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Old hard drives still full of sensitive data Hard drives full of confidential data are still turning up on the second-hand market, researchers have reported. Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk.  September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT FTC seeks more data on Intel flash spinoff U.S. government antitrust regulators have asked Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV to provide more information about their plan to spin off their flash memory unit into a new company, the vendors said Thursday. August 30, 8:30 a.m. PDT Hitachi and Seagate take one giant leap with laptop drive encryption Now that the capacities of small form-factor drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users the opportunity to work outside the office on projects with large data footprints. But it also can expose your company to liability if a storage device holding classified data falls into the wrong hands. August 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT IFA: Battle over high-def formats comes to Berlin Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. August 28, 6:03 a.m. PDT Update: Seagate planning flash-based solid-state drives Seagate Technology plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products sometime in 2008, the company said Thursday. August 23, 4:23 a.m. PDT Intel brings datacenter advances to server networks Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization. July 23, 12:40 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 Samsung begins producing 1.8-inch SSDs Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications. June 25, 4:09 a.m. PDT Taking RAID out of the box A reader that identifies himself as "Layman" suggests that all the fuss I made in my blog about the reliability of disk drives is somewhat old school. June 15, 3:00 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 Toshiba develops laptop HD DVD-RW drive Toshiba will unveil in Taipei on Tuesday a slim HD DVD rewriter suitable for use in laptop computers. June 4, 5:27 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 A small step to improve disk reliability The storage industry isn't necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it’s in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the physical block size of disk drives to 4,096 bytes instead of 512 bytes. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization in a USB drive Virtualization software leader VMware Inc. is testing a desktop virtualization program that can be stored on a USB drive and moved from one computer to another. March 5, 4:05 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 Driving toward a faster boot Maybe it's because of my fixation on storage gear, but lately it seems as if the IT world is revolving around disk drives more that ever before. CES 2007 is no exception, from what I hear. January 11, 3:00 a.m. PST Toast 8 Titanium gets TiVoToGo, Blu-ray Roxio on Monday announced Toast 8 Titanium, the newest version of its popular CD and DVD burning software for Mac OS X. The new version touts a long list of enhancements including TiVoToGo, Blu-ray disc burning and more. It costs $99.99. January 8, 12:38 p.m. PST JVC develops high-definition hard-disk camcorder Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) will soon add to its Everio range of hard-disk drive camcorders with a model that can record high-definition (HD) video, it said Sunday at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. January 7, 2:10 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 Dell chooses Blu-ray format for notebook Dell Inc. added Blu-ray disc capability to its notebook PC line on Monday, making an effort to compete with Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. in the growing market for mobile high-definition video platforms. December 11, 12:46 p.m. PST Former Elpida exec pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing A former executive at Elpida Memory Inc. will serve time in prison and pay a US$250,000 fine for participating in a global conspiracy to fix DRAM (dynamic RAM) prices, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. November 16, 10:57 a.m. PST Hitachi targets cars, videos with new hard disks Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital video recording and automotive navigation markets in 2007. September 1, 5:29 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 Seagate relegates Maxtor brand to the bargain bin Just about nine months after announcing its acquisition of Maxtor, Seagate is finally telling the world how the two combined companies plan to dominate the disk drive market. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT HD DVD group to step up promotion in North America A group of companies backing the HD DVD high-definition optical disc standard are planning to step up their promotional activities in the U.S. and Canada, they said Tuesday. July 11, 11:13 p.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 Hack Tales: Air-gap networking for the price of a pair of sneakers Federal IT managers face troubling times when it comes to synchronizing an air-gap network. And just in case you’re thinking “air gap” refers to a new brand of sneakers … well, you’re almost right. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Rambus wins $306.5M in damages against Hynix A jury has found that Hynix Semiconductor violated a series of Rambus patents and awarded Rambus $306.5 million in damages. April 25, 4:14 a.m. PDT Fujitsu raises its profit forecast Strong results from Fujitsu's hard-disk drive and mobile phone divisions should push the company's profits for the year just ended higher than expected, it said Tuesday. April 18, 4:09 a.m. PDT Lite-On acquires BenQ's optical drive factories Taiwanese optical disk drive maker Lite-On Technology has acquired the optical disk drive manufacturing operations of BenQ, making Lite-On the world's second biggest producer of the storage devices, it announced on Monday. April 10, 4:51 a.m. PDT Toshiba to ship first HD-DVD laptop Toshiba plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive. April 10, 4:46 a.m. PDT EU approves Sony-NEC joint venture The European Commission announced Friday that it has approved the creation of an optical disc drive (ODD) joint venture between Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. March 31, 10:09 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 Exabyte stretches the tape drive A new tape drive from Exabyte promises to ease the growing pains of the small company that one day realizes it has more data to back up than can fit on a single tape. The VXA-172, which Exabyte began shipping at the end of February, has the unique feature of being expandable. You can purchase a starter unit capped at 172GB (compressed), and later, when your mountain of data outstrips that capacity, you can buy a license to expand the capacity to 320GB. No need to buy new tape drives or jump to a new tape format. March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST StorageTek takes spot in Sun's four key brands Sun Microsystems now considers StorageTek one of its major core-business brands, a company executive said Tuesday. February 21, 5:42 p.m. PST IBM touts higher clock speeds in Power6 IBM Corp. Tuesday detailed new circuit design techniques that it says will double the clock speed of its forthcoming Power6 processors over the speed of its Power5 processors without dramatically increasing power requirements. February 7, 4:36 p.m. PST Iomega CEO Heid resigns Iomega Chief Executive Officer Werner Heid has resigned, following discussions with the company's board of directors, the company said Friday. February 3, 2:38 p.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 HP weighs in further on data center heat issues Hewlett-Packard Co. announced three products Monday designed to help enterprise users deal with power management difficulties. The products, due to ship Feb. 6, include a water-cooled heat exchanger unit which can be attached to the side of a server rack. January 30, 11:01 a.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 Seagate shipping 160GB laptop drive Seagate Technology has begun shipping a 160GB hard-disk drive for use in laptop computers, it said Monday. January 17, 4:28 a.m. PST Fujitsu aims to become bigger hard-disk player See correction below. January 13, 6:45 a.m. PST Connecting the capacity dots I considered going to this year's CES show, and finally decided not to. "You should go there, but just once," is the somewhat ominous advice I got from a friend. Maybe next year. January 12, 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 Will Seagate's acquisition of Maxtor spell trouble for its rivals? Three years ago, a January Storage Insider column focused on a big and, at that time, stunning acquisition in the disk drive market segment. The deal essentially translated into IBM selling its disk drive business to Hitachi by way of creating a new company, Hitachi Global Storage Technology, which became the steward of that storage segment for the Japanese giant. December 29, 3:00 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 Disk-storage market reached new highs in Q3, IDC says Worldwide factory revenue for external disk storage systems grew faster than ever during the third quarter, market analyst IDC said in a statement Friday. December 2, 3:58 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 Hard disks: the autumn years I once reviewed a RAM-based storage device, a huge rack-mounted backplane equipped with memory cards and an SCSI interface. It was hot, loud, and expensive, but I was convinced I had the future roaring away in my living room. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hitachi sells portion of Elpida Memory Hitachi Ltd. has sold just over 4 percent of the outstanding stock shares in Elpida Memory Inc., Japan's leading supplier of DRAM (dynamic-RAM) computer memory chips, Elpida said Tuesday. September 13, 1:53 a.m. PDT Hard disk drive shipments were unusually strong in Q2 The global hard-disk drive (HDD) industry benefitted from unusually strong demand between April and the end of June, normally the weakest season for the industry, market researcher iSuppli said Wednesday. August 18, 5:17 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Storage hardware > Storage > Storage hardware |
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