Friday 3 September, 2010

Storage

  • IDC: Storage revenues drop, but capacity shipped grows

    IDC's quarterly data storage sales report shows that quarterly revenue for worldwide storage systems was down 5.9% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to a year earlier. But the capacity shipped increased by 27.3% year-over-year to a total of 2.46 petabytes.
  • Storage market thrives in down economy

    The storage market is thriving despite a tough economy, as exploding digital information growth has forced customers to add more capacity and upgrade to newer storage systems that are faster and more efficient, analysts say.
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    CSIRO looks to the petabyte age with massive storage project

    Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is investing in a next-generation telescope which will generate more information than has been collected in the history of radio astronomy.
  • Solid state not yet on solid ground

    Companies are slowly starting to more closely evaluate solid-state storage technologies, though most are still waiting for the cost to come down before implementing it.
  • Dell director of enterprise storage Praveen Asthana

    Q&A: Praveen Asthana, Dell's director of enterprise storage

    Dell has continued to move its storage product line and services upstream, adding more sophisticated software into its arrays, which have traditionally been targeted at small to midsize businesses. At the same time, the company says it will increase its offerings around cloud-based computing, both in on-site and off-site backup and disaster recovery.
  • Storage management a black hole

    Enterprises are being stranded by a lack of managed storage offerings and a shortage of IT skills according to experts.
  • Flash storage gets enterprise attention as prices decline

    The little USB stick on your keychain and the memory in your iPod is fueling a revolution in the enterprise storage world.
  • IBM's XIV storage lacks high-end features, analyst says

    IBM has quietly released the first technology from its acquisition of XIV, the Israeli grid storage start-up headed by a former EMC guru, but the product appears to lack some high-end features and is targeted at only a very limited set of customers.
  • Removing hard drive data -- the YouTube way

    With stories surfacing on news channels regularly about lost or stolen data or the ability to recover data from discarded or resold computers and their hard drives, we decided to look at some cheap methods of removing that sensitive data from your hard drive permanently. And, what better place to look than YouTube?
  • Smart array may signal storage shift

    Although you often find statements that seem critical of disk drives in this column, I never criticize disk drives per se, but rather how we use them. As of late, I've been interested in the innovative use of disk drives in storage arrays. The latest news from Xiotech fits right into this discussion, providing further proof that the storage industry is fast turning evolution into revolution in rethinking its approach to disk drives.
  • Vendors form 10Gbit/sec Ethernet Storage Alliance

    Aaron Martin likes to plan ahead. One year ago, the IT manager at Loro Piano, an Italian luxury goods manufacturer with US operations in New York, plunked down US$30,000 for a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet storage array from Nimbus Data Systems. At the time, it was one of the only iSCSI-based storage systems available that took advantage of 10G bit/sec Ethernet speeds, with most systems supporting 1Gbit/sec Ethernet.
 
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