News

• 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 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.

• 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.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

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

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 02:50

  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.

• Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory

  By Lucas Mearian | 05 May, 2012 06:17

  Johns Hopkins University engineers are using diamonds to change the properties of an alloy used in phase-change memory, a change that could lead to the development higher capacity storage systems that retain data more quickly and last longer than current media.

• Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:53

  Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to both block and file-based data through a single management interface.

• EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:11

  EMC today announced it has qualified its Data Domain Boost software for use with Oracle Recovery Manager, allowing data deduplication to take place on Oracle backup servers prior to crossing a storage network.

• HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 April, 2012 06:39

  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.

• Quantum releases LTFS appliance that makes tape like NAS

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 April, 2012 07:33

  Quantum Corp. today announced its first tape storage appliance that uses the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), allowing data to be stored and accessed on tape cartridges in a highly accessible format.

• EMC unveils preconfigured private cloud tools for partners

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 April, 2012 23:18

  EMC today announced a pre-configured private cloud platform created through an alliance with six hardware and software vendors.

• Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 20:19

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

• LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards

  By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 02:20

  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.

• PCIe SSD task force to tackle interoperability issues

  By Lucas Mearian | 31 March, 2012 03:35

  Fifty industry representatives have signed on to a task force created to address interoperability issues related to a plethora of form factors and connectivity issues for PCIe solid-state drives (SSDs).