Researchers have demonstrated disk write speeds one hundred times faster than current hard drives. The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. There is no equivalent read speed increase though.
Lenovo has launched software to comprehensively delete data on PC hard drives, after surveys revealed a widespread failure to remove sensitive data from hard drives on PCs slated for disposal.
Manufacturers are being offered the world's highest capacity optical storage technology to license, reportedly, leap-frogging 300GB holographic disks and offering 1TB in a DVD-size disk. But the technology has not been commercialized and product could be three to five years away.
Sun is aiming to wrest the world supercomputing crown from IBM’s Blue Gene with a US$59 million (NZ$69 million) contract from the University of Texas for its Constellation design.
Brocade has introduced pipelining technology for transferring data from a mainframe across a WAN and FICON (fibre connectivity) link to IBM and Sun virtual tape libraries. It says this can increase backup speed by up to 70%.
IT research organisations have started weighing in with advice for CIOs, including podcasts, market research and weighty practical guides to cutting datacentre power costs and emissions.
The British government is launching a Green Shift taskforce to move users away from PCs and towards dumb terminals with a broadband link to a network of green datacentres. If implemented, the move would cut Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office sales drastically.
A US engineer has devised a seemingly foolproof and cheap way to encrypt messages using the natural noise caused by electrons flowing along a wire.
Scientific researchers claim to have discovered a storage technology that could combine solid state size, speed and reliability with hard drive capacity but without spinning hard drive mechanisms. The technique is experimental and depends upon almost perfect material consistencies at the nanoscale level. Don’t sell your Seagate stock though; it isn’t going to happen any time soon.
Brocade is singing its own green praises, saying its storage area network directors draw a third of the power needed by Cisco gear. Numbers don't lie it states and compares its own power usage figures with ones from Cisco-published information to show that Cisco customers pollute the planet nearly three times as much as Brocade customers.
Tape library sales and revenue dipped in 2006 after two years of double digit growth, according to research by Freeman Reports, which specialises in researching the tape market.
Sun is offering to give away its encryption key management software interface for nothing.
Dell is the first computer system supplier to ship 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) hard drives targeted at users needing to store large amounts of digital media.
US Researchers claim to be able to attach an image to a photon and retrieve it later.
2Degrees Frost claims to have developed the cheapest storage area network (SAN) in the world, for Mac OS X users.