Huge increase in External disk storage shipments
Nearly 5 petabytes of capacity shipped
Cloud storage no threat to SMB NAS systems, survey shows
Only the smallest firms didn’t use NAS along with cloud services
Symantec unveils SaaS storage products
Company officials say firm also plans to announce three more cloud or virtualization products this summer
Iron Mountain going back to roots in storage services
Company changes direction, considers selling off digital business
iPad, iPhone get remote heart-monitoring app
Physicians can monitor a patient’s heart with near-real-time ECG readouts
Cisco releases security, network convergence upgrades for storage switches
All storage protocol traffic can now move over LAN and SAN
Is EMC ripe for the picking?
Dell doesn’t seem to have the finances to move up the data centre stack in one fell swoop, but Cisco doesrnrn
With Hitachi buy, Western Digital moves further ahead of rivals
Hitachi GST moves puts WD on top for the foreseeable futurernrn
If Dell buys Compellent, it loses EMC partnership
Dell will have a difficult time integrating Compellent’s technology into its portfolio
Hitachi launches first enterprise SSD line
The Ultrastar SSD line, built jointly with Intel, can achieve throughput of up to 535MB/sec
Did HP overpay for 3Par?
Analysts think HP will integrate 3Par with EDS’ services as a public cloud offeringrnrn
NAND flash memory pricing to plummet to $1 per GB
Drop in 3-bit-per-cell NAND flash will jumpstart SSD sales, says iSupplirnrn
Samsung unveils its densest 2TB desktop hard drive
The EcoGreen F4 hard drive is Samsung’s most eco-friendly model, meeting all RoHS requirementsrnrn
Greenplum buy puts EMC further into cloud, BI, businesses
Provider of massively parallel data warehouse platform gives EMC one more piece of cloud information management piernrn
Seagate releases first 3TB external desktop hard drive
The same drive can transfer files to Windows or Mac OS X machines