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Article | 9/06/2010 Dell unveils Juniper gear, updates EqualLogic
Dell is set to roll out significant enhancements to its EqualLogic storage line on Wednesday, along with its first rebadged Juniper Networks products ...
Article | 4/06/2010 Disk storage sales hit double-digit growth
For the first time in as many quarters, a new report shows that worldwide sales of external disk storage systems experienced double digit growth, offe...
Article | 4/06/2010 Hitachi LG develops Blu-ray drive with built-in SSD
Hitachi LG Data Storage Korea is presenting a first-of-its-kind product at Computex this week, an Blu-ray Disc optical drive that combines a solid-sta...
Article | 3/06/2010 HP unveils network, storage gear to feed SMB demand
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced a variety of products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a segment that worldwide spends an estimat...
Article | 28/05/2010 Store your stuff on a Stormtrooper: Star Wars USB drives
Never mind a specific date; the whole month of May is synonymous with Star Wars. So, in a final nod to The Empire Strikes Back’s 30th anniversary, con...
Article | 27/05/2010 Researchers develop nanotech for 50TB tape cartridge
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. and Tokyo Institute of Technology jointly announced this month that they have developed an ultra high capacity tape media that wi...
Article | 15/05/2010 NetApp hopes to catch virtualisation, cloud computing wave
The Pitch: Having data in silos makes storage complex, says Manish Goel, NetApp's executive vice president of product operations. Goel says the compan...
Article | 13/05/2010 Citrix unveils bare-metal desktop hypervisor, ahead of VMware
Citrix is unveiling its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, known as XenClient, with a test version being released for download this week and general avail...
Article | 11/05/2010 SSDs paired with USB 3.0 for fastest ever backup drive
Perhaps this is what USB 3.0 was invented for. Storage maker OCZ Technology has announced a new external drive that combines solid state drive (SSD) w...
Article | 7/05/2010 First USB 3.0 portable drives hit market
A majority of laptops come with USB 2.0 ports, but that will change as its successor, USB 3.0, begins to take hold. HP has said it will bring USB 3.0 ...
Article | 6/05/2010 Will 'hella' follow mega, giga and tera?
One day in the distant future, when our descendents complain about their sluggish "yottabit" Internet connections, they may -- thanks to the efforts o...
Article | 29/04/2010 Flash memory set to benefit from mobile Internet explosion
Look for NAND technology to thrive as the world becomes ever more interconnected through mobile devices and data centers seek to become more efficient...
Article | 27/04/2010 Sony to end floppy disk production
The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage...
Article | 21/04/2010 The skinny on solid state drives
Solid state drives are appearing in all types of gear these days. We tested seven SSD-based products – three PCIe boards, two SAN systems, a server bl...
Article | 20/04/2010 Why aren't SSDs getting cheaper?
Solid-state drives (SSD) have been among the hottest hardware products for more than two years, with a good deal of uptake within the consumer PC, not...