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IBM Claims "World's Smallest Computer"

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The IBM Think 2018 conference is all about the latest from Big Blue, and one such project comes in a very small package-- a computer the size of a grain of rock salt packing the power of a 1990 x86 chip.

IBM tiny computerThe extra-tiny (1 x 1mm!) computer is part of the "5 in 5," a collection of inventions and technologies IBM Research says "could change our lives in the next 5 years." It consists of a few hundred thousand transistors, an unspecified amount of RAM, a solar cell and an LED-based communications module. IBM adds it should be very cheap to produce, at around 10c apiece.

Nimbus Data Claims Biggest SSD

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Nimbus Data pushes the SSD size goalposts as it announces the ExaDrive DC100-- a storage device the company claims crams 100TB of 3D flash memory in the standard 3.5-inch SATA form factor.

Nimbus Data SSDFor the curious, 100TB allows one to store 20 million songs, 20000 HD movies or 2000 iPhones worth of data. The record comes just a month after Samsung claimed to have the biggest SSD, the 30TB PM1643.

IDC: WW Q4 2017 Monitor Shipments Total 31.7 Million

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Global monitor shipments total 31.7 million units in Q4 2017, IDC reports-- a 2.5% Y-o-Y increase fueled by the holiday season, although the analyst expects declines for the near future.

IDC monitors

IDC predicts monitor shipments will decline at rates of around 2% Y-o-Y from 2018 through 2022, even if Q4 2017 was a better than forecast overall with all regions posting Y-o-Y growth. Full-year 2018 shipments are set to total 116m, with a Y-o-Y decline of -3.6% in Q4 2018 shipments reaching 30.6m. By 2020, global shipments should total less than 112m as adoption of mobile devices at lower price points continues.

More Microsoft Datacentres for Germany?

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Microsoft plans to open two datacentres in Germany at a cost of over €100 million, Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche reports-- despite the relative failure of a previous attempt at offering cloud services for the country.

Microsoft CloudBack in 2015 the company, in order to allay German data security concerns (and comply with strict privacy laws), collaborated with "data trustee" Deutsche Telekom to create Microsoft Cloud Deutschland, a cloud offering with extra-secure ring-fenced data. However the service was not very popular, due to high pricing and a lack of flexibility in lifting and shifting data.

Gartner: 18.4% Integrated Systems Revenue Growth for 2018

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According to Gartner, global integrated systems revenue is to reach $12.3 billion in 2018-- an 18.4% increase over the $10.2bn of 2017, with hyperconverged integrated systems (HCIS) seeing the strongest growth.

Integrated systems combine server, storage and network infrastructure with management software handling the provisioning and management of the combined unit. It derives the benefit of an architectured design and deployment of integrated compute, storage and memory infrastructure.

Gartner infrastructure

"The majority of integrated systems replace existing infrastructure, which is great for cost, agility and consolidation of IT and efficiency metrics," the analyst says. "When implementing this as part of a digital business initiative, however, IT organisations must look at how the potential savings of capital expenditure (capex), may be offset by potential shifts in operating expenditure (opex)."

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