Storage: News

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.

Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August.

It's a lucky day for ARN's two winners of the State of the IT Channel survey related competition.

Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations.

Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.

Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.

Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput.

Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

Iomega owner EMC said today it will replace the brand on business-class NAS products with LenovoEMC, a joint venture that now sells the SMB business hardware.

Local channel partners will now have access to the LenovoEMC portfolio of network attached storage (NAS) devices.

With interest in the 7th ARN ICT Industry Awards running at an all-time high, it is with great pleasure we announce nominations are officially open.

Rambus has signed a US$240 million patent licensing agreement with SK Hynix, ending a nearly 13-year patent dispute between the two companies over memory-chip technology.

Apple has slipped new superfast PCIe flash into its thinnest of thin notebooks -- the new MacBook Air models released on Monday

With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.

Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.

There may have been a few people who spat out their coffee the morning they read that EMC had unveiled what it called the "world's first" software-defined storage platform, EMC ViPR.

Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC.

Services will take a far more prominent place at the money table, accounting for half of the Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) business by 2019, with an equal share alongside hardware, said Avnet TS global president and senior vice-president, Avnet Inc., Phil Gallagher.

Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports.

Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs.