EMC buys tape assets
EMC is buying the virtual tape library (VTL) assets of Neartek.
Stories by Chris Mellor
US Defence department builds the world’s biggest SAN
The US Department of Defence (DoD) is creating the world’s largest storage-area network by combining a number of separate networks into a gigantic 17,000-port Meta SAN monster.
Storage market faces open-source revolution
The storage market has become the latest to face the same open-source revolution, with a new product from Cleversafe offering secure, economical and private storage using a dispersed storage grid technology.
Hitachi Data Systems joins virtual tape party
Hitachi Data Systems has a new virtual tape product that the company claims is able to discard up to 96 percent of duplicated backup data. Virtual tape products store backup data on disk and emulate a tape library so that backup applications continue unchanged. Data is backed up and restored at disk speed, many times faster than tape.
Make way for the terabyte laptop drive
Seagate plans to increase disk capacity by a factor of ten with new technology it has just patented, meaning your computer hard drive could soon be storing as much as a terabyte.
Turning storage strategy on its head?
Two companies, Plasmon and Nexsan, are looking at a new technology which combines magnetic and optical disks in one box to provide both data access and archiving. They believe the combination will offer a good fit for the storage and protection of so-called fixed-content data.
Google mulls 'infinite storage' idea
Google has let slip in an analyst presentation that it is thinking of offering a hosted storage service, which would be free to consumers.
Symantec and HP: Aperi standard clashes
Hewlett-Packard and Symantec have joined EMC in staying out of the IBM-driven Aperi storage group created last month. (See “EMC Refuses to join Storage Group”, Computerworld, November 7).
Cornice sued by another disk maker
Western Digital has joined Seagate Technology in suing microdrive disk manufacturer Cornice for patent infringement.
New tape rack: same size, double capacity
Storage Technology (StorageTek) has produced a new 100TB tape library that slots into a standard rack size but provides twice as much capacity as competing products.
McData loses more staff, looks ripe for eating
Things aren't looking so hot at SAN switch vendor McData Corp. Not only are its results disappointing but its sales and marketing offices appear to have the exit door stuck open:
Dell makes storage networks mainstream
Dell Inc. is planning to make storage-attached networks (SANs) mainstream with the release of its AX100, aimed at remote departments, workgroups and enterprises smaller than the top tier.
Nuclear weapons lab loses disks
The Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S.' foremost nuclear weapon design facility, has lost a computer disk.
Rambus' cheek knows no bounds
In the latest twist to the huge fights going on in the memory market, Rambus Inc. is now trying to license its DDR RAM interface technology to the very companies it is suing for patent infringement and anti-trust activities.
Welcome the Ferrari of disk drives
God only knows what you'd do with it, but if monster storage clusters are your thing, you could do worse than check out Dynamic Solutions International Corp.'s new solid state disk systems.