Stories by Chris Mellor

Siemens fraud investigation deepens

The investigation into fraud at Siemens now involves as much as 200 million euros ($335 million AUD), ten times the liability previously admitted.

Fujitsu preps new dual-core servers

Fujitsu Siemens will launch a new line of servers next year using its new dual-core 90nm chip design, with a quad-core UltraSparc 64 VI+ due in 2008.

Tandberg unwinds tape killer

Tandberg Data has introduced a disk-based backup product with removable cartridges for small and medium businesses. It is cheaper and much faster than DAT-72, Travan or DLT tape drives.

HP offers All-in-One networked storage

HP has announced a new line of All-in-One (AiO) point-and-click style networked storage products built especially for the small and medium business market.

Next generation supercomputers face disk failure

The next generation of supercomputers could be crippled by hard drive failures every few minutes, the U.S. Department of Energy has warned, and so it is funding a Petascale Data Storage Institute to solve the problem.

Storage market faces open-source revolution

The storage market has become the latest to face the same open-source revolution, with a new product from Cleversafe offering secure, economical and private storage using a dispersed storage grid technology.

Molecular data storage demonstrated

IBM researchers in Zurich have devised a single molecule switch. It can be flipped between two detectable 'on' and 'off' states by applying voltage pulses to it. Both states are stable and data read-out is nondestructive. More than 500 switching cycles have been demonstrated by IBM's researchers, Heike Riel and Emanuel Lortscher.

BakBone claims disk space reporting breakthrough

BakBone has introduced centralized reporting for distributed NetVault backup jobs and a disk space analysis tool able to send file pick lists direct to NetVault. NetVault: Report Manager 3 has two modules to carry out these functions.

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