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Hard Drive Sales Up Despite Cooling Economy

How hot was the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2007? Pretty darn sizzling, despite the cooling U.S. economy, according to Southern California-based industry...

Teradata’s New DW Appliance Begets Wrath from Netezza

Data warehousing -- remember when that was a hot buzzphrase about seven years ago? -- remains a growing sector of IT data storage, and...

De-dupe Vendors: See ‘Drunken Data’ Online Quiz

Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners, writes a cliche-busting, skeptical, yet thoughtful storage blog. It's colorfully named DrunkenData.com.Toigo, who eschews the term "analyst," is...

Why Firefox 3.0 Beta Looks Like a Major Improvement

It took about four years of research and development, but it looks like the Mozilla developers have finally plugged most of the memory leaks...

Samplify’s Data Compression a Blessing for Storage

Samplify Systems, a real-time sampled data compression startup in Santa Clara, Calif., that solves I/O bottlenecks, has an interesting, second-generation take on data movement...

Big Blue to Unveil New Digital Video Storage Software

The digital video storage business is hopping. Companies like Isilon, BlueArc, NetApp (thanks to its 2003 Spinnaker acquisition) and several others are generally doing...

Symantec Layoffs Rumor Is True

The rumors we've been hearing for weeks are true: Data protection provider Symantec, which swallowed storage company Veritas four years ago and has had...

New Interactive Library of Congress Site to Debut April 12

The Station believes that, in the wake of The Great Chuck Hollis Zero-Capacity Incident of 2008 (see this item directly below), we must now...

EMC Blogger Pulls Off a Good One

Oh, that Chuck Hollis, Vice President of Technology Alliances over at EMC, is a trickster, he is. In his most recent blog item, he...

Microsoft Moving Deeper into Data Centers

LAS VEGAS -- There are two large IT conferences going on this week in this City of Constant Visitation, held under tranquil blue Nevada...