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IBM makes breakthrough, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

IBM researchers have discovered a way to create a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms, which compares to today's magnetic data storage technology requiring about one million atoms for a single bit.
Panasonic, Sony and Samsung front HD storage security initiative

Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung and SanDisk have announced joint plans to develop better security for memory cards, embedded memory and other flash storage devices.
Google sued by BT over patent infringement

BT has filed a civil suit in a Delaware court alleging that some Google products and services including Android, and its search, music, map, and location-based advertising infringe on one or more of six of its patents.
Mystery ?virus? disrupts New Zealand ambulance service

Staff at New Zealand?s St John?s Ambulance service were forced to coordinate emergency call-outs using manual radio systems last week after computers systems were hit by a mystery ?virus?.
Hard drive shortage will reach 28% over the next six months

While flooding in Thailand is affecting hard disk supplies worldwide, the customers most likely to be hit hard by price increases will be consumers in the retail market as manufacturers put enterprises and PC system manufacturers atop their lists.
SandForce buyout won't affect other system makers' SSDs, says LSI

LSI said its planned purchase of flash chip maker SandForce will not affect other equipment makers that use the company's products.
HP claims Memristor memory chips are less than 18 months away

Reinforcing an announcement make more than a year ago, an HP fellow this week proclaimed that his company will have a its Memristor non-volatile memory chip read to challenge NAND flash within 18 months.
Hitachi squeezes one terabyte onto a single hard drive platter

Hitachi today announced that is has achieved yet another milestone by squeezing 1TB capacity onto a single disk.
Samsung shows off optical drive with Wi-Fi connectivity

Samsung has announced its new SE-208BW Smart Media Hub, which is an optical disk drive that comes equipped with Wi-Fi and allows users to stream CDs and DVDs to smartphones, tablets, and computers.
Iomega targets virtual servers with 12 bay rackmount NAS array

EMC's Iomega subsidiary this week announced a new top-of-the-line network storage array, which ratchets up the power and performance.

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The tyranny of terrible tech support

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IBM futuristic storage aims for speed and density

IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.
Mac OS X Lion Server is a downgrade that could see corporate IT switching to Windows

The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade that may prompt a move to Windows Server.
Oracle to continue supporting Lustre

While a number of small companies have been ramping up support for a file system called Lustre that Oracle acquired in its Sun Microsystems purchase earlier this year, Oracle itself has no plans to abandon the technology, a company executive told the IDG News Service in an interview.
The best way to keep your business safe and secure

In the 1995 film "Hackers" the lead character downloads sensitive information to a floppy disk. Today, of course, advances in technology have yielded equally advanced security threats. Consider news reports in the past year about computers compromised by botnets. Businesses face daily threats from these and other cybersecurity dangers that are further enhanced by increased reliance on new business communications and computing tools.
Macbook Air could foretell death of hard drives

Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air - and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks - could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.
Top 5 ways to cut your storage needs

With the economy still shaky and the need for storage exploding, almost every storage vendor claims it can reduce the amount of data you must store. Trimming your data footprint not only cuts costs for hardware, software, power and data centre space, but also eases the strain on networks and backup windows.
A short history of Xerox PARC

Founded in 1970, Xerox PARC - now just PARC - has been home to some of computing's biggest advances, including GUIs, bitmapped displays and Ethernet networking.
Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI: The war continues

In the beginning there was Fibre Channel (FC), and it was good. If you wanted a true SAN - versus shared direct-attached SCSI storage - FC is what you got. But FC was terribly expensive, requiring dedicated switches and host bus adapters, and it was difficult to support in geographically distributed environments. Then, around six or seven years ago, iSCSI hit the SMB market in a big way and slowly began its climb into the enterprise.

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