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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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Fujitsu to launch 1.8-inch HDD in mid-2007 Fujitsu will launch its first 1.8-inch hard-disk drive in the middle of next year, a company engineer said at the Computex trade show Tuesday. June 6, 7:35 a.m. PDT EMC holds onto lead in disk storage The disk storage market grew at a healthy clip in the first quarter, showing the increasing importance that businesses attach to storing their data, according to new research Friday from IDC. June 2, 6:05 a.m. PDT Samsung hybrid flash-disk drive to boost laptop performance Samsung Electronics plans to unveil next week a prototype hard-disk drive that can improve system performance and extend battery life on laptops, the company said Wednesday. May 17, 5:15 p.m. PDT Hitachi launches its first perpendicular HDDs Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) will soon begin selling its first hard-disk drives based on perpendicular recording technology, the company said Monday. May 15, 5:58 p.m. PDT Symantec sorting out Veritas mega-merger Nearly a year after Symantec’s $13.5 billion merger with Veritas Software, customers of both companies got a view of the new face of Symantec at the company’s Vision 2006 user conference last week in San Francisco. ![]() May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetApp adds high compression to VTL products Network storage products vendor Network Appliance (NetApp) plans to add high-performance, hardware-based data compression in about a year to its virtual tape library (VTL) products, a company executive said Wednesday. April 27, 7:54 a.m. PDT Storge sales drive EMC revenue up EMC Corp. said Thursday that strong sales of its Symmetrix storage and content management and virtualization software boosted first-quarter revenue by 14 percent from the same period in 2005, but that profits were hit by stock-option expenses. April 20, 10:17 a.m. PDT Iomega lightens the autoloader For small businesses that have depended on the ease of use of Iomega’s 35GB REV removable hard disk drive but are outgrowing that solution, the new REV Loader 280 offers larger capacity at an affordable price. ![]() April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Top six steps toward disaster-recovery I recently got to write a fun piece for InfoWorld called "Stupid user tricks" about protecting your network from human error. Researching the article revealed to me how many variables folks tend to miss when running a network, as well as when planning to protect and recover that network. (By the way, if you were one of the folks who submitted anecdotes for this article, check out the SMB IT blog to see whether you’re on the list for a free InfoWorld backpack.) ![]() April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC adds services to manage storage flow EMC Corp. said Wednesday that it is extending its professional services arm with on-site support in managing the flow, usage and storage of data in the enterprise. April 12, 9:23 a.m. PDT NEC, EMC to jointly develop storage products NEC and EMC will work together to jointly develop storage products and enterprise content management systems, they announced Wednesday. April 5, 4:03 a.m. PDT Fujitsu plans 200GB laptop drive for Q3 Fujitsu expects to begin shipping a 200GB hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday. March 27, 4:20 a.m. PST Blu-ray backer LG preparing HD-DVD drive LG Electronics Inc., one of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, has started working on a player for the rival HD-DVD format, the company said at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Friday. March 10, 7:50 a.m. PST NEC demonstrates HD-DVD R burning NEC Corp. is demonstrating at the Cebit trade show in Germany this week a recently developed optical disc drive that can write to HD-DVD discs. March 10, 6:09 a.m. PST Optical and tape drives duel for archiving dominance Is anyone surprised that vendors are coming up with new backup solutions for the SMEs (small-medium enterprises)? I'm not, considering the growing opportunity for smaller storage systems -- but don't think for a minute that large enterprise customers have been forgotten in the mad rush to impress SMEs. ![]() March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Fujitsu 2.5-inch HDD shipments continue to rise Fujitsu's shipments of mobile-class hard-disk drives for notebook computers and other products rose during the last three months of 2005, making it the 14th consecutive quarter of growth for the product line, Fujitsu said Tuesday. February 21, 4:31 a.m. PST Seagate plans 12GB cellphone drive in Q3 Seagate Technology will begin shipping a higher capacity version of its hard-disk drive for cell phones in the third quarter of this year, the company said Monday, as the 3GSM exhibition opened in Barcelona. February 13, 4:20 a.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST Japanese firm pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) manufacturer Elpida Memory Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$84 million fine for participating in an "international conspiracy" to fix DRAM prices, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday. January 30, 10:50 a.m. PST Put your storage backups on a diet What are the odds that two rival data-protection companies would release new products just days apart? Very slim, in my view, but that's just what Avamar and Data Domain, two successful promoters of data-reduction technology, did earlier this month. ![]() January 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Product previews Clearwell extracts intelligence from e-mail Clearwell Systems this week is launching its company and its first product, an e-mail analysis platform designed to organize data in e-mail and automate regulatory compliance investigations and legal discovery processes. Going beyond e-mail archiving, the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform analyzes the unique properties of e-mail, combines the analysis with organizational data, and applies linguistic and statistical analysis algorithms to extract intelligence from e-mail messages and attachments. The product serves up the data in personalized dashboards and features a visual display of discussion threads and e-mail-specific search. Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform, Clearwell Systems ![]() January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Lasso Logic offers real easy real-time backups Backing up user workstations is a problem that has plagued IT organizations since computers landed on the desktop. Installing and operating desktop backup solutions has always been somewhat complicated and quirky. Even when desktop backup works well, it doesn’t provide full protection. You’re covered against major disasters, such as losing the computer to theft or crash, but not against minor disasters, such as accidentally deleting files or saving unwanted changes, which can erase several days of work. ![]() January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage vendors move beyond blocks and LUNs No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as important developments in disks, tapes, and switches. ![]() January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC closes acquisition of Captiva EMC Corp. has completed its purchase of document capture software vendor Captiva, the storage giant announced Friday. Captiva stockholders gave the deal their seal of approval on Dec. 23. December 30, 11:45 a.m. PST Pioneer to launch Blu-ray Disc drive in January Pioneer Corp. plans to unveil at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) its first Blu-ray Disc format optical disc drive for personal computers, it said Tuesday. The drive will be go on sale in Japan at the end of January pending the completion of two licensing issues, the company said. December 26, 9:42 p.m. PST Seagate to buy Maxtor for $1.9 billion in stock Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC will acquire Maxtor Corp. in an all-stock transaction worth around US$1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday. December 21, 2:41 a.m. PST No. 11: Keeping your cool It might seem obvious, but environmental problems in server rooms and wiring closets can have a deleterious affect on overall network performance. Hot servers aren’t happy servers, and the same goes for network hardware. Make sure your datacenter isn’t making the mercury sing, and install environmental sensors to keep it that way. ![]() November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Product Previews RSA Security Expands SSO RSA security next month will release RSA sign-on Manager 4.5, a new version of its enterprise SSO (single sign-on) software that features expanded integration with RSA’s two-factor authentication tool, RSA SecurID. This feature allows SSO access to enterprise apps and network resources protected by the RSA SecurID technology. Other features in RSA Sign-On Manager 4.5 include self-service emergency access for users who forget passwords or other authentication methods, and an integrated desktop client that combines SSO, emergency access, and strong authentication for Windows desktops and networks. RSA Sign-On Manager 4.5, RSA Security ![]() October 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT IDC: Global disk storage market reached $5.6B in Q2 The total worldwide disk storage systems market grew 9.9 percent to US$5.6 billion in factory revenue in the second quarter of this year as compared to the year-ago quarter, according to an IDC analyst. The growth was the highest year-on-year growth over the last eight quarters, the analyst said in a report released Friday. Total disk storage systems petabytes grew 59.3 percent year over year to reach 457 petabytes in the second quarter. September 2, 7:58 a.m. PDT Samsung pushing DDR2 into PC mainstream Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday that the global shift to a speedier computer memory chip, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation), is accelerating, and that the chips finally account for the majority of its factory output of DRAM (dynamic-RAM). August 11, 2:26 a.m. PDT Q&A: EMC's Joe Tucci NEW YORK - EMC's head honcho says that customers are clamoring for the company to do more on the security front and is trying to address those concerns with a mixture of current in-house technologies, partnerships and acquisitions. He doesn't believe the market is ready for storage virtualization yet. August 4, 12:19 p.m. PDT Zetera: Storage at the speed of light Once you’ve been on the teams that invented the drive controller standards used by billions of machines, it’s a tough achievement to top. So when Bill Babbitt, Bill Frank, and Tom Ludwig of Zetera created a new network storage paradigm, they simply got rid of controllers altogether. ![]() August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft preps disk-based backup offering Fueling the growing interest in disk-based backup solutions, Microsoft plans to officially release its System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) this fall. ![]() July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization, regulations to keep disk storage strong The disk storage systems market is set for continued steady growth over the next four years, according to a report market research company IDC released Thursday. The growth will be fueled by the need to store information to comply with global regulations, the availability of inexpensive, easy to manage tiered storage products, and the emergence of new technologies such as storage virtualization. July 8, 9:22 a.m. PDT Microsoft readies disk-based recovery system Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) will be ready for prime time in the third quarter, the vendor is expected to announce Friday. July 8, 6:21 a.m. PDT Hard-disk drive makers show latest products Some of the industry's largest hard-disk drive makers showed off their latest products and prototypes at the Computex show in Taipei last week. June 5, 8:24 p.m. PDT Exclusive: Data Domain DD460 Restorer puts the squeeze on data With the advent of inexpensive disk-to-disk backup systems that offer faster, easier, and more reliable backups and restores than most tape systems, many administrators would like to abandon tape altogether. However, a standard schedule of one full backup per week plus nightly incremental backups uses up a lot of storage space, the kind of space that only tape traditionally offers at a reasonable per-gigabyte cost. ![]() May 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Peering into the Big Blue haze As Lenovo completes its acquisition of IBM’s PC division, I’m set to squirt a few more tears for lost future generations of ThinkPad excellence. Rumor has it, however, that there’s still at least one generation of Big Blue-manufactured Thinkies on the way, and among these we may even find a tablet. Yowza! ![]() May 5, 5:00 a.m. PDT Iomega adds new backup drives Article Body: ![]() March 29, 3:11 p.m. PST Apple joins Blu-ray consortium TOKYO - Apple Computer has joined the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), adding further industry support for the high-capacity optical disc standard, the association announced Wednesday at Cebit. March 10, 9:28 a.m. PST Hitachi moves into data storage outsourcing Japanese electronics giant Hitachi, which acquired IBM's disk drive manufacturing arm more than two years ago, is now quietly expanding into the business of providing storage services for multinational companies. March 8, 7:57 a.m. PST EMC overtakes HP in disk-based storage market EMC overtook Hewlett-Packard to become the top seller of external disk-based storage systems in 2004, according to IDC research released Friday. March 4, 4:37 a.m. PST EMC, Cisco join forces for backup EMC and Cisco on Monday announced they are working together on an end-to-end storage consolidation solution for remote offices and long-distance data. ![]() January 10, 12:41 p.m. PST Optware attempts to standardize holographic storage Optware will have specifications for its holographic storage technology approved by an international standards body in 2006, making it the first company to attempt to create an industry standard for holographic storage, the company's president said in an interview on Jan. 5. January 5, 4:56 a.m. PST InPhase plans holographic storage device for 2006 InPhase Technologies is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry holographic drive, which the company expects to begin shipping next year. The drive will be demonstrated at the 2005 Storage Visions conference, being held in Las Vegas this week. January 5, 4:41 a.m. PST NEC develops CD, DVD, HD-DVD drive prototype KAWASAKI, JAPAN - Engineers at NEC have developed a prototype optical disc drive that supports the new HD-DVD format and is also compatible with CD and DVD formats, they said Wednesday. December 15, 4:32 p.m. PST Update: Four Infineon executives jailed for DRAM price-fixing Four executives at German memory vendor Infineon Technologies and its U.S. subsidiary have pled guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. December 3, 4:38 a.m. PST ADIC combines disk, tape in new storage appliance Advanced Digital Information (ADIC) has announced a mid-level storage system that combines disk and tape in a single appliance, the Pathlight VX 2.0. ![]() November 16, 9:37 a.m. PST UDO replacing MO faster than expected, says Plasmon Sales of UDO (Ultra Density Optical) discs and drives are going well and the format is replacing MO (Magneto Optical) technology faster than expected, the president of technology developer Plasmon Inc. said in a recent interview. October 13, 12:56 a.m. PDT Storage Decisions show parades new products IT managers may need more storage to handle all the storage announcements that occurred at this week's Storage Decisions show in Chicago as well as several other independent announcements. ![]() September 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Microsoft adds disk backup support Microsoft jumped into the disk-based backup and recovery market Monday with the announcement of the Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS), a low-cost, continuous, disk-based backup and recovery system. More than 20 storage industry partners announced support for the new software-based product, which is scheduled for release in the second quarter of next year. ![]() September 20, 1:29 p.m. PDT Cisco, Veritas roll out storage products IT managers may need more storage to handle all the storage announcements occurring this week at the Storage Decisions show in Chicago. ![]() September 20, 6:10 a.m. PDT Hitachi to release 100GB hard drives for notebooks Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) announced the availability of 2.5-inch hard drives with capacities up to 100GB for notebook computers by the end of 2004, the company said on Tuesday. September 15, 4:39 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Storage hardware > Storage > Backup and recovery > Storage > Storage hardware > Storage |
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