Stories about: HDS

Greenpeace has moved Apple up its green electronics rankings thanks to Steve Job's promises to phase out PVCs and other chemical nasties from its products, but the top spot goes to Nokia.

In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

Every IT person knows this painful truth: Attention from users for underlying IT operations is not always a good thing. This is especially true when an application or storage system has halted or slowed to a crawl because the infrastructure is not performing at an optimal level.

For every eight terabytes (TB) of usable disk capacity within the storage infrastructure, there is the potential to generate a million dollars in operating expense (Opex) savings, according to a 'storage economics' whitepaper.

Viral marketing is an incredibly powerful tool for companies to communicate their message to end users. Unlike other marketing campaigns where companies may rely on splashy ads and pithy sayings to communicate their message, viral marketing takes a more subtle approach to spread a company's message.

About a year ago Research in Motion, the folks who bring you the BlackBerry e-mail-on-the-go device, paid more than $US612 million to keep from being shut down by an injunction after being found guilty of patent infringement. A few months before the settlement, the U.S. Justice Department had filed a legal brief in the case asking for a delay in any shutdown to give the government time to develop a database of state and federal BlackBerry users (as many as 300,000 at the time) so that they could be exempted from disruption.

More than two years after Victoria's Human Services Directory (HSD) went live, the Department of Human Services has outlined its plans to extend the application's functionality with a new three-year contract beginning in 2008.

CSIRO's Business Enabling Technology Replacement (BETR) project has stalled with the science agency admitting original deadlines and budgets will not be met.

Solid state disk (SSD) has grabbed a lot of attention lately, but analysts say it's still a niche technology that is specialized, high-priced and far from ready to supplant the bedrock that is hard disk drives. But with the promise of rocket I/O performance, some users are ignoring the cost and plopping down the big bucks anyways.

Hitachi Data Systems and Sun have entered into an agreement for Sun to resell Hitachi's high-end storage array and virtualization platform, according to sources close to the agreement.

InPhase Technologies announced Monday it will start bulk shipments of the industry's first holographic disc drive this July in a format able to store 300GB of uncompressed data on a single platter. That capacity will expand to 1.6TB per disc within three years, the company said.