Seagate Backup Plus
Seagate’s new line of lightweight external hard drives lets you back up both local and online data
Western Digital bounces back with a vengeance
WD recaptures disk-drive market lead from Seagate
Physician robot to begin making rounds
The robot can be controlled by an iPad and can make hospital rounds while the doctor observes remotely
Dell storage blades target the data centre
The new blade arrays can be combined with blade servers and switches in a single chassis
Body Area Networks could become the next big market
It frees up hospital bandwidth, untethers patients and could be the biggest market of all
Seagate to buy external drive maker LaCie
LaCie CEO would run Seagate’s consumer storage division
EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO
XtremIO joins a long list of flash products offered by EMC
EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs
It also plans an open-source initiative around Greenplum
Diskeeper changes name, announces new product direction
Condusiv to focus on data optimization, recovery technology
Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead
Drive prices expected to remain high through 2012 as flood effects continue
Windows Server 8 to be storage-focused OS
It will offer RDMA over Ethernet and InfiniBand, should cut Patch Tuesday downtime, execs say
SSDs have a ‘bleak’ future, researchers say
The performance gap between HDDs and SSDs will shrink
Hard drive prices to remain high through 2014
Inventories won’t be back to normal until later this year
EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages
VMware will announce upgrades to all of its products
Hard drive makers slash warranties
Some Seagate warranties were shortened Dec. 31, and Western Digital followed suit last week