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Directory of Online Storage Services April 7, 2008

Posted by the Editor in : Online Storage , 4 comments

Web based services are now more than ever taking off, adoption of them is booming and rightly so, from image hosting like Flikr, to online web based office apps like Thin Office and GDocs, word processors and spreadsheets. As a result, the online storage industry is experiencing positive growth.

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WD shipping Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5in HD’s March 26, 2008

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Western Digital announced today that it is now shipping in volume its WD Caviar® SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drives based on 320 GB-per-platter technology — a platform that it has been shipping since January 2008 and is serving as the foundation of all of the company’s 3.5-inch drive families.

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Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption March 1, 2008

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Windows Vista, BitLocker, MacOS XFileVault, and Linux dm-crypt disk encryption have been beaten by Ed Felten and eight colleagues and they released a significant new research results documenting it.

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Enterprises creating storage nightmare November 6, 2007

Posted by the Editor in : Compliance, Disaster Recovery, ILM , 3 comments

There are very few organizations managing information content well, it is still an ad hoc affair creating “the storage nightmare of the future” according to Phil Sargeant, a vice president at research firm Gartner Inc.

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DOD rolls out massive storage network

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The U.S. Department of Defense is finishing the deployment of a storage backbone with more than 17,000 Fibre Channel switch ports to link disparate storage-area networks (SAN) and increase security and resiliency while lowering costs.

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EMC acquires Voyence

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EMC this week acquired Voyence in a brilliant move intended to broaden the company’s impact on managing the server, storage and network infrastructure.

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Seagate Releases Hybrid Drives October 31, 2007

Posted by the Editor in : Seagate, Hard Drives , 2 comments

After a long wait, Seagate has finally begun rolling out its new line of hyrbrid flash and magnetic disk hard drives, promising both performance increases and power savings for notebooks.

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Dell to Offer Solid State HD in Laptops April 30, 2007

Posted by the Editor in : Hard Drives, Solid State Drives , 3 comments

Dell announced it would install flash-based solid state HD’s with select laptops to ensure that those machines have lighter weight and higher durability.

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‘Small’ 5Mb Hard Disk in 1956 April 12, 2007

Posted by the Editor in : Hard Drives, History , 1 comment so far

Its a hard disk in 1956. The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).

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ZFS and caching for performance, findings by Mark Round April 6, 2007

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Mark Round of Digital Badger has posted a great overview of his initial findings, from work he’s done in a production environment, testing ZFS against UFS on some heavy Sun Microsystems iron ( and some smaller iron actually ).

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