Overland Storage has announced the availability of the first models in its next-generation NEO SERIES line of scalable, automated tape libraries.
The NEO E-Series libraries, which provide embedded functionality, are geared at meeting a wide range of demanding data protection and long-term archive requirements.
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WD has announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive – the world’s highest capacity drive.
The device is the latest addition to WD’s environmentally friendly Caviar Green hard drive family.
The British Computer Society (BCS) is to develop a new qualification for data centre operators.
It follows the publication of the EU Code of Conduct for data centres and BCS’ recent work to encourage the IT industry to address the issues of energy cost, power consumption and carbon emissions.
NAND flash revenue in two key applications – Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Video Capture from Digital Video Cameras (DVCs) – will see compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of over 100 per cent through 2012, according to In-Stat.
The analysts said this will overcome some of the weaknesses in other segments of the NAND flash market and drive overall growth to 30 per cent CAGR.
The new year is firmly underway and time is running out for you to submit your nominations and votes for storage.biz-news’ 2008 Man and Product of the Year awards.
But with voting expected to be close in both award categories there’s plenty of opportunity for latecomers to make their mark.
Cloud computing – including cloud storage – will transform the industry and become the predominant way in which IT is consumed.
That’s the prediction of Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Silicon Valley start-up ParaScale.
He said there has been a rapid heightening of interest recently in all things cloud – applications, computing and storage.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has appointed Steven Campbell as Chief Technology Officer.
Campbell will have global responsibility for all aspects of the company’s product development and technical vision.
SanDisk Corporation and LG Electronics have demonstrated a new technology for mobile phones that offers multimedia-rich services using removable flash memory cards.
It enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to distribute preloaded and downloaded content on removable memory cards, while restricting the accessibility of such premium content to their network subscribers.
Seagate is to provide a free firmware upgrade for customers whose 1TB Barracuda drives have failed.
The storage company said it has isolated a "potential firmware issue" that is believed to be responsible for a high rate of drive failure globally.
Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest wholesale datacentre provider, has been recognised for "Innovation in an Outsourced Environment" by the prestigious Datacentre Leaders’ 2008 Awards.
Digital Realty Trust received the honor for a Turn-Key Datacentre that Digital Realty Trust delivered to IBM to support growth of the company’s hosting business in France.