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How about a Wii bit more storage, Nintendo?

Every company off-site retreat that we have, our gaming aficionado brings several consoles for the rest of us to play with, and the Wii always draws the biggest after-hours crowd. It's an amazing piece of technology. So why is it that Nintendo can't pack more than half a gigabyte of storage into its system?

| Opinion | Personal tech | Storage | 07/24/08 at 5:26 pm |

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Microsoft to buy data-warehouse appliance vendor

Microsoft continues its shopping spree to bolster its SQL Server database platform to make it more suitable for large-scale enterprise deployments. On Thursday the company said it plans to buy DATAllegro, a privately held maker of data-warehouse appliances.


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My Book Mirror Edition RAIDs your data

There's no such thing as too much protection for your valuable files. Although external hard drives can provide backup copies of files on your hard drive, what if you use external drives for primary storage? Sure, you can use yet another external backup drive, but a better solution might be a RAID array with two drives. Western Digital offers such a system with its new My Book Mirror Edition ($549.99).

| Product review | Storage | 07/24/08 at 11:32 am |

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EMC revenue, profit defy economic woes

EMC's revenue grew 18 percent in the second quarter ended June 30, a result the company attributed to massive growth in the data enterprises need to store.

| News | Business | Storage | 07/23/08 at 2:36 pm |

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