Latest storage news.
Design e-mail archives beyond legal discovery, 08/24/07: Corporations are racing against time to create archives that allow retrieval of e-mails in response to increasingly common civil suit discovery motions.
Gear6 offers huge RAM cache for network, 08/28/07: U.S. supplier Gear6 has announced network-attached storage (NAS) boxes featuring a transparent RAM cache.
IBM expands into the SMB storage space, 08/28/07: IBM this week is expanding its small and midsize business (SMB) storage with the addition of an affordable storage array that connects to the network via iSCSI.
Podcast: Panasonic speeds up trans-Pacific file transfers, 08/27/07: With development teams in the U.S. and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic R&D, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (17:36)
Iomega’s inexpensive network storage, 08/27/07: At one time, network storage was an expensive proposition. Iomega is aiming to shatter the preconception with its new line of Home Network Hard Drives. The drives, available in 320GB, 360GB, and 500GB capacities, set new low-water marks for network storage. The 320GB model costs $149, as will the 360GB model when it ships in September. The 500GB model carries a retail price of $199.
