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What is Western Digital’s OptiNAND?

Among the announcements Western Digital made at its HDD Re/Imagine event on Sept. 1, OptiNAND stood out. At first glance, it appears that Western...

Thinking Beyond the Sticker Price: Best Practices for Evaluating Flash and Disk Storage Economics

Storage economics used to be easy. First you figured out how much capacity you required. Then you calculated which solution would provide that...

Startup to virtualize memory and share it across servers

RNA Networks says the virtualization of memory removes latency penalties that affect application performance, and that its technology is already being used by a multi-billion dollar global hedge fund to speed up the processing of trades

Sun collapses in the storage market

Sun is falling behind in the storage market, according to the latest market report from Gartner. In an external controller-based market that has grown 11 percent in the past 12 months, Sun's share has dived by 17.4 percent.

HP readies to revamp storage

Hewlett-Packard is expected to revitalize its storage family with the introduction of a slew of products designed to give customers more flexibility in storing data center and remote-office information. The company says the announcements will constitute its most important storage launch ever and signal that it is ready to erase its mistakes of the past.

Western Canada computing grid up and running

A project valued at $48 million to unite supercomputing installations at four universities in western Canada has been completed, WestGrid announced this week.

Briefs

In its first decline since 1998, the disk storage systems hardware market in the U.S. fell by...

Tape storage still the best backup solution

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), as well as improved tape formats such as Super DLT (digital linear tape), move tape storage technology forward.

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