Latest storage news.
10 virtualization companies to watch, 08/20/07: Attune Systems makes the list with its Maestro File Manager, a file-virtualization appliance for heterogeneous file-storage resources.
Flash drive offers PIN security, 08/17/07: Memory company Corsair has come up with an ingeniously simple way to secure USB flash drives without having to remember a password — build a PIN-based ‘padlock’ into the drive itself.
3PAR, Equallogic file to go public, 08/15/07: Storage start-ups 3PAR and Equallogic filed IPOs yesterday in a market that is heating up for storage IPOs.
Archived data put at risk by time, 08/16/07: “Digital information is at risk of being lost,” say respondents to a recent study from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
Moore’s Law meltdown fueling efficiency, panelists say, 08/15/07: It’s a popular theory that energy inefficiency in data centers is causing an economic meltdown of Moore’s Law. The dramatic increase in computational performance of processors and servers is not being matched by a corresponding rise in energy efficiency, Bruce Taylor of the Uptime Institute consulting group said Tuesday.
