Storage

The storage software market recorded its fifth successive quarter of year-on-year growth at the end of 2010 with all five of the top-ranked players increasing sales during the quarter, according to estimates published on Monday.  read more »

IBM announced a clustered NAS file system today that is aimed at cloud-computing environments that can scale in size to 14 petabytes of capacity under a single global name space.  read more »

Oracle's integration of Sun Microsystems' product suite will offer medium- to large-size Australian organisations with a highly attractive vertically integrated solution, according to IBRS advisor Dr Kevin McIsaac.  read more »

With pressure from the federal government to begin deploying electronic medical records and the systems that support them, IT vendors are finding good business in lending the money needed to hospitals and physician practices.  read more »

A new data center being built by the Kenyan government to serve East and Central Africa is expected to ease the region's reliance on Europe and America for data backup services.  read more »

Intel on Tuesday said it had resumed shipping its latest consumers solid-state drives (SSDs) after resolving a password bug that made the drives inoperable, making it impossible to access or retrieve data.  read more »

IBM announced enhancements to its information infrastructure portfolio of enterprise storage products. The enhancements to the IBM XIV Storage System and the System Storage DS8000 include security, manageability and business continuity, claimed the company. Furthermore, the system will help customers reduce costs and energy consumption, while dealing with the increasing volume of information that needs to be stored, managed and analyzed, IBM added.  read more »

EMC has officially acquired majority ownership of storage vendor Data Domain after a bidding war with NetApp.  read more »

A surge in NAND flash memory prices is hurting sales of solid-state disk (SSD) drives for laptops, according to market research from iSuppli.  read more »

The recent revelation that Intel Corp.'s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performance degradation raises the question: Do all SSDs slow down with use over time?  read more »