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  • Enterprise systems may need redesign to benefit from solid state drives

    Lab tests lead IDC to conclude that enterprise systems will need to be redesigned to get the full benefit from flash. Systems will need the intelligence to recognize when they're dealing with SSDs, which write slower than they read, and feed them dat... 

  • Seagate 3.5-inch drive achieves 1.5 TB capacity

    Seagate's 1.5 TB 3.5-inch Barracuda hard drive marks the largest jump in hard drive capacity in the history of hard drives, representing a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1 TB for a 3.5-inch drive. 

  • Storage administrators wary of SSD deployment

    Don't expect hard drives to disappear from enterprise storage just yet. Users say they will take a wait-and-see approach before implementing any new storage medium, and vendors are split whether to put the SSDs in servers or disk arrays. 

  • Dot Hill gives Fibre Channel arrays DC power option

    DC power supplies now available with Dot Hill's 5730 Fibre Channel storage arrays; Virtual Machine ediiton of Exanodes software creates virtual SANs; Sepaton adds data dedupe software to VTL. 

  • EMC to add solid-state disk to Clariion storage array

    EMC will incorporate SSD technology into a new Clariion model due out in August. Meanwhile, HP pooh-poohs SSDs in SANs but is working on a server-based approach. 

  • Sun flashes its plans for solid-state disk drives

    Sun says it will support solid-state flash disk drives in its server and non-OEM storage product lines in the second half of this year. 

  • Storage Decisions Chicago 2008 Session Downloads

    Download all the sessions that were presented to storage professionals at the recent Storage Decisions 2008 conference in Chicago on topics including DR, SANs, backup, storage virtualization, storage management and green storage. 

  • BitMicro unveils 1 TB solid-state flash disk drive

    SCSI flash disk drive squeezes 1.6 TB into 3.5-inch form factor; HP retools MSA disk arrays; Carbonite spruces up data backup SaaS. 

  • SAN using 2.5-inch SAS disks hits market

    Infortrend unveils an array using 2.5-inch SAS disks. With 2.5-inch SAS disks making their way into small storage subsystems, they could reach enterprise arrays by 2009. 

  • IBM restructures server, storage hardware sales

    Andy Monshaw remains in charge of storage technical product development after IBM restructuring; Double-Take grabs CDP vendor TimeSpring; Hitachi Global Storage Technologies releases 0.5TB 2.5-inch notebook drive and OEM partner ASUS plans to combine...