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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science. HP offers data backup system for legal discovery Hewlett-Packard, which had some well publicized legal troubles of its own not long ago, has unveiled a data backup system to help other companies when they are hit with a lawsuit or regulatory audit. September 27, 7:25 a.m. PDT Fifteen backup programs to safeguard your data There's no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn't backed up, it's gone -- or it will require an extremely expensive, not-certain-to-succeed recovery operation. September 25, 9:30 a.m. PDT Security outsourcing on the rise As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way.  September 20, 2:30 p.m. PDT Sony shows off unique Rolly audio entertainment player Now you don't have to dance to your favorite tunes -- your audio player can dance for you. September 10, 5:17 a.m. PDT Best of open source in storage Combining “open source” and "storage” in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT FBI: Enterprises need counterintelligence The Chinese government has denied involvement in a series of hacks carried out against IT systems at the Pentagon in June this week, but the threat of technology-driven espionage has forced the FBI to push businesses and academic institutions to better prepare for such attacks. September 4, 3:45 p.m. PDT Toshiba readies 320GB laptop drive Toshiba will start producing a 320GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers before the end of this year, the company said Tuesday. August 21, 5:09 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Apps security to dominate Black Hat Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT SF power outage: A lesson in backup power The Web hosting company The Planet.com Internet Services tests its backup generators monthly and some employees ask if that's really necessary, said manager Urvish Vashi. The blackout in San Francisco Tuesday explains why. July 26, 4:13 a.m. PDT IBM's India lab develops disaster management tool IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. July 20, 4:49 a.m. PDT The SMB backup dilemma Every time I hear a pitch for an SMB backup solution it comes complete with a chilling statistic that suggests smaller companies are tone-deaf to data protection. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB). July 10, 7:40 a.m. PDT Lasers could make disk drives a hundred times faster Researchers have demonstrated disk write speeds one hundred times faster than current hard drives. The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. There is no equivalent read speed increase though. July 5, 7:47 a.m. PDT Autonomy buys e-discovery firm Zantaz Autonomy Corp. is acquiring Zantaz, a provider of e-discovery and content archiving software, for $375 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. July 3, 9:05 a.m. PDT Quantum's new appliance could attract OEMs Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors. June 25, 11:44 a.m. PDT Mtron claims speediest solid-state disk Solid-state disks (SSDs) are fast becoming popular as drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives but they are not all alike, said South Korea's Mtron. June 20, 5:24 a.m. PDT Suit up your storage network with business sense No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP FORUM - Virtual computing can be a real hassle For a technology that's supposed to make computing easier, virtualization is becoming quite complicated. June 16, 12:19 p.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Solid-state disks coming on strong If you're in any doubt that flash memory-based solid-state disks are on a course to quickly replace hard-disk drives in laptop computers, just take a look along the aisles of this year's Computex trade show. June 7, 4:57 a.m. PDT HP, IBM fight to 2nd place tie in storage If the competition between IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the computer storage business were a horse race, you'd need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon. June 7, 4:21 a.m. PDT NHK pushes optical disc speed limit It's an interesting contrast: consumers are fast ditching videotape for DVDs and hard disks, but the people who make TV shows are sticking to tape for some cutting edge applications. When it comes to recording broadcast-quality HDTV, today's optical disc systems just can't spin fast enough to keep up with the video -- but that may be about to change. May 29, 5:32 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT IBM pitches risk management strategy IBM unveiled a new IT governance and risk management strategy on May 15 that it will market to enterprise customers as a means to weave together security and compliance projects to ease planning and help drive down related expenses. May 15, 12:42 p.m. PDT Infrastructure security powers up He may not have known it at the time, but Lonnie Charles Denison helped prove the need for tighter security at many infrastructure businesses when he launched a multifaceted attack against California Independent System Operator, a quasi-governmental agency responsible for management of the state's power grid. May 9, 4:17 a.m. PDT Making sense of Websense's SurfControl buyout Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers. May 1, 11:27 a.m. PDT Microsoft eyes datacenters in a box Fast, cheap and all over the place. That's how technology experts behind Microsoft's fast-growing Live offerings envision the future of the enterprise data center in a Web 2.0 driven world. April 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT No warm fuzzies for iSCSI? Lately, it seems like it's all about disk space. They're no longer file servers but document repositories with multiple versions of single documents saved ad infinitum -- just in case of a finger-pointing fest. Not so much the trouble with Word files, but your average PowerPoint file is now over 20MB, easy. Five or six versions of each of those multiplied by dozens of sales people and hundreds of target customers, and suddenly, you're talking real space. To say nothing of photo albums, corporate podcast libraries, online training videos, and gigabytes and gigabytes of e-mail. Hell, my home-movie collection just topped 150GB. April 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec takes initial step into SaaS Symantec took its initial step into the software-as-a-service market on April 17, introducing its maiden set of hosted applications for small and medium-sized businesses. April 17, 4:00 a.m. PDT EMC taps users to expedite e-discovery Seeking to improve enterprise governance of e-mail and file archiving systems, EMC today announced upgrades to its EmailXtender e-mail management and DiskXtender file archiving products. April 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Samsung to double capacity of solid state disk drive Samsung Electronics plans to begin shipping a solid-state disk drive with double the capacity of its current highest capacity drive in the second quarter of this year, it said Tuesday. March 27, 6:03 a.m. PST Hitachi to slash workforce, close HDD plant in Mexico Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to close a manufacturing plant in Mexico and lay off around 11 percent of its 40,000-person global workforce in a bid to shore up its hard disc drive (HDD) operations. March 22, 4:28 a.m. PST IBM, Cisco release crisis response service IBM and Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a new one-stop service designed to help businesses and government agencies respond to and recover from disasters, the companies said. March 20, 4:14 a.m. PST Raidon offers small RAID module for the masses Taiwan's Raidon Technology has developed a small RAID (redundant array of independent, or inexpensive, disks) module that fits neatly into a 3.5-inch drive bay. March 19, 4:28 a.m. PST All-in-one backup for SMBs Choosing a proper backup solution can be a challenging task for a small business that may lack the time and skill to implement a winning mix of backup application, tape device, and intermediate disk layer. If ever there were a niche that cried out for an appliance-based solution, this is it. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Improve availability of enterprise data Ask an expert about data availability and how to ensure it, and the conversation quickly turns to the subject of human error. Not that IT mistakes are the leading cause of unplanned downtime; the research firm Gartner identifies software failures as the chief culprit, and “operator error” as the second most common cause, ahead of hardware outages; building or site disasters; and metro disasters, such as storms or floods, in that order. But of all of these major causes, human error is the one that IT can really do something about. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Crisis management 101 I recently participated in some war-game-style what-if exercises with a small group of IT execs. The goal was to stimulate thinking about how corporations can best prepare for, and respond to, significant business disruptions, whether from terrorism, weather, biological threats, or other unexpected shocks. March 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Palm brings its Treo to China Palm announced Wednesday that it would launch its Treo 680 handheld in China, and increase its presence in the Chinese market by opening a research and development (R&D) center there. March 7, 8:12 a.m. PST Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive Samsung Electronics has begun shipping its first hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory, it said Wednesday. March 7, 4:39 a.m. PST HP launches SMB storage products Competing with Dell Inc. for small business users who need to back up their data, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a low-priced, disk-based backup and recovery system on Monday. February 26, 1:49 p.m. PST Fujitsu Siemens targets SMBs with new recovery system For midsize businesses seeking a relatively easy, inexpensive way to keep their servers running around the clock, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched a fully automated backup recovery system. February 22, 6:52 a.m. PST Hurd pressures HP storage sales team Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's assessment of his company's storage sales organization was simple and blunt: "We just don't cover enough accounts," said Hurd on a conference call with analysts Tuesday discussing HP's latest quarterly earnings. February 22, 4:39 a.m. PST Crypto Expert: Moore's Law fuels app obesity epidemic Cryptography is no mean field. After all, the science was invented by humans for the purpose of concealing information from other humans. That means that the best cryptographers have to be blindingly smart, with a mastery of mathematics but also a firm grasp of human psychology and, these days, fields such as computer science. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Breaking the addiction to large storage vendors Covering storage sometimes reminds me of browsing the Internet: Occasionally you may reach an apparent dead-end, but you are always far from having walked into every corner. February 16, 3:00 a.m. PST SAN and NAS virtualization After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST IT should prepare for a crisis The former Soviet Republic of Georgia revealed last week it had foiled an effort by a Russian man to sell 3.5 ounces of weapons-grade uranium on the black market. While not enough material to build a bomb, the incident was a strong reminder that we’ve been living in a relatively stable period, crisis-wise, since hurricane Katrina -- and that we shouldn’t get lulled us into false complacency. Yes, the stock market has been doing well. Oil prices have fallen. And Jennifer Aniston did recover nicely from her breakup with Brad … But nonetheless, we need to be on guard against potentially disruptive events. February 1, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC reports strong Q4, full-year results EMC reported record revenue for its fourth quarter on Tuesday, propelled by strong growth in its RSA Security division and VMware subsidiary. January 23, 8:39 a.m. PST When will companies stop producing awful software? Many years ago I had a job working for “Acme Codeworks,” a small mainframe software vendor. One day my boss asked me to evaluate a backup app as a candidate for acquisition. I installed it, and the mainframe promptly crashed. Off to the computer room I went, where my colleagues and I spent several hours bringing the system back up. (This fact should provide an approximate date for this story; these days, if an OS crashes, it usually restarts itself while you’re waiting for the elevator.) January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Cleversafe dreams of distributed mass storage service Cleversafe is one of the few enterprise storage technologies that began life as an open source project, but that's not the only thing that makes the company unusual. The organizations interested in Cleversafe's open source storage software aren't dealing with mere gigabytes of data -- they're storing terabytes, petabytes, or even more. According to CEO Chris Gladwin, Cleversafe's long-term goal is nothing less than to store all of the world's data. And with an aim that lofty, he says, open source is the only way to go. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Drive makers race to be first with 1TB drives Two of the biggest hard-disk drive makers, Seagate Technology and Hitachi Global Storage Technology, both said Thursday that they plan to have drives on the market with the first half of this year that are capable of holding a terabyte (1,000GB) of data. January 5, 4:46 a.m. PST Seagate: 1TB drive by June Seagate Technology is planning to begin shipping a hard-disk drive with a 1T-byte storage capacity sometime during the first half of 2007, it said Thursday. January 4, 4:35 p.m. PST Disk-makers join to push flash-embedded drives The five largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives will work together to promote a new technology that promises to improve system performance, the companies said Thursday. January 4, 6:03 a.m. PST Seagate buys backup services company Hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC will buy EVault Inc. for US$185 million in an acquisition designed to bolster Seagate's managed services business, the company said on Thursday. December 21, 4:09 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST China readies DVD rival format Electronics manufacturers in China may be gearing up for another attempt to establish a proprietary optical disc format, although some analysts said such a move is unlikely to succeed. December 15, 3:48 a.m. PST Backup Software: Bah, Humbug There is no better computer security defense than having a known, good, safe data backup, right? Then why is nearly all backup software so complex and buggy? Why do backup drives frequently fail? Why do backup tapes fail so often? December 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Fujitsu claims first 300GB SATA 2.5-inch drive Fujitsu has developed a hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop PCs and video recorders with a capacity of 300GB, the largest in its class, the company said Tuesday. December 12, 4:47 a.m. PST Dell, Microsoft collaborate on storage tech Dell and Microsoft rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors. December 6, 5:52 a.m. PST HP's third quarter storage numbers drop Major storage vendors reported double-digit sales growth in the third quarter with the exception of Hewlett-Packard Co., which suffered a double-digit decline. December 5, 12:40 p.m. PST Toshiba develops 100GB 1.8-inch HDD Higher capacity laptop computers and music players could be on the way thanks to a new hard-disk drive from Toshiba that manages a 25 percent jump in storage space over current models. December 5, 4:59 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Spectra gets backup encryption right Earlier this year, Spectra Logic became the first vendor to offer tape libraries with hardware encryption. After reviewing a Spectra T120 with LTO3 (Linear Tape-Open 3) drives and hardware encryption, I am more than pleased with the features of this remarkable midtier tape library. Encryption isn’t a data security panacea, but if one of your backup media goes AWOL, you may sleep a little better knowing that its contents were encrypted. November 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft and Novell pull a SCO When I have to declare, as I do this week, that everything I write in my column and blogs is my personal opinion, you know I’m on the warpath. November 22, 3:00 a.m. PST WysDM offers a smart way to manage backup applications Large enterprises, with dozens or hundreds of servers and hundreds or thousands of workstations may have many different backup products in operation. Realistically, it’s not feasible to monitor each separate app to ensure backups are completing properly, in the allotted time, and that the finished backup is the expected size. November 9, 3:00 a.m. PST NetApp offers $160M for storage software firm Storage vendor Network Appliance (NetApp) is planning to acquire a California firm to add to its portfolio of storage system management software. November 8, 8:33 a.m. PST EMC to buy Avamar for $165 million EMC has bolstered its range of products that back up customers' data on disk instead of tape, announcing Wednesday that it will pay $165 million to acquire Avamar Technologies. November 1, 9:14 a.m. PST Symantec rolls out support for Vista In the next few weeks, Symantec will roll out products aimed at early adopters of the Windows Vista OS and 64-bit computing, while also expanding the capabilities of its backup software. November 1, 8:59 a.m. PST Hitachi maps out 2.5-inch hard disk roadmap Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) is planning capacity increases for its 2.5-inch hard-disk drives over the next 12 months, the company said Wednesday. November 1, 7:08 a.m. PST IBM fattens tape capacity to 700GB IBM has made a pair of tape storage product improvements, including the introduction of a tape cartridge that holds 700GB of data. November 1, 4:29 a.m. PST Seagate tries again with encrypted drive Beginning early next year, Seagate Technology LLC will begin shipping its first widely available hard drives with built-in encryption. October 30, 4:09 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST SMEs, say farewell to DAS Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a group of folks from a major storage vendor. They had requested a briefing to discuss how to improve their infrastructure to better support product reviews. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hitachi Maxell develops wafer-thin storage disc Hitachi Maxell has developed a thin optical disc that could lead to data cartridges capable of storing terabytes of information. October 4, 4:15 a.m. PDT Say hello to AMANDA, a new open source storage app Perhaps the proprietary nature of most storage hardware is to blame, but we don't often see open source and storage in the same sentence. That's unfortunate, because bringing the low acquisition cost of open source applications to, say, storage management would be a welcome change for many companies. September 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases beta of file-server backup In a continuing bid to capture some of the tape-backup market, Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the upgrade to its file-and-application server recovery software, which includes support for a wider range of the company's server products. September 27, 9:05 a.m. PDT Signiant offers remote office data solution A Massachusetts vendor has addressed the problem of tape data backup in remote offices by removing tape from the enterprise entirely. September 26, 1:21 p.m. PDT The hard disk drive turns 50 Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for "Lost in Space." September 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT EMC-HP storage race heats up Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." September 1, 4:55 a.m. PDT Fujitsu plans higher capacity 2.5-inch drives Fujitsu will soon bring the benefits of perpendicular recording technology to its family of 2.5-inch hard-disk drives. August 30, 6:34 a.m. PDT IBM 'Turbo' storage products target EMC If turbocharging makes cars faster, IBM believes turbocharging its storage products will help it pass rival EMC. August 22, 4:19 a.m. PDT SonicWall combines automatic data archiving with off-site backup option We all know that we should back up our priceless data, but we always seem to forget just how valuable that data is until the next crash or stolen laptop. Another sticking point is that although off-site storage has become the de facto standard recommendation for most auditing agencies, the price of that personal salt mine for off-site media storage just hasn’t gotten any cheaper. August 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Xiotech hones compliance focus Xiotech probably isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think of storage vendors, but the company is the tenth-largest vendor of networked storage, according to IDC's statistics for 2005. Even so, those revenue numbers tell only part of the story of this rather uncommon storage vendor. For example, the ranking doesn't show that Xiotech was one of the first vendors to promote storage virtualization in its products, at a time when that topic drew either a blank stare or a sneer of denial from most competitors. August 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Back up, digitally What do computer and auto safety measures have in common? The need for proper backup! Luckily, there are more slick data backup options than ever before, as Apricorn Inc.'s high-capacity Aegis Mini hard drive proves. And nowadays, digital "backup" is not relegated to PCs: Backing up a car safely to avoid crashes is also important, and Roadmaster USA Corp.'s Roadmaster Wireless VR3 Backup Camera delivers images from a car's rear to a screen on a dashboard to make reversing safe. Also in the mix is Logitech Inc.'s Wireless DJ Music System, which wirelessly transfers music from a PC to stereo speakers. August 10, 4:23 p.m. PDT IBM launches entry-level storage system IBM launched an entry-level storage product Tuesday to compete with Hewlett-Packard and EMC for customers in the small and medium business (SMB) sector. August 8, 9:28 a.m. PDT In case of emergency, activate business continuity plan Gemstar-TV Guide International hired Ed Sullivan to direct Business Continuity Services in 2003, soon after an audit found that TV Guide’s infrastructure was essentially unrecoverable in the event of a sustained crisis. There was a time when Sullivan’s first stop for addressing the issue would have been IT and the datacenter. But times have changed -- Sullivan first conducted several weeks of meetings with senior executives and various business unit executives to talk about the company’s business processes. “The fact that I work for the CIO is almost irrelevant,” Sullivan says. “I’m there to provide recovery for the business units.” August 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT CA gains new CFO Troubled software vendor CA Inc. announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO) Friday, while declining to comment on rumors of potential layoffs. July 28, 10:42 a.m. PDT Small businesses get big storage attention How is summer treating you? I'll assume well, unless of course you are in one of those areas affected by power outages caused by heat waves, hurricanes, or other calamities like Dennis Kennedy, blogger emeritus and one of the few lawyers I like. Kennedy has been without power for days in St. Louis but finally found a way to update his blog over the weekend. Hang in there, Dennis! July 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM aims continuous data backup software at SMBs IBM has partnered with an e-commerce services company to sell its continuous data protection software to consumers and smaller businesses. July 21, 8:38 a.m. PDT Datacenters respond to record power demand The heat wave that this week pushed energy demand to record-setting levels and caused brownouts and scattered outages in some regions also put datacenter managers on guard for problems and re-emphasized the need for strategies to deal with datacenter heat issues. July 21, 8:34 a.m. PDT The time is now for Blu-ray's high-capacity storage This week Sony launched its first Blu-ray recording device for the masses, the Sony BWU-100A, a standard 5.25-inch, half-height internal box with a parallel ATA connection that writes and reads a variety of media types, including all DVD and CD formats. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT BenQ to launch Blu-ray Disc writer in August BenQ plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc writer at the end of August, one of the first companies to release such a device. July 5, 7:38 a.m. PDT RSA confirms acquisition rumors RSA Security confirmed published rumors that it is in discussions to be acquired, but declined to reveal the companies with which it is negotiating. June 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cedars-Sinai cures storage ills with clustered NAS If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is the director of proteomics for the research division of the hospital. The solution Cedars-Sinai chose was clustered NAS. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT When plain NAS beats clustering If clustered NAS is the way to go, why do traditional NAS systems still account for the majority of deployments? June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Storage |
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