Daily Archives: January 28, 2017

Toshiba is selling off part of its memory business

Toshiba on Friday officially announced it will sell a portion of its flash memory business, including the SSD business of the Storage & Electronic Device Solutions Division, to a not-yet-named buyer. The company, which invented NAND flash in the early 1980s, announced last week it was exploring spinning off its memory business. A Nikkei’s Asian…

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs — but not for much longer

In 1993, President Bill Clinton was in the first year of his presidency, Windows NT 3.1 and Jurassic Park were both released, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed, and Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, booted up a brand-new Stratus Technologies fault tolerant server. A lot has changed in 24 years, but…