Data Storage

Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard

Facebook's Open Rack spec looks to make data centres more efficient, as tech giants jump on the Open Compute train

13 years ago

Apple Blocks Dropbox Apps

The new Dropbox SDK features mechanics that are against the Apple App Store policy

13 years ago

HP Launches 3PAR Storage Performance Guarantee

Promises to double the virtual server performance, by any means necessary

13 years ago

Oracle Targets Large Backups With New ZFS Appliance

Oracle's new ZFS Backup Appliance can back up full workloads at speeds up to 20TB per hour

13 years ago

IBM Helps Leicester Tigers Predict Their Game

Predictive analytics will be used to help the team reduce number and severity of injuries

13 years ago

IBM Snaps Up Vivisimo To Bolster Big Data Analytics

Acquisition will bring 140 new customers to IBM, including Airbus, Procter & Gamble and the US Navy

13 years ago

EMC And NetApp Poised To Fight Over Green Storage Company?

EMC and NetApp are eyeing up the all-Flash storage firm XtremIO

13 years ago

“Dirty Disk” Vulnerability Threatens The Cloud

Rackspace and VPS.NET have resolved the issue, but shared storage in OnApp-based clouds could leak data

13 years ago

Google Drive Shakes Up Cloud Storage Market

Chris Preimesberger asks what took Google so long to launch Google Drive?

13 years ago

Google Finally Reveals Drive Cloud Storage

Google Drive cloud storage will work closely with other Google products

13 years ago

Infosec: One In 10 Second-Hand Hard Drives Keep Personal Data

ICO research confirms the fact that valuable data is still on many hard drives even after they are supposedly wiped

13 years ago

Oracle Adds Features To ZFS NAS Appliance

Oracle has unveiled the Sun-developed ZFS Storage 7420 NAS appliance, and upgraded JD Edwards' Enterprise One application

13 years ago

Businesses Confidence In Data Security At Low Ebb

A new survey has revealed a chronic lack of confidence among businesses about their data protection

13 years ago

Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners

Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts

13 years ago

Google Drive 5GB Dropbox Rival To Land Next Week?

Apple Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android versions on the way for Google's Dropbox rival, say sources

13 years ago

Quantum Adds Portability To LTFS Storage

Quantum's introductory Linear Tape File System appliance features a network-attached storage front end

13 years ago

iSuppli: Desktop PCs Shifting To Smaller 2.5-Inch Disk Drives

iSuppli has found that disk drive manufacturers are shifting to more power-efficient 2.5-inch drives

13 years ago

Portugal Proposes Terabyte Tax To Pay Copyright Holders

Portugal is planning a tax of up to €0.5 per Gigabyte, to pay copyright owners

13 years ago

Western Digital Super Slim HDD Targets Ultrabooks

Western Digital is seeking to provide an alternative to SSDs with its new shock resistent Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive

13 years ago

IBM PureSystems Converge RISC and x86, Network And Storage

IBM's converged data centre entry attempts to package up expertise as well as hardware

13 years ago

Red Hat’s Clustered Storage Polishes Gluster

Red Hat's open source cloud file system supports Hadoop for big data

13 years ago

IBM Updates DB2, InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for Big Data

IBM has updated its DB2 database, as well as releasing InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for big data

13 years ago

Natural Disasters Contribute To HDD Decline In 2011

IDC figures confirm that natural disasters in both Thailand and Japan impacted the HDD industry in 2011

13 years ago

Samsung To Build £4.4 Billion NAND Chip Plant In China

The company will produce silicon to cater for China’s growing domestic market

13 years ago

Apache Promotes Big Data Tool

Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status…

13 years ago

Fusion-io CEO: Storage Heading For Commoditisation

Fusion-io CEO David Flynn talks to us about how the storage industry is heading for commoditisation because of flash at…

13 years ago

IBM £26.6m Exascale Project To Power World’s Largest Radio Telescope

The Square Kilometre Array will process twice the amount of data generated on the Internet every day

13 years ago

Druva Adds Mobile Capabilities To Backup Service

Druva's on-premises enterprise configuration can now control 100,000 devices from a single console

13 years ago

SMBs Lack Adequate Backup Plans, Warns Mozy

A Mozy survey has found that significant number of SMBs don't implement safe backup strategies, despite the risks

13 years ago

AWS Cloud Hosts Massive Human Genetics Catalogue

AWS gives researchers instant access to the complete 200TB database from the 1000 Genomes Project

13 years ago