Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to release the industry's first DAT USB 2.0 tape drives for servers next month, the company announced Monday. Aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMBs), the move is part of an ongoing HP strategy to make storage products for data backup easier to use.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) will next month begin shipping its first drive that supports the new 4G-bps (bits per second) Fiber Channel interface standard, it said Wednesday. The Ultrastar 15K147 drive, which HGST said is the industry's first to support the interface, will be available in sample quantities to system vendors for testing from June, said Sam Sawyer, a senior advisor at HGST's product planning and strategy department.
A new standard for storage area networks is about to be approved which could be a godsend for firms struggling to find the funds for a full storage management upgrade.
Despite an uneven economy, the growth of data from Web services and rich media continues to drive technology spending on storage and the networks required to share stored information across an enterprise.
Despite an uneven economy, the growth of data from Web services and rich media continues to drive technology spending on storage and the networks required to share stored information across an enterprise. The result: Companies are constantly searching for better technology to manage that information. John Parkinson, chief technology officer at Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLP, spoke with Computerworld last week about information overload and the increased complexity it brings to the enterprise.