Industry voice: Debunking the 3 most common flash myths
Flash is becoming pervasive in today’s digital economy. In our personal lives, flash helps ensure we are never waiting for websites to load, never waiting to play our favourite games, watch movies or...
View ArticleSanDisk announces 4TB enterprise SAS SSD
SanDisk has announced the world’s first 4TB SAS Solid State Drive (SSD) for the enterprise market. The 2.5-inch Optimus MAX comes in only a 4TB model, with a SAS 6Gb/s interface, up to 400MB...
View ArticleToshiba tackles cloud workloads with 5TB enterprise drive
Two months after it unveiled its first 5TB hard disk drives, Toshiba has announced a new range of HDDs that has been designed with "bulk storage systems and servers that support cloud-based...
View ArticleIndustry voice: What do smartphones and hybrid storage have in common?
Mobile telephones have been an invaluable tool for some time and when personal digital assistants (PDAs) started to appear on the market, they drove a whole new level of productivity. However, when...
View ArticleIndustry voice: Why flash storage may not be right for you
What customers want at the moment is all about flash SSD drives. The high speed, dazzling performance of flash is a big attraction to any organisation looking for better performance in its datacentre....
View ArticleIndustry voice: Is tape the best way of storing data?
Energy consumption is taking up an increasing proportion of the overall datacentre running costs. Not surprising, considering that the amount of business-critical data is ever on the rise and new...
View ArticleCOMPUTEX 2014: Intel launches a line of solid-state drives designed to better...
Intel will launch a line of solid-state drives (SSDs) designed to improve performance over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), the company said June 3. The Intel Solid-State Drive Data Center Family...
View ArticleToshiba’s OCZ acquisition: what it means for both companies
In January 2014, Japanese giant Toshiba made a move for Silicon Valley’s OCZ Technology Group, snapping up the firm’s assets and launching a new subsidiary, OCZ Storage Solutions, in the process. With...
View ArticleBeating bottlenecks amid the big data deluge
What is a storage bottleneck? And how can you avoid it? Thomas Pavel, EMEA Storage Sales Director at Avago Technologies, told us about the strains caused by the data deluge and how your organisation...
View ArticleGetting Ready for the Software-Defined Data Center
The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is at an early stage in its development but software and hardware vendors are already lining up to sell you SDDC products. EMC recently released its Federation...
View ArticleIndustry voice: The hidden risks in consumer-grade storage components
Finding the most appropriate and balanced way to improve storage performance is a major focus for many organisations. But even once that hurdle has been overcome, there are more challenges to be...
View ArticleIndustry voice: The hidden ways to improve your storage: the IT manager’s...
Confronted with ever increasing amounts of data, IT departments have never been more challenged to find greater capacity and higher resilience in less time and under budget. IT managers are battling...
View ArticleInterview: World could ‘run out of storage capacity’ within two years warns...
Mark Whitby, Seagate VP for branded products group, walks us through the fascinating world of storage, warning us of the dangers of not producing enough data and introducing us to the concept of the...
View ArticleInterview: World could "run out of storage capacity" within 2 years warns...
Seagate VP for branded products group, Mark Whitby, walks us through the fascinating world of storage, warning us of the dangers of not producing enough data and introducing us to the concept of the...
View ArticleIndustry voice: Is there a perfect balance of performance and capacity for...
Introduction Despite storage being the foundation on which all data and applications reside, some people say working in the storage industry can be a thankless task at times, and the work often goes...
View ArticleWhich hard drive is the best? Here’s a clue
Cloud storage company BackBlaze has published the second edition of its annual hard drive failure report which analyses, dissects and determines the failure rates for spinning HDDs it purchased. Many...
View ArticleInterview: The data capacity gap: why the world is running out of data storage
We spoke to Mark Whitby, Senior Vice President, Branded Products Group at Seagate Technology, EMEA, about data and the future of storage, and the impact of the rapidly onrushing global data capacity...
View ArticleIndustry voice: How flash storage is changing the way we live and work today
At the beginning of 2014, there was a lot of chatter about it being the year for the enterprise storage industry, with many commentators using "phenomenal" as their preferred description. However, it...
View ArticleARM gathers momentum with Gigabyte server launch
Gigabyte has announced that it will launch server solutions based on ARM processors from AppliedMicro and Annapurna Labs. Last year the company used the Computex expo to announce its intention to use...
View ArticleUpdated: Top 9 best internal desktop and laptop hard disk drives
Introduction and drives 1-4 What’s the best hard drive you can buy? Your hard drive is out of date if its capacity is measured in Gigabytes. Even a Terabyte of space can seem cramped when you’re...
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