U.S. television network Turner Entertainment Networks has its lenses focused on holographic storage for the future of storing and retrieving its movies, cartoons and commercial spots. The network giant has completed a test of the cutting-edge storage technology, which it said will soon move the company away from tape
Relatively inexpensive secondary disk storage is gaining a significant foothold in corporate data centers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT managers due to be released next month. But the survey also shows that a majority of data is still backed up and archived the traditional way: on tape devices.
Intelligent storage switches, which are being developed by several start-up vendors, could solve the problem of how to manage distributed storage devices.