EMC Corp. plans to play a big role in forcing the price of solid state disk (SSD) drives down as it deploys the technology throughout its family of enterprise-class disk storage arrays. read more »
By Channelworld staff, Channelworld India 9 May, 2008
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently announced the appointment of Thao A Nguyen as vice president of worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturing. Nguyen will lead three Hitachi GST HDD manufacturing facilities in Thailand, Singapore and Shenzhen. Nguyen will be based in Shenzhen, where he will be the most senior executive overseeing HDD manufacturing, a clear sign of the company's commitment to China. read more »
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 6 May, 2008
To help IT departments prepare for the coming onslaught of data, HP on Tuesday introduced a platform that combines storage and computing in one rack with a single file system and management console. read more »
By Brian Fonseca, Computerworld (US online) 2 May, 2008
Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research Inc., IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems. Forrester analyst Stephanie Balarous said managers must work to convince corporate executives that disaster recovery is not simply an "insurance policy," but can boost operational efficiency by protecting systems against potential failures. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 2 May, 2008
With its US$1 billion acquisition of MySQL now behind it, Sun reported financial results on Thursday that show the company is still struggling to boost its revenue. read more »
EMC on Thursday introduced Mac support for Mozy, its online backup service. MozyHome for Mac enables Mac users to back up and all data to a secure online location. The service is free for storage up to 2GB, and costs US$4.95 per month for unlimited storage capacity. read more »
By Jared Heng, Computerworld Singapore 18 Apr, 2008
Global digital information (the digital universe) amounted to 281 billion gigabytes (GB) (281 exabytes) in 2007, or almost 45 GB of digital information for every person on earth, according to EMC-sponsored research by IDC. The figure is 10 percent more than the previous estimate, and is expected to hit 1.8 zettabytes (1,800 exabytes) in 2011. read more »
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 18 Apr, 2008
In the latest of a long line of data and storage-related buys, IBM said Friday it has acquired Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum. read more »
By Mayumi Negishi, Computerworld (US) 17 Apr, 2008
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. has dropped plans to sell a stake in its troubled computer disk drive business and aims to turn the business around by going after market share and cutting costs, the head of the unit said Thursday. read more »
By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service\Taipei Bureau 15 Apr, 2008
Seagate Technology filed a potentially far-reaching patent infringement lawsuit against STEC on Monday, over flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs). read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
