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• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.

• Big data - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 19 September, 2011 10:12

  According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).

• The evolution of hard disk drives

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 January, 2011 13:22

  A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks

• Delorean hard drive is perfect for time machine

  By Chris Brandrick | 30 November, 2010 12:16

  Attention all Back To The Future fans: If you're in the market for a new hard drive, then the folks over at Flash Rods have something just for you. Flash Rods latest, known as the Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive, contains a 500GB Seagate drive within the chassis of the much-loved Delorean from the Back To The Future trilogy.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• Beauty shots: Technology to drool over

  By Anne B. McDonald | 29 July, 2010 15:24

  Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

• Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

  By John E Dunn | 23 July, 2010 00:08

  Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.

• A jolly storage strategy

  By Tom S. Noda | 02 July, 2010 07:16

  Simplifying IT storage management at fast food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is something that can be considered a "jolly strategy," with all the millions of cash saved yearly on maintenance alone.

• Microsoft Sidekick Debacle & the Cloud: Lessons Learned

  By Bernard Golden | 16 October, 2009 05:17

  When Microsoft's storage service for Sidekick users broke down, cloud computing questions sprang up -- both fair and unfair.

• Samsung shrinks SSDs for netbooks

  By Agam Shah | 23 June, 2009 11:41

  Samsung on Monday introduced solid-state drives (SSDs) for netbooks that are smaller than traditional SSDs and consume significantly less power.

• Lost hard drive and other government data blunders

  By JR Raphael | 21 May, 2009 10:16

  The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President.