• 60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016

  The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to an IHS iSuppli storage space market report published Monday.

• EMC unveils slew of product upgrades, new VMAX array

  At its annual user conference today, EMC announced upgrades across most of its major product lines, including a new high-end Symmetrix VMAX array with up to 4PB capacity and twice the performance of its predecessor.

• New mobile DRAM standard for 4G networks offers 50% performance boost

  The specification for the next generation of mobile DRAM was published Thursday, offering a 50% performance boost for makers of the memory technology.

• EMC buys flash-array start-up XtremIO

  Advancing its roadmap toward increased use of flash storage, EMC today announced that it has purchased start-up all-flash array maker XtremIO.

• Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

  If you want to speed up your PC but don't want to deal with a new hybrid hard drive, one way is to simply add an SSD cache drive to your PC. These drives aren't meant to be mass storage devices; instead, they cache your most frequent application operations and thereby improve performance.

• Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box

  Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.

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