By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
EMC's revenue grew 18 percent in the second quarter ended June 30, a result the company attributed to massive growth in the data enterprises need to store. read more »
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
Brocade Communications Systems' planned US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks is a major strategic move in a brewing war over the future of data-center connectivity, industry analysts said Tuesday. read more »
Apple's MobileMe online service continued to tick off customers Monday as users blasted the service for outages that have kept them from accessing e-mail for several days. read more »
By Howard Dahdah, Computerworld Australia 21 Jul, 2008
A systems failure at Amazon's S3 hosted storage service this morning has affected a host of Web 2.0 applications such as Twitter and SumgMug, which are dependent on it for the delivery of their applications. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 16 Jul, 2008
If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications. read more »
Both IBM and Sun this week claim to have developed the "first one terabyte storage tape drive," but Sun will get its drive on the market a little bit sooner than IBM. read more »
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 15 Jul, 2008
Lenovo will start including SSDs (solid-state drives) as a storage option in more laptops to meet increasing user demand, a company official said. read more »
You need a lot of storage when you're snapping 100,000 photographs every half hour for nearly four years. That's the task ahead for NASA's Kepler Mission, which after launching in February 2009 will search for Earth-size planets by taking images of 100,000 solar systems over and over again through 2012. read more »
Businesses last year spent approximately US$1.3 billion to make sure that spinning hard disk drives did not overheat and kept running despite being squeezed to near-capacity limits, according to IDC. read more »
In Johannesburg (or Jozi), street lights work and are obeyed; the computerized system has cracked down on all errant motorist until they have all towed the line. I even commented to a friend that we need such a computerized system in Kenya, but we have to get rid of the thugs who carjack motorists at night before we can obey lights at night. read more »
