IBM adding SSD technology to blade servers
IBM Tuesday announced that SanDisk's Serial ATA 5000 2.5-in. solid-state drive will be offered as a data storage option for the IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM blade server by the end of July.
Stories by Brian Fonseca
IPhone gets file storage muscle -- without Apple's help
A third-party vendor has already unveiled software that adds storage capabilities to Apple's popular iPhone mobile device.
Microsoft, EMC, Cisco join to secure government data
Microsoft, EMC and Cisco Systems on Tuesday jointly unveiled plans to build a system for sharing sensitive government data called the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) that will let various government agencies and their vendors securely share sensitive information.
High-speed SAS hard drive growth set to explode
The demand for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives continues to pick up steam, fuelling predictions by Gartner that 21 million 3Gbps SAS drives will ship during 2008, nearly double the 12 million expected to ship this year.
IDC lists top 10 storage predictions for 2007
Corporate IT operations will work to improve capacity-control systems, drive disaster recovery centralization and consistency, and bring in new technology to support the rapid growth of virtualization and personal storage systems, according to IDC's top 10 storage predictions for 2007.
IT execs look for help in Web 2.0 efforts
An electronic revolution is taking place at George Washington University, as its CIO issues a call to IT arms to find ways to satisfy increasing user demands for support of Web 2.0 technologies like blogs and wikis.
Cisco, RSA team up in effort to encrypt network data
Cisco Systems and RSA Security have announced plans to jointly develop security technology that will provide encryption keys for data at rest first on tape drives and eventually for other types of networked storage media.
EMC adds de-duplication support to VMware
Driving home a message that storage management must become more efficient to keep up with the unrelenting pace of data growth, EMC has unveiled a host of new offerings, including a $US1 million virtual tape library and upgraded de-duplication software, at its EMC World user conference in Orlando.
Unisys intros dollars-per-gigabyte storage payment plan
Unisys last week unveiled its new Metered Storage and Managed Utility Storage offerings, as part of an effort to help large organizations more easily with procure storage capacity.
Forrester: Storage resource management gets ignored
Many enterprise customers are dragging their feet on adopting and implementing storage resource management (SRM) offerings, leaving their IT environments in danger of data overruns, capacity planning woes and poor storage strategy execution, according to a study by Forrester Research.
Hard-drive changes: Long Block Data standard gets green light
Paving the way for hard disk drive makers to take advantage of higher areal density -- something that can boost capacity without sacrificing disk reliability -- the International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) announced it has finalized the definition of the Long Block Data (LBD) sector standard.
IBM gives SharePoint users Tivoli backup muscle
IBM introduced its new Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for Microsoft SharePoint Wednesday, giving users of the popular Microsoft online collaboration tool access to new backup and recovery options. Adding to its appeal, the new Tivoli component will integrate with all of TSM Extended Edition server's data protection capabilities on the back end.
File serving aids CGI film development
A perusal of Internet message boards and online forums shows that fan anticipation of seeing characters from popular Japanese superhero-themed cartoons such as Gatchaman and Astro Boy make the 21st century leap to feature-length computer-generated imagery (CGI) films is reaching a fever pitch.
EHarmony stores plenty of romance
Online dating site eHarmony.com continues to amass scores of data to fuel its online relationship service for 15 million registered users. The company 18 months ago deployed clustered storage systems to handle the photos, images, logs and other content types it has added to the online profiles it stores for its users. In an interview this week at the Computerworld Storage Networking World conference in San Diego, Mark Douglas, vice-president of technology at eHarmony, talked about the company's use of storage clusters, how he chooses storage vendors, why the company is phasing out tape backup, and about new projects planned to keep online dating rolling along.
IT managers fear growing technical gender gap
Weary of answering late-night alerts and troubleshooting calls, Bethany King finally had enough. Six months ago, she closed the book on a 12-year stretch as an IT storage administration professional to become an IT auditor.