Enterprise Storage

Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010

Computer equipment and software will drive solid IT spending growth according to Forrester Research and Gartner reports

SNIA standard should help in moving cloud data

The storage group's new CDMI standard covers metadata about content stored in clouds

NetApp buys Bycast

To bolster its object-based storage

Quantum introduces a tape library, Cisco a new switch

Both use 8Gb Fibre Channel

Don’t give up on tape yet

While some consider it a relic, tape still has value in the data center

Western Digital releases its fastest VelociRaptor hard drive

Drive boasts 15% performance increase over current VelociRaptor

OCZ announces 2TB SSD with 1.4Gbit/sec throughput

Z-Drive R2 has interchangeable NAND flash modules for field upgrades, servicing

3PAR, Riverbed and LSI/Seagate roll out solid state drives

Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

IBM's monitoring of data to keep it secure in the cloud, vendors claim

Iron Mountain transforms