Storage

From fundamental physics to exabytes of global data, storage is one of the defining technologies of IT. With price, performance and practicalities changing daily, we cover all aspects of data retention and management.

Whether it's solid state versus rotating storage, cloud versus local or EMC versus HP, we unpick the fabric of storage and monitor the bits, bytes, directories and clusters of this mainstay of enterprise.

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Jack Clark

EMC bumps VMAX array to 4 petabytes

EMC has released a new family of its flagship VMAX series of storage arrays, which have huge...

21 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Facebook rolls out open-source datacentre hardware

Facebook has made its stripped-down storage and rack designs available to businesses via the Open...

2 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Intel releases 330 SSD range

Intel has started shipping the Intel SSD 330 solid-state drive, which has received a performance...

17 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Red Hat Storage 2.0 gets beta release

Red Hat has released a scale-out software tool for enterprises. The Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta...

11 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Intel and Micron team up on new storage technologies

Intel and Micron have extended their longstanding technology partnership to include emerging...

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Facebook plans open-source storage hardware

Facebook is building its own storage hardware and aims to publish details so other companies can...

24 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Greenbytes lifts curtain on dedupe flash array

Greenbytes is getting ready to release a flash storage array that can handle inline deduplication...

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Iomega sets out small business NAS range

EMC subsidiary Iomega has launched a range of network-attached storage boxes for small and...

17 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

OCZ acquires SANRAD for flash caching technology

Storage specialist OCZ Technology Group is looking to add to its enterprise line by buying and...

10 January, 2012 by Jack Clark
David Meyer

Seagate closes Samsung HDD business buy

Seagate has completed its £890m takeover of Samsung's hard disk drive division, following...

20 December, 2011 by David Meyer
David Meyer

Intel and Micron take 20nm NAND flash up to 128Gb

Intel and Micron have developed a 128Gb NAND flash device that they say will enable a boost in...

8 December, 2011 by David Meyer
David Meyer

Seagate speeds up Momentus XT hybrid drive

Seagate has begun shipping the second generation of its Momentus XT solid-state hybrid drives,...

29 November, 2011 by David Meyer
David Meyer

EC approves Western Digital's Hitachi storage takeover

Western Digital's £2.8bn takeover of Hitachi's storage subsidiary has gained conditional...

25 November, 2011 by David Meyer
manek

New products from Storage Network World 2011

The first day of storage show Storage Network World here in Frankfurt saw a flutter of new...

2 November, 2011 by manek
Rupert Goodwins

EC clears Seagate purchase of Samsung HD divison

The European Commission has finished its deliberation on the proposed acquisition by Seagate...

19 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Latest in Storage

EMC gets 'Mavericks' with Isilon file system

News The next version of OneFS, code named Mavericks, drastically cuts access times as well as adding data protection and recovery features to complement the Isilon storage OS Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

EMC buys XtremIO for flash tech

News The company has bought Israel-based XtremIO, a flash storage architecture firm, for an undisclosed sum Read more

11 May, 2012 by Andrew Nusca
Amazon launches Cloud Drive desktop app

Amazon launches Cloud Drive desktop app

News The company has released a desktop app for its Cloud Drive service, which competes with Microsoft's SkyDrive and the recently launched Google Drive Read more

3 May, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Hitachi: Companies have 'horrible' storage utilisation

News Many companies are not using their storage effectively and could avoid buying new hardware by virtualising and looking at implementing a tiering policy, according to Hitachi Data Systems Read more

2 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Google plugs Drive into Chrome OS

Google plugs Drive into Chrome OS

News The latest developer release of the browser-based Chrome OS features file integration with Google Drive, the web giant's cloud storage offering Read more

30 April, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Google Drive offers 'open' collaboration platform

News The company says its new cloud storage product is an 'open platform', although the only third-party services offering Drive integration come in the form of Chrome web apps Read more

25 April, 2012 by David Meyer

Google Drive: Latest player in the great internet paradox

Comment With Google poised to join the expanding remote storage market, the number of ways to informally distribute content is increasing. At the same time, rights holders are intent on clamping down on content sharing Read more

24 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
EMC pulls in $5bn in first quarter

EMC pulls in $5bn in first quarter

News The storage company saw revenue of $5bn in its first quarter, as it made a confident forecast of market growth Read more

20 April, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Fusion-io exposes flash card innards to developers

News The flash specialist's new SDK has features designed to increase the performance of applications used by social networks and the financial industry Read more

18 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Texas Memory Systems bundles SSDs with hypervisors

News The company has launched a line of products that bundle its solid state hardware with a hypervisor provided by DataCore Software Read more

18 April, 2012 by Andrew Nusca

Start-up rekindles holographic storage dream

News A start-up called hVault has said it is aiming to develop the first commercially available archive systems based on holographic technology Read more

17 April, 2012 by Joe McKendrick

LSI debuts Nytro flash cards for data-heavy apps

News The Nytro family of PCIe-linked flash products aims to boost performance of latency-dependent applications across large and small enterprises, and is likely to show up in storage from IBM, EMC and other major providers Read more

2 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Seven-day wonder: Inside the Promise TV

Seven-day wonder: Inside the Promise TV

Photo Modern consumer products need hardware, software, industrial design and usability. Find out what two designers can do with Promise TV, a set-top box that records seven days of Freeview at once Read more

26 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins 1 comment

Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution

Analysis Proving that small independent teams can produce top-quality consumer design, Ascot-based Promise TV has come up with a clever way to record Freeview. But it faces a familiar barrier: how to sell it? Read more

25 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins 10 comments

Seagate sees hard-drive benefit after Thai floods

News Seagate emerged in first place in the hard-drive market in the last quarter of 2011, having been less affected by the Thai floods than its rivals Read more

1 March, 2012 by Rachel King

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