Latest storage news.
Microsoft taking storage to next level, 05/15/06
The company hopes that its iSCSI products — the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, the Microsoft/IBM iSCSI Software-enabled Remote Boot and its WinTarget software — will lead it into enterprise storage markets that want to blend Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs.
Water and wires mix for better data storage, 05/12/06
Water and wires ten atoms thick could be used to construct the smallest and densest storage elements ever known. The wires, three billionths of a meter wide, could be used to store 12.8TB of data in a cubic centimeter of memory. At least that’s what …
171 Billion and counting, 05/12/06
171 billion e-mails are sent each day, a study from the Radicati Group says. More than 70% of them are spam. I wondered if I was contributing to this e-mail glut. I have five e-mail accounts — two of which I almost never use. I visited those two …
EMC expands into Microsoft services, 05/11/06
EMC, recognizing that providing service and support to its growing Microsoft base, made good on its promises to acquire companies of this kind. Today, it acquired the Interlink Group, a specialist in Microsoft integration and support services. …
Turning the archiving table, 05/10/06
Normally, healthcare or financial organizations retain and archive e-mail for compliance with HIPAA or Securities and Exchange Commissions rulings. Here’s an instance where e-mail archiving has been put to a different use — that of using it to get …
Iron Mountain loses another customer tape containing sensitive data, 05/09/06
Well, Iron Mountain has done it again! It now leads the pack in my informal scoring of who has been the most capable when it comes to …
