Sun to double tape speed and capacity
Sun is working on a fourth generation of its 9840 fast-access tape format that will offer 75GB native capacity, nearly double the current 9840C's 40GB.
Stories by Chris Mellor
Make way for the terabyte laptop drive
Seagate plans to increase disk capacity by a factor of ten with new technology it has just patented, meaning your computer hard drive could soon be storing as much as a terabyte.
IBM hopes to Eclipse anti-Aperi group
IBM is placing Aperi, its open-source storage management group, under indirect industry authorization. Aperi will join the Eclipse Foundation, the generic open source community. There will be a formal relationship with the storage networking industry organisation (SNIA).
Sun starts storage standards war
Sun has left Aperi, the IBM-led open source storage management initiative, causing a big fracture in the world of storage standards.
Mobile Vista to require hybrid disks
Microsoft's mobile Vista will encourage notebook users to change to hybrid hard drives, which combine spinning disk and flash memory, according to a Microsoft requirements' document.
Kazeon gets cozy with Google
Kazeon has delivered on its deal with Google to open up its IS12000 information classification index up to Google searches.
Hitachi Data Systems goes big for its archive silo
Hitachi Data Systems has launched its Content Archiving Platform (CAP) for archiving both structured and unstructured data on disk. It does not use content-addressed storage (CAS) technology like Centera and Centera's imitators.
Sun braces itself for downsizing
Sun is about to re-structure according to signs emerging today. Sun's returned CFO, Michael Lehman, has told analysts: "We are now ready to resize the company," and state officials in Massachusetts have been informed that 50 jobs will go over the next few months.
Crosswalk launches storage grid
Crosswalk, the data protection management vendor, has introduced its grid storage product. The iGrid 5100 comes as two to eight nodes sitting between Fibre Channel-connected storage and gigabit Ethernet-connected servers. The servers see a single virtualized NAS resource. The nodes operate together to present the storage as a single global shared pool up to 4 exabytes in size. Accessing servers can use either NFS or the Windows CIFS protocol to access files.
Dell pushes SAS to the mainstream
As well as moving to AMD chips Dell has added serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drives to its storage offering. It has announced direct-attach PowerVault MD1000 arrays, the first from a mainstream vendor to use 3.5 inch serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives. Customers can achieve up to 400 percent more bandwidth with 3.5-inch SAS drives versus traditional SCSI drives.
IBM to add encrypting to tape drive
IBM is going to add an encryption facility to its TS1120 tape drive as part of its latest Z9 mainframe introduction. The TS1120 uses IBM's proprietary 3592 format. This is a mainframe-class tape drive and stores either 100 GB or 500 GB depending upon cartridge type.
Emulex gets to heart of the SAN
Emulex is buying intelligent storage processor vendor Aarohi for US$39 million, to get access to technology used in the heart of storage area network (SAN) fabrics.
EMC overhauls backup offerings
EMC has upgraded its disk-based backup offerings. One improves its Clariion-based virtual tape library (VTL). Another provides new AX150-based products to small business for general data protection and also Exchange backup.
Holographic disk hits 300GB mark
Holographic storage developer InPhase has stored holographic data at 200Gbits per square inch, much higher than any other optical format.
Revivio automates application protection and recovery
Revivio is adding automated, application-aware, continuous protection and recovery to its existing CPS (Continuous Protection System) product. The CPS appliance continuously backs up a storage system to a recovery server with every write to the storage system's disk time-stamped. This means it can be recovered to any point in time and not just the last backup or snapshot which could be hours or days before the event necessitating the restore.