IBM targets healthcare storage needs; Buffalo hits 3TB

Opinion
May 16, 20071 min

Latest storage news.

IBM targets healthcare market with grid computing, 05/16/07:  Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a healthcare industry event.

Cool Tool Blog: Buffalo hits 3TB:  Buffalo Technology said 3TB versions of its TeraStation Live and TeraStation Pro II network-attached storage boxes are now available. The NAS boxes, which offer high-speed processors with data transfer rates of up to 38Mbps, have an estimated street price of $2,499.

EMC, MonoSphere support replication management, virtual environments, 05/15/07:  EMC and capacity-planning vendor MonoSphere on Monday announced enhancements to products to support virtualized environments and long-distance replication.

NetApp debuts all-file deduplication, 05/15/07:  Network Appliance on Monday introduced deduplication for all types of file data rather than just backup data.

Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte, 05/10/07:  Taking a cue from its supercomputing legacy, NEC Corporation of America Wednesday introduced a series of storage arrays that achieve new benchmarks in scalability, performance and availability for the storage vendor by scaling from a terabyte to a petabyte nondisruptively and offering different hard drive classes in the same enclosure.