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Seagate Hard at Work on World’s First 3TB Drive

Seagate isn't broadcasting it yet, but the world's largest disk drive-making company is moving ever closer to demonstrating the world's first 3TB hard drive...

Toshiba Finds Itself on a NAND Flash Market Hot Streak

iSuppli, the smart Southern California-based IT analyst, tells us that the market landscape in NAND flash arena is changing.Toshiba, which invented NAND flash in...

EMC Offers ‘New Onramp’ for Building Private Storage Clouds

You'd think data storage nowadays would be as simple as loading it all on an on-site disk, uploading it to a cloud site or...

LSI Ships Its First Array Powered by 6Gb/s SAS

LSI, which doesn't get the storage industry notoriety that some of its competitors seem to attract, nonetheless is one of the most significant storage...

EMC-Cisco-Intel Startup Acadia Picks Former HP CEO as CEO

Back on Nov. 3, 2009, Cisco Systems, VMware, EMC and Intel formed the Acadia shared-equity startup in order to create and market modular cloud...

How to Use Data Center History to Your Business Advantage

The Station long has been a student of history. Count me among those who believe that for us to continue to evolve and improve...

Say It Ain’t So: Sony to Discontinue Making Floppy Disks

Funny, The Station had thought the floppy disk was put to sleep back in the early days of the George Dubya Bush administration. Guess...

Gear6 Reportedly Shutting Down Operations

This doesn't happen very often in the bustling storage hardware and storage-related software businesses, but The Station received tips April 23 from several reliable...

Even Martial Arts Fighters Need Good Storage Systems

There is an amazingly random thread of things going on here at Storage Station. For example, did you know that even martial arts fighters...

Nexenta Signs ZFS Co-creator for Its Advisory Board

Nexenta, a fast-rising provider of open storage software based on the Sun Microsystems-developed Zettabyte File System , announced that Bill Moore, the co-creator of...