News

• WhiteGold and Imation seal distie partnership

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 June, 2012 15:57

  Scalable storage and data security vendor, Imation, has signed a distribution deal with WhiteGold Solutions to expand its presence for scalable storage solutions within the Australian market.

• Massachusetts to tackle big data with MIT, Intel

  By Nick Barber | 30 May, 2012 22:38

  With several big data initiatives announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Governor Deval Patrick said he wants to make the state a hub for big data research.

• 60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

  By Lucas Mearian | 23 May, 2012 01:27

  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.

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2012 23:11

  At its annual user conference today, EMC announced upgrades across most of its major product lines, including a new high-end Symmetrix VMAX array with up to 4PB capacity and twice the performance of its predecessor.

• Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Shades of Mission Impossible.

• 3 Factors Pushing Indian IT Infrastructure Market to $3 bn by 2016

  By Anup Varier | 18 May, 2012 00:20

  Gartner recently announced that the Indian IT infrastructure market comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment will reach $2.05 billion (approximately INR 13,500 crore) in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase over 2011. It also mentioned that this is expected to reach $3.01 billion (approximately INR 16,200 crore) by 2016.

• Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker's intellectual property.

• Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

  Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

• HP Labs to blend digital and physical worlds

  By Nermin Bajric | 16 May, 2012 10:16

  HP’s central research unit, HP Labs, has revealed that its future direction is focused on morphing the digital and physical worlds with innovations that have enhanced environmental interaction capabilities, evolved storage, and are Cloud-powered.

• New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 May, 2012 20:18

  The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald in a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike.

• Microsoft touts Win8's ability to detect, fix hard disk problems

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 11 May, 2012 06:46

  Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive and disruptive, even as disk capacity continues to balloon.

• EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

  By Lucas Mearian | 11 May, 2012 03:14

  Advancing its roadmap toward increased use of flash storage, EMC today announced that it has purchased start-up all-flash array maker XtremIO.

• Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

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

  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.

• Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 May, 2012 02:59

  Cloud service provider Pogoplug today unveiled Pogoplug Team, which allows home offices and small businesses to turn file servers or spare PCs into pools of storage accessible from the Web.