Micron flash chip offloads memory management for portables
Flash memory maker Micron Technology said that it will ship a new high-density flash memory chip for portable media players that relieves mobile processors of NAND management functions.
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Layoffs leave orphaned hardware, unused software licenses
Pat Beemer, IT director for Seattle Lighting, has a lot of orphaned computer hardware and unused software licenses on his hands -- the result of what he calls "serious" layoffs at the company.
Sun adds SSD to its x64 servers, blade systems
Sun's systems design approach to SSD integration across software, systems and storage will give users up to 70 percent faster response times and up to 98 percent less power consumption than traditional spinning hard disk drives, the company said.
Facebook temporarily loses more than 10 percent of users' photos
Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted on a blog post Monday that over the weekend a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10 to 15 percent of its users stored photographs.
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.
DOJ allegations against EMC focus on kickbacks, overcharges
The US Justice Department (DOJ) believes that EMC gave kickbacks to federal IT consultants and overpriced its hardware, software and technology services to the government beginning in the late 1990s.
HP shuts down Upline online storage service
Hewlett-Packard Monday said it has closed down its online backup service after less than a year of operation.
Samsung's 256GB SSD offers capacity, speed
But tests yield slower read speeds than Samsung claims
EMC upgrades NAS line with SSDs, file deduplication
EMC Monday announced an upgrade to its entire line of Celerra network-attached storage systems, saying it will now offer solid-state disks and file-level data de-duplication on the arrays and its gateway device.
Seagate drops SSD patent lawsuit against STEC
Seagate Technology Thursday said it has dropped its lawsuit and all claims alleging STEC misappropriated its hard disk drive (HDD) technology as it related to the development of solid state disk (SSD) drives.
Sun offers open-source encryption key management protocol
Sun announced Tuesday that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management API be used as a universal way to allow encrypting devices to communicate with key management systems.
Symantec to deliver cloud-based backup service
Symantec will begin offering an online storage service targeted at consumers by the end of next month.
SanDisk announces mass production of high-capacity flash
SanDisk Tuesday announced that it will begin mass production of the first high-performance X3 and X4 flash memory, using 32- and 43-nanometer lithography process technology, respectively. The denser flash technology will enable up to 64Gbit of memory in a single chip, or twice what multilevel cell memory offers today, the company said.
Survey: 40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal data
A New York computer forensics firm found that 40 percent of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders from eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information -- everything from corporate financial data to the Web-surfing history and downloads of a man with a foot fetish.
Sun launches new 'flagship' midrange arrays
Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced two new midrange, modular disk arrays that double the capacity, memory and throughput of its previous 6500 series arrays.