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Seagate: World's First 3TB Storage Device Now Shipping

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was touting its 2GB GoFlex drives. It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected. - At this rate, 4GB storage devices are only another few months away, a veteran storage analyst told eWEEK. Hard drive and storage device maker Seagate Technology announced June 29 that has made available the industry's first 3TB desktop storage device, a new version of its popular FreeAgent GoFlex...

New Data Center Wares Unveiled by Dell

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade servers, a PowerEdge rack-mount server, and a new series of Juniper Networks-built PowerConnect switching/routing gateways. - Dell, keeping a literal open mind about all things data center, June 9 introduced a bevy of new open-standards servers, storage and networking equipment for older enterprise IT systems that might need refreshing. A list of new storage, server, virtualization and support services also were made avai...

Mainframes Still Important to the Enterprise

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:40:53 -0400

CA recently polled 100 technology executives at companies that use IBM System z mainframes. They reported that their loyalty to mainframe technology stems from its ability to meet requirements for reliability, resilience, security, management, and compliance.

See also: The Mainframe Career Option. - ...

New World Storage Order

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:35:42 -0400

IT managers will have to decide whether to adopt storage virtualization or NAS clusters. - Theres an odd thing happening in the land of storage these days. Vendors have come up with so many different answers to increasing storage utilization rates that entire divisions within some companies are competing with each other. At the root of the conflicting approaches to the next generation ...

NetApp: Young Company, Mature IT

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:40:03 -0400

NetApp strengthens its IT organization and creates a three-year strategic plan to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business. - NetApp entered the high-technology scene in 1992, offering storage and data management solutions. Since then, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has grown substantially each year, forcing it to quickly adopt information technology practices that are more common in mature organizations. �We have...

Media Group to Create New Digital Video Ecosystem

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:04:46 -0400

The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, and consumer electronics and information technology companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is working on a "uniform digital media experience" but won't announce details until the Consumer Electronics Show. The consortium said it will call for interoperability of devices and websites, and usage rules that allow consumers to copy content onto household playback devices and to burn their content to physical media. - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of media industry companies said it is planning to build a digital world where video devices and content websites play together in perfect harmony, and consumers can safely store their digital content and access it anywhere in the world. The consortium of Hollywo...

Google Cuts How Long it Stores Users Personal Data

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:00:51 -0400

Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that duration to nine months. Until a year-and-a-half ago, Google had kept personally identifiable information about its Web users on company computers for an indefinite amount of time, according to a Microsoft executive. - MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc has halved the amount of time it stores personal data gathered from its users' Web surfing habits, a move aimed at improving its privacy policies, a company official said. Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that dura...

Jobs Unveils Thinnest iPod from Apple

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:56:12 -0400

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a curved aluminum and glass nano -- the best-selling iPod -- for $149 with 8 gigabytes of storage, $50 less than the predecessor model, and a 16-gigabyte version for $199, with up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video. He also rolled out a thinner, $229 version of the Internet-connecting iPod touch with rounded edges and 8 gigabytes of storage. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A thin and smiling Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs launched a much thinner, curved iPod nano music player and joked about the state of his much-discussed health on Tuesday. But shares of Apple fell more than 4 percent after the presentation, which had no major sur...

IBM Reworks Storage Strategy

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:31:23 -0400

IBM is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment over the last three years involving thousands of IBM researchers and eight acquisitions of data storage start-ups. Even as the economy slows and businesses move to slash spending on computers and network gear, sales of storage will continue to spiral -- at least until someone invents a way for companies to stop collecting so much data, analysts say. - SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations. The company is announ...

Best Practices in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:34:08 -0400

IT manager: Hurricane, tropical storm, and natural disaster season is here. Learn how to have a disaster recovery plan for business continuity with the appropriate storage and backup strategies. Disaster recovery should be looked at not just in terms of business continuity and applications availability, but also for compliance reasons. - Its every IT managers worst nightmare: the call from the CEO to evacuate the data center because of a hurricane or other emergency. Thats what happened to John Chaffe, IT director of New Orleans-based Tidewater Marine, the morning before Hurricane Katrina hit, and he ended up driving critical server...

Online Backup: What You need to Know

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:09:44 -0400

Before you choose a SaaS, in the cloud hosted service or other online backup technology to protect and store your backup data, be sure to ask these key data storage questions: How much data will be stored? How fast do you need the data up and running? What makes up the data repositories? What kinds of data compression techniques will be used? - Cloud computing is all the rage, and dozens of vendors from Amazon to Iron Mountain offer some sort of online storage service for personal and enterprise use. The advantage is that you are using a hosted service, running somewhere on the Internet, and have automatic off-site data protection with few...

Free Backup Utilities and Desktop Storage Tools

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:44:05 -0400

Storage and backup applications are among the most critical in any major corporation. Because missing or corrupted backups tend to show up only when someone needs to use them to recover from some data disaster, there's not much room for error. Lost data equals lost revenue and possibly legal liability, if the lost data are relevant to the financial performance of the company. - Corporate backup and storage apps are serious, expensive and rigorously tested both before release and after installation. What we have here is a list of the most effective free storage and backup utilities, which are designed more to help you recover data that's important to you, not necess...

Libraries Step into the Age of iPod

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:53:59 -0400

Library branches in Phoenix have banded together to create a digital library that currently has about 50,000 titles of e-books, audiobooks, music and videos that can be "checked out" from anywhere. - NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player -- and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, ...

Document and Records Management Still Lags

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:06:01 -0400

A new study appears to point to the challenges of managing unstructured data, as in electronic document and records management, in the enterprise. - Enterprises are still struggling to manage their unstructured information effectively despite a high penetration rate of enterprise content management solutions, according to the results of a new study released by Butler Group last week. Written by Butler Group analyst Sue Clarke, �Document and ...

Preparing for an E-Discovery Showdown

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:01:49 -0400

Discovery in legal cases may require a whole lot more of your company's stored data than you know. And it's your boss, the CIO, who will be responsible for making that data available to the legal team. Here are some tips for mitigating the electronic discovery chain. - As a buzzword, quot;e-discovery quot; doesn't have much flash, but it does have plenty of substance #9472;as those involved with litigation have discovered. Because so much corporate communication and information is stored in digital form, being able to retrieve that data quickly and afforda...