Stories by Lucas Mearian

Samsung now producing DDR 2.0 NAND flash, touts 3X performance gain

Samsung Electronics announced that it is now producing high-performance DDR 2.0 multi-level-cell (MLC) memory chips based on its smallest 20-nanometer (nm) circuitry. The chips boast a performance improvement of three times over the company's current chip technology and have 64 gigabits of capacity, twice what Samsung had been producing with DDR 1.0 technology.

Written by Lucas Mearian14 May 11 04:53

As 'big data' grows, IT job roles, technology must change

LAS VEGAS -- As corporate data stores continues to grow, in some cases by 50 per cent-plus a year, the expanding task of managing them and mining for information is forcing a change in how IT workers are trained.

Written by Lucas Mearian13 May 11 04:43

EMC unveils real-time data replication over thousands of miles

LAS VEGAS - EMC announced at its annual trade show today an upgrade to its data-caching appliance that allows storage arrays to replicate data between applications over distances greater than 2,000 miles.

Written by Lucas Mearian11 May 11 09:20

World's servers process 9.57ZB of data a year

Three years ago, the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information.

Written by Lucas Mearian09 May 11 20:12

EMC unveils Hadoop appliance, BI software

LAS VEGAS - EMC Monday unveiled a purpose-built appliance for processing both structured and unstructured data sets for business analytics tasks.

Written by Lucas Mearian10 May 11 06:00

EMC to sell PCIe SSD cards for server acceleration

LAS VEGAS -- As part of its strategy to touch just about every part of the private and public cloud infrastructure, EMC said today it will begin selling PCIe flash cards for servers to accelerate I/O to backend storage systems.

Written by Lucas Mearian10 May 11 08:20

Apple's iMac, MacBook Pro lines are SSD friendly

Apple's new iMac line-up, unveiled earlier this week, includes technology that better marries the popular all-in-one desktops to the speedy NAND flash storage that Apple is using in more and more of its computers.

Written by Lucas Mearian06 May 11 20:07

Fortune 1000 firms shun public cloud storage

Fewer than 10% of enterprise-class corporations are considering the public cloud as a place to store even their lowest tier of data for archive purposes, a new survey of 247 Fortune 1000 corporations shows.

Written by Lucas Mearian04 May 11 14:14

Symantec unveils SaaS storage products

At its Visions 2011 conference in Las Vegas this week, Symantec announced plans to offer its midrange backup and enterprise-class archive software products as SaaS offerings.

Written by Lucas Mearian04 May 11 14:14

Seagate breaks 1TB per platter barrier

Seagate today unveiled the first 3.5-in. hard-disk drive (HDD) featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking a previous area density benchmark.

Written by Lucas Mearian04 May 11 03:15

Researchers use disk frag to hide data

Researchers released a paper detailing how to hide data from prying legal eyes by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in plain site.

Written by Lucas Mearian29 April 11 07:11
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