Fears for lost data
Texas has pulled its voter registration system from a $863m data center consolidation project being overseen by IBM, saying it distrusts the giant's ability to recover lost data.…
x64-commodity drip effect
Liquid Computing is moving further away from its home-grown server design and more towards commodity x64 iron as it tries to ride the unified computing wave.…
Big-Blue software diet
IBM on Thursday kicked off a free public beta of a new cloud computing development and test environment that's hosted on Big Blue's machines.…
Manufacturers start looking for the next big thing
Comment Hitachi GST president Steve Milligan says one of the drivers affecting the hard drive industry is the need for efficient storage with technologies like virtualisation and deduplication. What is he on about?…
320 gigs on 1.8-inch HDD
By putting 320GB of capacity on a 1.8-inch drive, Toshiba has signalled its confidence in this micro-drive form factor.…
Wall Street worries low hanging disk fruit plucked
A twenty-fold profit increase for solid state drive supplier STEC in its third 2009 quarter was followed by a share price drop on worries that its golden growth years are coming to a close.…
Super Talent goes SuperSpeed
Flash vendor Super Talent is leading the pack again and has come up with a USB 3.0 thumb drive.…
A chip of the old vBlocks
As El Reg reported earlier Tuesday, Cisco Systems, EMC and VMware announced a partnership to peddle integrated server, storage, and networking stacks to data centers that want to buy preconfigured and integrated x64 servers running VMware's vSphere 4.0 software.…
PCI Express to the rescue
Storage specialist Buffalo has re-announced its first USB 3.0 hard drive and this time it's also offering punters stuck in the USB 2.0 era - all of them, in other words - a PCI Express Card containing a pair of SuperSpeed ports.…
Pockets Kadena Systems
Backup supplier Arkeia is buying Kadena Systems and its deduplication technology for an undisclosed amount.…
Company steels itself for doomed proxy fight
Adaptec's November 10th AGM runup has been bespoiled by dreadful quarterly results and the company is facing the likely ejection of its CEO from the board.…
Integrated stacks to face off
Comment EMC and Cisco have announced a plan to sell virtual blocks - or V-Blocks - likely to be integrated stacks of virtualised servers, storage and switches, either as products or services. HP's Cell technology could achieve the same end: IT stacks provisioned on demand in private or public clouds.…
And then there were three
Western Digital has jumped into the enterprise-class hard drive market with a 10,000rpm, 300GB capacity drive.…
Switch it on and off at the dataset level
Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) now has built-in deduplication, making it probably the most space-efficient file system there is.…
Frankfurt gets first peek at DAT 320
Tandberg Data showed off a 320GB DAT drive at SNW in Frankfurt and has upped its RDX removable drive capacity to 640GB.…
Ten million greenbacks for what exactly?
Drobo, the supplier of stylish 4- or 8-bay add your own drives external storage boxes, has raised $10m in an E-round funding exercise.…
vBlock and tackle
The long rumored partnership between networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems, server virtualization juggernaut VMware, and storage powerhouse (and VMware owner) EMC will be announced this week, according to various reports.…
Modest improvement
3PAR has announced modestly improved results beating expectations and set against a still-depressed customer spending environment.…
Intel and Numonyx open a PCM die capacity door
Intel and Numonyx announced a way to build vertical stacks of Phase Change Memory arrays without losing performance.…
Boringly booming business as usual
Compellent has shown steady growth again, recording $32.2m revenues in its third 2009 period in a 31 per cent rise on the previous quarter.…
Today Nehelem-based boxes, tomorrow the world!
Data Domain has been working on global deduplication across its DDX arrays for a couple of years, but the technology is not yet ready.…
Rick Belluzzo upbeat after profit growth
Quantum sold $175m of products and services in its second fiscal 2010 quarter, 19 per cent less than a year ago. But CEO Rick Belluzzo is cheerful: his firm made $11m profit, its best performance in five years.…
We're through the looking glass here, people
On Monday, Sony's US optical drive subsidiary said it was being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with anti-trust activities in the optical drive market. The net has now widened to include Toshiba and Hitachi.…
Lack of development potential could slow QLogic hare down
Comment Is the darn Emulex CNA chip ready or not? Competitors are saying "How come we're getting CNA design wins and Emulex is not?" What's the real Emulex CNA story here?…
Boldly going where no SAN has gone before
3PAR is actively developing technology needed to federate its InServ clustered storage arrays together and provide a single pool of resources across the federation.…
Anti-competitive disk practices? Good lord!
A Sony subsidiary has fallen under the beady eye of the US Department of Justice which is looking at competition in the optical disk drive industry.…
A house divided against itself cannot stand each other
There has been a second outpouring of letters to shareholders as the Adaptec board and Steel Partners fight Word War II over the fate of CEO Sundi Sundaresh.…
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