The fast growth of data-centers condition operators to turn to water cooling, as it seems to provide more efficiency than air conditioning, especially when it comes to large-scale server deployments. The idea of using water to cool servers is rather an old one, but it appeals more and more to datacenter operators and server vendors that search for new ways to increase efficiency, at a time marked by rising energy costs and fear of global warming.

As the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications started to build a machine that had more than 200,000 server cores, it also started to seek for a solution to dramatically reduce costs implied by the purchasing of faster silicon chips. The solution proved to be at hand actually: the use of water, the all-natural liquid that reaches into every home.

Three new Gigabit networking solutions are now available from Sonnet. Users of older Macs still running Mac OS X 10.5.2 will be very pleased to hear that the adapters start at $80 and can offer improved data transfer speeds, even when connecting to multiple servers and/or networks, and reduced overhead when transferring large files.

Plextor has just announced an update to its network-attached storage product offering. The two new additions come with a re-engineered unit and interface, and are touted as being the next-generation high performance external storage devices.

The Plextor StorX PX-NAS500L comes with a storage capacity of 500GB, while the higher-end PX-NAS1000L sports 1 TB of space. Despite their large capacity size, the units are mostly pitched at entry-level users who are just making the switch to NAS storage.

This summer is going to be hot, hot and hot! Of course you need to keep your precious CPU and VGA coolers nice and cool during the summer, but how about buying yourself a cool gadget as well? Don’t you want to breathe some fresh and cool air while you are gaming or working hard?

Stay cool this summer with Arctic Cooling’s latest Arctic Breeze, a cool, quiet and portable USB desktop fan offering refreshing breeze in hot, sunny weather!

Samsung India launched a DVD writer, which is claimed to be the industry's fastest writer with 22X recording capability. The new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 is available in the Indian market.

With over-speed recording, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. As lower speed media is more cost-effective, users can save money while burning discs at faster speeds.

HP has developed intelligent memory that can make decisions by analyzing data it has stored in the past.

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