Stories by Lucas Mearian

Article | 28/10/2011 LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce
Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI Corp. today announced it will acquire SandForce, the leading maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class a...
Article | 8/10/2011 Imation launches line of NAS appliances for nearline, offline storage
Imation, a vendor of removable storage medium that includes hard disk drives and magnetic tape, today announced its first network-attached storage app...
Article | 8/10/2011 HP set to release NAND flash replacement in 18 months
A Hewlett-Packard senior fellow this week told attendees at the International Electronics Forum 2011 in Seville that his company will have a new non-v...
Article | 5/10/2011 Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015
Worldwide revenue from vendors selling external disk storage subsystems for cloud-based systems will grow from $267.4 million this year to $1.45 billi...
Article | 28/09/2011 OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching
If you install OCZ's latest solid-state product in your desktop or laptop, it won't show up as a separate drive that you can drag and drop data onto.
Article | 28/09/2011 Violin releases two new flash memory arrays
Violin Memory on Tuesday introduced two new all-NAND flash arrays that double the capacity over their predecessors and offer up to 160TB of capacity i...
Article | 22/09/2011 EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform
EMC's Greenplum subsidiary today announced a new capability to its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance (DCA) that allows users to mix and match unstructur...
Article | 22/09/2011 Imation buys IronKey's hardware assets
Storage device manufacturer Imation Corp. has reached a deal to buy the hardware business of privately-held IronKey, best known for its highly secure ...
Article | 21/09/2011 LaCie ships Thunderbolt-compatible external drive
LaCie today launched its first external hard drive with a 10Gbs Thunderbolt port for use with <a href="http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/">Apple's next...
Article | 16/09/2011 Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers
Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive (SSD) aimed at being used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applicati...
Article | 13/09/2011 IBM's Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients
Watson, IBM's game-show playing supercomputer, will soon try its hand at assisting physicians in the WellPoint health care plan in diagnosing and trea...
Article | 7/09/2011 Are costly SSDs worth the money?
With 5,000 employees and 280 branch offices, Associated Bank is a prime example of a medium-sized business with big data demands.
Article | 2/09/2011 Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud
In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash tr...
Article | 1/09/2011 OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket
OCZ Wednesday introduced its first hybrid drive, the RevoDrive Hybrid, which combines 100GB of NAND flash memory with a 1TB hard disk drive along with...
Article | 23/08/2011 Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product
Texas Memory Systems (TMS), best known for its pricey, yet extremely high-performance NAND flash-based storage arrays, has introduced a new system tha...