Storage Breaking News

EMC targets SMBs, branch offices with new low-end storage
EMC goes after small businesses and branch offices with a lower-cost Celerra storage system. More..

LG to launch consumer, SOHO NAS system at IFA
LG is targeting home and small-office/home-office (SOHO) users with a network-attached storage (NAS) server that it plans to introduce at this week's IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. More..

Consumer electronics expo kicks off in Berlin
Europe's biggest consumer-electronics show, the Internationale Funkausstellung, kicks off in Berlin this week More..

Storage market thrives in down economy
Worldwide disk storage shipments will double in capacity every two years through 2012, IDC predicts. More..

Adtran switches on SMBs
Adtran rolled out a series of Ethernet switches for the SMB market that are more power efficient, higher density and Wi-Fi "friendly" than previous generation platforms. More..

Microsoft completes Small Business Server 2008, preps for November launch
Microsoft Friday said it has completed development on Small Business Server 2008 and that the software will hit its targeted ship date of Nov. 12. More..

Intel sees future with shape-shifting robots, wireless power
The intelligence gap between man and machine will largely close by the year 2050, according to Intel's chief technology officer, who yesterday reiterated that point during a keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum. More..

Going virtual raises storage-management, procurement issues
With storage virtualization coming on strong in the enterprise, here are five issues to think about before deploying. More..

Rackable Systems divests,; Nexan adds SMB NAS device; IBM releases XIV clustered storage
Today, we have storage news from Rackable Systems, which is dropping its RapidScale storage product; Nexsan, which unveiled The Edge SMB storage system; and IBM, which released its XIV clustered storage system.  More..

IBM commits $300 million to disaster recovery build-out
IBM is investing $300 million to build 13 cloud storage centers designed for disaster recovery. More..

IT managers choose SSDs over hard disks
IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives) and they help reduce the electric bill. More..

IBM's XIV storage lacks high-end features, analyst says
IBM's first XIV product lacks some high-end features and comes in only one configuration. More..

IBM integrates FilesX acquisition; announces FastBack CDP
Following on the heels of its FilesX acquisition, IBM is rolling out software that gives customers continuous data protection for applications, databases and file servers. More..

Fidelity looks to virtualize, standardize data center resources
A huge server virtualization project, targeting both x86 and high-end RISC servers, is underway at Fidelity Investments, as the nation's largest mutual fund company focuses on creating a more streamlined and adaptive IT infrastructure better able to serve the needs of more than 40,000 employees and 24 million individual and corporate customers. More..

Lenovo adds quad-core laptop to ThinkPad line
Lenovo on Tuesday added some power to its venerable ThinkPad line, launching a laptop with a quad-core processor that could be its highest-performing notebook to date. More..

Planning for Disaster - Houston-style, Part 2
Early Sunday morning late last month, specialty chemical company Champion Technologies failed back its data center to its Houston headquarters and I was a fly-on-the-wall during the process. Originally disabled by power being down in its headquarters building, Champion had to execute a disaster recovery drill and failover its data center operations to a site in Scottsdale, Ariz. That failover occurred Friday evening. All operations, which started at 6 p.m. were completed at 11 p.m. that night - five hours later. More..

iSCSI, flash storage highlight overhaul of EMC's mid-range Clariion system
EMC embraces iSCSI and flash storage for midrange market with new Clariion system. More..

Sun calls for SSD companies to unite on standards
Players in the solid-state drive industry need to unite and establish an umbrella organization that establishes standards that define the technology, like its performance, a Sun executive said on Monday. More..

MIT: Solar power storage discovery could mean energy nirvana
Researchers at MIT say they've made an energy storage breakthrough that could transform solar power from an alternative to a mainstream energy source. The university is calling the solar project a major advancement in energy research. More..

Nintendo might solve storage issue with holograms
It might sound more Star Trek: The Next Generation than video games, but Nintendo is apparently looking into the growing field of holographic storage to solve the Wii storage issue. More..

10 data storage companies to watch
These 10 storage start-ups could be the industry's next big innovators. More..

Trade group, U.S. officials rally for free trade
Free-trade agreements with other countries will create demand for U.S. products overseas and create more U.S. jobs, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and others said at a Thursday rally. More..

Iron Mountain talks off-site storage, including in caves
A Q&A with Iron Mountain executive John Clancy about remote storage and the impact of government regulations. More..

Watch out Cisco: Here comes Brocade/Foundry
Brocade's proposed $3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks this week would create a stronger data center competitor to Cisco while raising the stakes even higher for other Ethernet switch companies. More..

Stolen tape puts Bristol-Myers employee data at risk
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. officials last week confirmed that a non-encrypted backup tape containing the personal data of current and former-employees and their dependents was stolen June 4 from a delivery truck carrying the device. More..