Study: Hard disks still scrapped with data intact

Opinion
Aug 14, 20061 min

Latest storage news.

Study: Hard disks still scrapped with data intact, 08/10/06

Companies are still selling on old hard drives without taking the slightest precaution to wipe business-sensitive data first, a study has found.

Attention all storage vendors: The DOJ wants you, 08/11/06

The U.S. Department of Justice is considering a massive consolidation of its storage network that would link more than 2,000 offices and multiple data centers into a single, easy-to-manage enterprise storage architecture.

Storage week in review: Brocade/McData, IBM, Sun, EMC and more, 08/11/06

A lot of interesting news this week, what with Brocade acquiring McData for $713 million. The acquisition signals further consolidation of the Fibre Channel switch market – now there are only three Fibre Channel switch makers left – Cisco, which is …

Storage Newsletter: How to reduce your disk requirements for online recoveries, 08/10/06

The need to address more demanding recovery time objectives has meant that many companies now try to recover from locally maintained backup …

IBM rolls out entry-level SAN array, 08/09/06

IBM Tuesday introduced an entry-level storage array for small and mid-sized businesses and departments within the enterprise.