Stories by Lucas Mearian

Iron Mountain going back to roots in storage services

A week after Iron Mountain announced it had replaced its CEO, the company said it's considering selling its archiving, e-discovery and online backup and recovery business to return to its roots in document and tape storage services.

Written by Lucas Mearian27 April 11 20:05

Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers

BOSTON -- Financial services firms are now using social media to get customers involved in online discussion forums, advertise services and monitor what's being said about their businesses.

Written by Lucas Mearian22 April 11 20:13

SanDisk, Toshiba one up Intel, introduce 19nm flash memory

SanDisk and its partner Toshiba announced this week a 64Gbit NAND flash memory chip using 19-nanometer (nm) technology, a process one size smaller than the memory chip Intel and Micron announced last week.

Written by Lucas Mearian23 April 11 01:26

Seagate-Samsung deal to spur HDD, SSD, hybrid drive development

Seagate's proposed purchase of Samsung's hard disk drive operations will likely lead to faster development of new hard disk drive (HDD) technology and improved solid state drive (SSD) and hybrid drive output, according to industry observers.

Written by Lucas Mearian20 April 11 05:47

EMC integrates Avamar backup software and Data Domain

EMC today introduced the first major upgrade to its Avamar deduplication backup software, which integrates with the company's Data Domain appliances to give administrators a single view of their EMC backup environments.

Written by Lucas Mearian19 April 11 04:28

20nm flash chip means more mobile-device features, smaller SSDs

By reducing its NAND flash chip size by as much as 40 per cent, Intel and Micron have opened the door for tablets and smartphone manufacturers to use the extra space for product improvements such as a bigger battery, larger screen or adding another chip to handle new features.

Written by Lucas Mearian16 April 11 03:09

Toshiba releases self-wiping drives

Toshiba Wednesday unveiled its first family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) that can also erase data when connected to an unknown host.

Written by Lucas Mearian14 April 11 05:05

EMC Isilon releases new NAS products for big data

EMC's Isilon subsidiary announced new network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software aimed at becoming the infrastructure for business intelligence through big data applications.

Written by Lucas Mearian14 April 11 07:13

IBM's Watson not as smart as you think

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak intelligently to the attendees at its own conference, according to artificial intelligence (A.I.) experts who spoke at MIT Monday.

Written by Lucas Mearian13 April 11 03:08

Report: Iron Mountain to shutter cloud storage service

After only two years, Iron Mountain is planning to close its public cloud storage services , having already stopped accepting new customers as of April 1, according to market research firm Gartner.

Written by Lucas Mearian11 April 11 12:12

Most IT managers plan to adopt cloud storage

57 per cent of CIOs and storage administrators plan to adopt cloud storage -- first for email, then front office applications and finally for backup data -- according to a survey released this week.

Written by Lucas Mearian05 April 11 23:44

Intel, Micron to double SSD density by summer

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Intel and Micron plan to further shrink NAND circuitry, doubling the density of their flash chips and further reducing the cost of solid state drive (SSD) storage.

Written by Lucas Mearian05 April 11 22:54

Cisco releases security, network convergence upgrades for storage switches

Cisco today unveiled security and network convergence upgrades to its line of director-class data center switches, including a new multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability for the Nexus 7000, 5000 and 3000 series and MDS 9500 switch family.

Written by Lucas Mearian31 March 11 03:53

Permabit extends data dedupe to Linux-based NAS

Permabit Technology on Tuesday announced an iteration of its Albireo primary data deduplication software for SMB network-attached storage systems based on Linux servers.

Written by Lucas Mearian30 March 11 07:09
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