Stories by Lucas Mearian

NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

By Lucas Mearian | 10 February, 2012 09:29

Tags: SugarSync, storage, software, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, Mobile and Wireless, internet, disaster recovery, cloud computing, business continuity, applications

Hitachi releases first 25nm SLC SSDs for storage arrays

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) Wednesday unveiled what it calls the first enterprise-class, single-level cell NAND flash solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nanometer technology.

By Lucas Mearian | 10 February, 2012 03:56

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, Intel, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, hitachi, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

Web-based counseling -- Telepsychiatry -- is taking off

Dr. Avrim Fishkind, a psychiatrist in Houston, rarely sees any of his patients in person, and that's the way they like it.

By Lucas Mearian | 09 February, 2012 22:33

Tags: Mobile and Wireless, internet, industry verticals, health care

IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.

By Lucas Mearian | 08 February, 2012 09:21

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, smartphones, netapp, IBM, EMC, consumer electronics, Apple

Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

Intel Monday started shipping its fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD), the first to use the SandForce (now LSI) SFI-2281 NAND flash controller , which promises 500MB/sec-plus performance.

By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 02:01

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, sandforce, LSI, Intel

Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 00:26

Tags: symantec, storage software, Storage Management, storage, security, IDC, Forensics, e-discovery

EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

By Lucas Mearian | 06 February, 2012 08:32

Tags: Virtualization, Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays

Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.

By Lucas Mearian | 01 February, 2012 05:36

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.

By Lucas Mearian | 31 January, 2012 06:58

Tags: storage, IBM

Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 06:31

Tags: VMware, storage software, Storage Management, storage, software, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, mozy, Mobile and Wireless, internet, EMC, disaster recovery, cloud computing, business continuity, applications

CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system

Object-based storage vendor Cleversafe today announced the availability of a storage system that can house up to 10 exabytes (that's 1 billion gigabytes) of data in a single pool of capacity.

By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 00:11

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, BI and Analytics

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

EMC CEO Joe Tucci today offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2012 09:32

Tags: VMware, storage software, Storage Management, Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

EMC's Tucci changes mind, to stay on as CEO into 2013

EMC CEO Joe Tucci has said he would honour a request from EMC's board and remain chairman and CEO into 2013.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2012 05:08

Tags: storage, it management, IT Leadership, IT industry, EMC, CEO role

IBM's Watson Advises at Cancer Center

IBM's Watson supercomputer is about to begin evaluating cancer treatment options that can be delivered to physicians in a matter of seconds.

By Lucas Mearian | 23 January, 2012 22:11

Tags: Sina, Mainframes and Supercomputers, industry verticals, IBM, health care, hardware systems, hardware

Micron to acquire PCIe virtualization vendor Virtensys

Micron Technology on Friday announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Virtensys Ltd., a U.K.-based provider of PCIe-sharing products. No financial details on the deal were released.

By Lucas Mearian | 21 January, 2012 08:26

Tags: Virtualization, storage, Networked Storage, network-attached storage, micron technology, hardware systems, hardware, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

 
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