SSD onslaught: Hard drives poised for double-digit revenue drop
Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year.
Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year.
Hitachi today announced the industrys highest-capacity 10,000rpm enterprise-class hard drive, the Ultrastar C10K1200.
Seagate and Virident today announced they're working together to produce their first PCIe SSD.
Researchers at a UK-based bioinformatics school have stored .mp3 and text files in DNA material that they claim can last 10,000 years.
Micron today announced it's highest endurance SSD for servers, the P400m, boasting the ability to fill a 400GB drive 10 times a day for five years.
Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, plans to launch a new file-sharing site under the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz and will offer 50GB of free storage to all members.
As a February deadline approaches for physicians to report on the status of their EHR rollouts, a number of complaints over ease of deployment and reimbursement payments have also come into the federal government, which an official said the agency plans to address.
Fabless semiconductor maker Wilocity and Qualcomm announced at CES what they're calling the first multi-gigabit wireless chipset reference architecture based on the new WiGig 60GHz and 802.11ad standards for high-speed downloads, docking, networking.
Dropbox announced a tighter integration with Samsung mobile devices, allowing users to enable file sharing across multiple products from smartphones and cameras to smart TVs.
LaCie today announced its largest RAID array with Thunderbolt connectivity, offering two 10Gbps ports for connectivity
The new SATA Express specification will define new device connectors and motherboard connectors that will support both PCIe drives and existing SATA devices, offering a low-cost solution to fully utilize the performance of SSDs and hybrid drives
EMC and Lenovo are expanding the joint LenovoEMC Ltd. venture to include co-branded NAS products for SMBs and the distributed enterprise.
Western Digital is expected to release versions of an enterprise-class 3.5-in. helium-filled drive this year, which could propel the company into first place for enterprise drive sales.
The FBI is examining a broken hard drive found in Adam Lanzas room, searching for evidence about whom he was communicating with and how he was using the computer before Friday's shooting rampage at a Connecticut school.
In its Project X initiative, EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers and is developing software to tie all of an enterprise's flash equipment together.