Stories by Lucas Mearian

IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.

Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

Intel Monday started shipping its fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD), the first to use the SandForce (now LSI) SFI-2281 NAND flash controller , which promises 500MB/sec-plus performance.

Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.

Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system

Object-based storage vendor Cleversafe today announced the availability of a storage system that can house up to 10 exabytes (that's 1 billion gigabytes) of data in a single pool of capacity.

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

EMC CEO Joe Tucci today offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.

EMC's Tucci changes mind, to stay on as CEO into 2013

EMC CEO Joe Tucci has said he would honour a request from EMC's board and remain chairman and CEO into 2013.

IBM's Watson Advises at Cancer Center

IBM's Watson supercomputer is about to begin evaluating cancer treatment options that can be delivered to physicians in a matter of seconds.

Bank IT spending to be 'rocky' through 2013

IT spending by banks will grow to $173.3 billion this year, up just 2.8% over 2011 and well short of an earlier forecast that pegged growth at 4.3% in 2012, according to research firm Celent. In fact, IT spending in banking is expected to be weak over the next couple of years.

RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database

Online database repository provider RainStor today announced what it calls the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop.

Atlantis Computing promises diskless VDI

Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing today announced a new product that runs non-persistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.

IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

IBM has announced that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data.

Apple confirms acquisition of flash memory maker

Apple today confirmed that it has acquired Anobit Technologies, an Israeli maker of solid state drives for data centers, according to the Reuters news service.