Charles Cooper suggests that Dell should be listed to the current list of cloud based storage contenders (Google, Microsoft, and Apple). read more »
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James Niccolai writes, "The feature, called Elastic Block Store, allows developers to create a storage volume of between 1G byte and 1T byte and attach it to "instances" of applications running in Amazon's cloud. Developers can then detach the storage volume and use it later for other application instances and back it up to Amazon's S3 storage service if they need more durability." read more »
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James Rogers reports on the latest developments for Cleversafe - a distributed storage architect of software/hardware solutions. Cleversafe replaces the outmoded concept of RAID with more intelligent algorithms which allow for significant data failures without loss of data and without excessive redundancy in data. read more »
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Agam Shah talks about new Samsung and Microsoft talks that are focused on improving Windows Vista's support for SSD's by optimizing the OS to recognize and utilize non-rotating media. read more »
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"QNAP Systems today announced a 5-bay RAID NAS for SMB and Enterprise users." read more »
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User group brokers energy rebate deal between the storage and utility industries. Industry group Wikibon is bringing the utility and storage industries together in an attempt to drive down users` spiraling energy costs. read more »
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About a year ago, when major manufacturers made their first terabyte disk drives available to the public, a storage capacity barrier had been broken. Is it reliable? read more »
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James Rogers reports that Quantum missed analyst's financial projections for Q1 revenues. Apparently Quantum is going through a large refocusing. CEO Rick Belluzzo sees a positive future and blames most of the profit losses on tape sale decreases. read more »
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