressures.