IBM rolls out Storage Tank
News The software product comes from an IBM research project, code-named Storage Tank, and is officially called IBM TotalStorage SAN File System. Adding to IBM's on-demand computing initiative, Big Blue on Monday plans to announce a 14 November shipping...
[October 13, 2003, 12:50]
IBM plans open-source storage strategy
News To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system.
[December 23, 2002, 7:56]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News The project involves a lot of data, which should allow IBM fertile ground to test Storage Tank, said Jai Menon, an IBM Research Fellow that helped develop the software. On Wednesday, IBM is announcing that it is joining the effort, providing six...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
Space: The final vacation
News The first design, dubbed Geode, would divide a single tank into a multistoried tower, with different floors for living, working, and storage. The basic building block for the Space Island Group's proposed commercial space stations is the main fuel...
[March 21, 2001, 10:32]
MIT spin-off stores sun's energy to power the world
News Also required is a hydrogen storage tank, which is not a big technical or commercial challenge. However, a fully functioning system will take more like eight or 10 years because it requires multiple components, including hydrogen storage, cheaper...
[October 1, 2009, 13:09]
Peter Coffee: Forbodings about Y2K weekend
News Let's estimate, if I may, that the typical driver usually fills up at around three-quarters empty, meaning that the average gas tank is normally three-eighths short of full. If the typical tank holds, say, 16 gallons, then we might have about 100...
[December 30, 1999, 6:05]
Taking on the Office gorilla, online
News But Office is different, if they decided to give away part of it then their stock price would tank. The company offers around 1GB of upgradeable online storage and easy insertion of images through Flickr, the online photo management community owned...
[May 26, 2006, 14:05]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog With the economy in the tank and new user accounts likely to plateau, the ISPs are going to be looking for opportunities to make a little more cash or to buy new equipment upgrades. Users storing data files in on-line storage space is another...
[December 30, 2008, 8:34]
Super-Computer on a desk
Member Review Built like a tank, and functional all at once. Basically, this is a Rev B PMG5, with liquid/radiator cooled dual 2.5 PPC970's (64-bit baby brothers of the IBM Power4 supercomputer chip), uses a 1100MHz system bus, 400MHz memory, and 150MB/s SATA...
[October 26, 2004, 20:45]
