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Samsung begins mass production of 256GB SSDs

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:37:00 GMT

Coming to a laptop near you soon.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics has announced that it has started mass production of 256GB solid-state drives (SSDs), which should start appearing in laptops within the next few months.

USB 3.0 specification sent to vendors

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:24:00 GMT

Makes USB 2.0 look like a chocolate teapot.

A standards group has released specifications for USB 3.0, which greatly boosts the speed at which data can be transferred compared to the current USB 2.0 standard.

Fujitsu to flog super-fast SAS drives

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:01:00 GMT

What 6Gbits/s SCSI looks like.

Fujitsu plans to launch two series of 2.5-inch enterprise hard-disk drives based on the faster 6Gbits/s version of the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface in the first half of 2009, it has announced.

i365 offers faster restore tools

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:32:00 GMT

Seagate company looks to get SMEs back running faster.

And it seems that users are increasingly interested in e-discovery. "It's not just a question of storing the data, it's searching for it too," said Phil Evans, i365's UK country manager.

IT spend set to slow down dramatically

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:09:00 GMT

Recession hits expenditure plans.

IT spending will increase at just half the rate previously predicted according to IDC.

SSDs to use SATA for some time

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:53:00 GMT

NVMHCI interface might not be in Windows 7 either.

Intel's next-generation interface for solid-state drives (SSD) promises to make them faster and last longer, but laptops will continue to use the Serial ATA (SATA) interface in the near-term.

Ancient IBM drive rescues Apollo moon data

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:38:00 GMT

One giant spool for a tape drive...

Valuable mission data gathered by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon forty years ago looks like it may be recovered thanks to a donation of an ancient IBM tape drive by a Sydney computer society.

EMC switches on Cloud 2.0 storage

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:22:00 GMT

'Atmos' system spans Petabytes.

EMC has announced its long-awaited cloud storage offering, a combination of hardware and software that promises to help businesses build and deliver Internet-based applications on a massive scale.

New Adaptec cards speed SSDs

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:24:00 GMT

Architecture benefits emerging technology.

Adaptec is targeting pure storage connectivity with a pair of Unified Serial adapter cards, which it said are also designed to get the most out of solid-state disks (SSDs).

Seagate in full-disk encryption push

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Momentus FDE drives now in Dell laptops.

Seagate has launched a major push to increase the uptake of its Full Disk Encryption (FDE) laptop and PC drives, with higher capacities, competitive prices, and a partnership with Dell.

Seagate in full-disk encryption drive

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Momentus FDE drives now in Dell laptops.

Seagate has launched a major push to increase the uptake of its Full Disk Encryption (FDE) laptop and PC drives, with higher capacities, competitive prices, and a partnership with Dell.

Sun targets rivals with SSD-based storage

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:14:00 GMT

But analyst questions line-up.

What Sun lacks in size as a storage vendor it is trying to make up for with innovation, as it rolls out a series of appliances that include management software and solid-state disks.

New SSDs will boost speed says SanDisk

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Performance could improve 100-fold

SanDisk has announced a new flash memory management system that it claimed would dramatically improve two of the main weaknesses today in the emerging technology of solid-state drives (SSDs).

Dell to offer de-duplication products

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:21:00 GMT

Company embraces Quantum kit.

Dell is to enter the data de-duplication business next year with products based on Quantum's software and compatible with EMC.

Startup offers a path to private cloud

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:47:00 GMT

ParaScale claims to cut the cost of storage.

Cloud storage startup ParaScale is offering new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a self-healing private cloud of storage.

Brocade and Foundry cut merger price

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:25:00 GMT

Economic downturn plays havoc with deal

Brocade and Foundry have agreed to amend their July merger agreement to reduce the price Brocade will pay for the network equipment company.

European businesses face compliance headache

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:27:00 GMT

And email promises biggest headache of all.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has warned European businesses that compliance is about to become as much of an issue for them, as it already is for their US counterparts.

EMC adds server configuration tools to portfolio

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:14:00 GMT

Stamping on HP and BMC's toes?

EMC has moved beyond its usual enterprise storage play with the news that it has launched a couple of software tools designed to manage the configuration and compliance of servers.

Quantum enhances Vision's de-dupe capabilities

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:53:00 GMT

Product name gets downsized.

Quantum has rebranded its storage management software, and at the same boosted its de-duplication capabilities, the company has announced. It has also added a low-end 9TB version of its DXi7500 enterprise disk backup device.

Companies fail to encrypt backup tapes

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:52:00 GMT

A spoolfull of trouble, says Thales.

Enterprises are failing to encrypt tape backups of critical data even as they make plans to secure the primary data, a new survey has found.

Boffins demo data stored in atom nucleus

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:17:00 GMT

A brief glimpse of the future

It might be some way off but computers users in the future could take data off a disk drive and move it into the nucleus of an atom.

Plasmon reborn with simplified archiving offering

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:23:00 GMT

No more 'distractions'.

New life has been breathed into Plasmon, after the company confirmed that it has successfully completed a private equity buyout that should secure the archiving side of the business.

Data centre rethink needed, warns analyst

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

Let's be more dynamic.

IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centres in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.

Data centre rethink needed warns analyst

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:14:00 GMT

Let's think dynamic.

IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centres in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.

Mimosa teams up with Hitachi on complete archiving system

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:45:00 GMT

NearPoint claimed to offer enhanced performance.

Hitachi has teamed up with Mimosa Systems to offer a way to archive Microsoft Exchange without draining CPU resources.