http://www.eweek.com Data Storage - RSS Feeds en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:40:53 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:40:53 -0400 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:48:16 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Five-Continuing-Trends-in-Data-Storage-405837/?kc=rss - Data storage historically has been thought of as a solid, super-important but not-very-exciting sector of IT. Well, quot;not-very-exciting quot; is a value judgment made strictly in the mind of the beholder, and storage certainly is not a newsless valley in the overall IT landscape. New products...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Five-Continuing-Trends-in-Data-Storage-405837/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:31:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Nirvanix-Storing-Archived-Photos-from-NASA-Lunar-Orbiter-in-the-Cloud-185740/?kc=rss - As NASA begins looking for potential sites for new moon bases, enterprise cloud storage provider Nirvanix is doing its part to hold and protect thousands of digital images that will comprise moon-mapping history. As the archiver of new high-definition digital photos of the moon that will begi...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Nirvanix-Storing-Archived-Photos-from-NASA-Lunar-Orbiter-in-the-Cloud-185740/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:14:49 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Implement-a-Solid-Business-Continuity-Disaster-Recovery-Plan/?kc=rss - There are many types of disasters that can jeopardize a business and its employees. The type of disaster a business encounters will determine which actions that business must take. If there is a fire or a disaster that is a danger to the building, for example, then you must first evacuate the e...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Implement-a-Solid-Business-Continuity-Disaster-Recovery-Plan/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:36:33 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/High-Court-Rejects-Hollywoods-Appeal-of-RSDVR-Service-465095/?kc=rss - The Supreme Court refused June 29 to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that permits Cablevision to offer remote digital video recording. The service allows consumers to record, store and playback recordings on computer servers maintained by Cablevision instead of DVRs owned by customers. ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/High-Court-Rejects-Hollywoods-Appeal-of-RSDVR-Service-465095/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:56:20 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/EMC-Again-Raises-the-Stakes-in-Data-Domain-Deal-247679/?kc=rss - EMC waited until the close of the business day June 26 to extend its $1.8 billion cash offer to snatch midrange storage provider Data Domain away from its original suitor, NetApp. The world's largest external disk storage provider wants to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain common ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/EMC-Again-Raises-the-Stakes-in-Data-Domain-Deal-247679/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:36:26 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Survey-of-IT-Execs-Virtualization-No-Panacea-for-Data-Recovery-832514/?kc=rss - Three-quarters of IT executives surveyed believe virtualization by itself can play a major role in an enterprise disaster recovery plan, but it in no way represents a complete answer to a DR strategy, according to a quot;State of Disaster Recovery quot; survey released June 25 by market researcher ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Survey-of-IT-Execs-Virtualization-No-Panacea-for-Data-Recovery-832514/?kc=rss Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:22:21 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-SanDisk-32GB-Flash-Card-Can-Handle-HD-Video-282962/?kc=rss - SanDisk, which makes and sells more Flash memory cards for digital cameras than anybody else, on June 24 unveiled what it claims is the world's fastest 32GB card -- one that has both the capacity and I/O speed to handle HD video clips. SanDisk's Extreme SDHC card features a sustained writ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-SanDisk-32GB-Flash-Card-Can-Handle-HD-Video-282962/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:38:12 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Toshiba-Launches-PostcardSize-HDD-with-Backup-Encryption-194195/?kc=rss - With companies such as Seagate, Synology, Cisco Systems, Rebit, FalconStor, Iomega and several others elbowing each other in the desktop personal storage market with inexpensive yet capacious machines, it seems as if there is little room for another competitor. No worries. Turns out there's pl...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Toshiba-Launches-PostcardSize-HDD-with-Backup-Encryption-194195/?kc=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:00:51 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/LSI-Provides-HPC-Storage-for-Swiss-Supercomputer-392444/?kc=rss - The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Manno, Switzerland, announced June 22 that it has upgraded its current Cray XT3 supercomputer to an even faster Cray XT5 system, and that it selected LSI to handle the massive storage requirement. The announcement was made on the opening day of the ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/LSI-Provides-HPC-Storage-for-Swiss-Supercomputer-392444/?kc=rss Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:52:40 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Seagate-Launches-Three-More-SMBtype-Storage-Devices-206637/?kc=rss - Following its corporate upheaval in January, Seagate Technology has made it clear that it wants to own the branded small office/home office storage market and not simply be known as the world's largest supplier of spinning disk drives to other manufacturers. Seagate on June 22 expanded its growin...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Seagate-Launches-Three-More-SMBtype-Storage-Devices-206637/?kc=rss Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:04:49 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Prevent-Orphaned-Data-during-Work-Force-Turnover/?kc=rss - Within the last six months alone, hundreds of thousands of employees have been laid off from their jobs. Each one of those departing workers may have left behind important business data, applications or intellectual property orphaned on desktops, remote workstations, mobile laptops or PDAs. Leg...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Prevent-Orphaned-Data-during-Work-Force-Turnover/?kc=rss Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:32:22 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Massive-Storage-Arrays-Help-DreamWorks-Make-Digital-Movie-Magic-618344/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Massive-Storage-Arrays-Help-DreamWorks-Make-Digital-Movie-Magic-618344/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:17 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Alfresco-ParaScale-Team-Up-for-ContentasaService-in-the-Cloud-806749/?kc=rss - Cloud storage startup ParaScale and open-source content management provider Alfresco Software announced June 17 that they have teamed up to produce an integrated cloud-based enterprise content management package that utilizes both companies' software on the same hardware. The two companies ar...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Alfresco-ParaScale-Team-Up-for-ContentasaService-in-the-Cloud-806749/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:45:24 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Eight-Things-to-Consider-Before-Moving-Your-Storage-Backup-to-the-Cloud-460935/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Eight-Things-to-Consider-Before-Moving-Your-Storage-Backup-to-the-Cloud-460935/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:40:20 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Hitachi-Adds-New-Efficiency-Features-to-Storage-Software-654240/?kc=rss - Data storage now is all about efficiency: getting the most out of existing systems by using all available capacity and avoiding storage bloat that can be both costly and ineffective. Hitachi Data Systems, which has been quiet on the new-products front lately, on June 17 introduced some new fe...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Hitachi-Adds-New-Efficiency-Features-to-Storage-Software-654240/?kc=rss