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Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor

A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan.

By Jay Alabaster | 25 May, 2012 10:17

Tags: robotics, popular science, Future Robotics Technology Center

FujiFilm camera design to withstand water, shock, dust, freezing temperatures

FujiFilm said Wednesday it will begin sales of a digital camera in June that is waterproof, shockproof, sealed against dust and sand, and works at temperatures below freezing.

By Jay Alabaster | 23 May, 2012 13:22

Tags: popular science, digital cameras, consumer electronics, fujifilm

60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to an IHS iSuppli storage space market report published Monday.

By Lucas Mearian | 23 May, 2012 01:27

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, iSuppli, IHS

Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

If you want to speed up your PC but don't want to deal with a new hybrid hard drive, one way is to simply add an SSD cache drive to your PC. These drives aren't meant to be mass storage devices; instead, they cache your most frequent application operations and thereby improve performance.

By Bill O'Brien | 10 May, 2012 21:03

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

OCZ releases performance-boosting SSD firmware, new 64GB drive

OCZ Technology today released a firmware upgrade for its Vertex 4 line of solid-state drives (SSDs) with SATA 3.0 interfaces that doubles sequential write performance on the lower-capacity drive and markedly increases write speeds on its mid-capacity SSD.

By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 02:50

Tags: Storage Hardware, storage, OCZ Technology

Successor to DDR3 memory reaching devices next year, Micron says

Micron on Monday said that DDR4 memory -- the successor to DDR3 DRAM -- will reach computers next year, and that the company has started shipping samples of the upcoming DDR memory type.

By Agam Shah | 07 May, 2012 22:10

Tags: Nanya Technology, micron technology, memory, Components

Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering

As IT contemplates the rapidly expanding universe of storage options, at least one detail has become clear: In the majority of infrastructures, most data just sits around, feeling lonely, while a small percentage is more or less constantly in use. Addressing this issue in an elegant and cost-saving way paves the road to lower capital expenditures for storage, as well as reduced power and cooling costs, with a side order of performance gains. What's not to love?

By Paul Venezia | 03 May, 2012 20:11

Tags: Storage Server, Storage Management, Storage Area Network, storage, iscsi, hardware systems, dell, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2012 19:53

Tags: Drives, hardware systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, servers, SSD, storage, western digital

Cloudera, U.S. provider of open-source big data software, opens Japan subsidiary

Cloudera, a U.S. provider of open-source software based on Hadoop, has opened a subsidiary in Japan, where local firms are increasingly using the platform to handle their exploding data stores.

By Jay Alabaster | 26 April, 2012 18:00

Tags: business issues, cloudera, NS Solutions, NTT Data, software, storage

'Ice Cream Sandwich' makes the Galaxy Tab a little sweeter

Samsung's original 7-inch Galaxy Tab from late 2010 was an awkward animal, fusing the Android 2.2 "Froyo" smartphone operating system onto a tablet too big for the phone-sized UI and too small for Web browsing and other computer-type work. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 released in spring 2011 with the tablet-optimized Android 3 "Honeycomb" OS became the first credible Android tablet, although it still paled next to the iPad. Then last fall came the Android-derived Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet from Amazon.com that was cheap and limited largely to Amazon offerings. It quickly became the dominant Android tablet, though many argue it's not an Android tablet at all.

By Galen Gruman | 19 April, 2012 20:11

Tags: amazon.com, Android, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, hardware systems, mobile technology, samsung, smartphones, tablets

HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity

Start-up company hVault this week announced it plans to begin shipping a holographic disc drive, rack-mountable autoloader and robotic library later this year, offering archival storage that lasts at least 50 years.

By Lucas Mearian | 18 April, 2012 06:39

Tags: storage, Storage Hardware

Samsung eyes next generation of NAND to lower laptop cost

A new type of NAND flash storage for consumer electronics that can store data more densely might lower the cost of devices such as tablets and thin "ultrabook" laptops, according to Samsung.

By Stephen Lawson | 12 April, 2012 06:43

Tags: Components, consumer electronics, Drives, hardware systems, laptops, Samsung Electronics, SSD, storage, tablets

Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card

Samsung Electronics has started mass producing a microSD card that uses an Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) interface to improve data transfer speeds, the company said on Wednesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 05 April, 2012 19:38

Tags: Samsung Electronics, storage

Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

Hitachi's former disk-drive division today announced what it said it the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive.

By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 20:19

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

LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards

LSI today announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the servers.

By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 02:20

Tags: LSI, network-attached storage, Networked Storage, storage, Storage Hardware

Quantum unveils enterprise-class cloud backup services

Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments.

By Lucas Mearian | 21 March, 2012 15:21

Tags: applications, business continuity, carbonite, disaster recovery, mozy, quantum, software, storage, Storage Management, storage software, xerox

With tech breakthrough, Seagate promises 60TB drives this decade

Seagate announced it is the first hard drive maker to achieve a density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch on a disk drive platter.

By Lucas Mearian | 21 March, 2012 02:26

Tags: storage, Storage Hardware

Toshiba to launch SD memory cards with 90MBs write speeds this year

Toshiba will launch high-speed SD memory cards this year in Japan and abroad that can read data at up to 95MB per second and write at 90MB per second.

By Jay Alabaster | 16 March, 2012 04:57

Tags: Components, consumer electronics, memory, toshiba

PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

By Lucas Mearian | 15 March, 2012 05:36

Tags: Drives, SSD, storage, University of New Hampshire

National Geographic moves media archive to Cloud

The National Geographic Society has announced that it is in the process of moving its backup and archive of large unstructured multimedia files to a public cloud service.

By Lucas Mearian | 13 March, 2012 21:16

Tags: national geographic, storage, Storage Hardware, Storage Management, storage software

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