Posts Tagged HDD

IBM Announces Phase Change Memory Progress

On June 30 IBM broadcast to the wider world the summary of a paper presented at the International Memory Workshop. The content was about the progress IBM scientists have made in semiconductor based storage. So, no product announced nor a roadmap for a commercial implementation. The topic is Phase Change Memory (PCM), which IBM thinks [...]

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Storage Industry Consolidation

As the storage industry consolidates, the net effect change how customers purchase and deploy their next storage products and the net effect is not necessarily synergistic. The HDD Duopoly In the HDD market, unit shipments keep growing and the suppliers have voluntarily merged to the extent that we are left with Seagate and WD (pending [...]

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MatrixStore of Object Matrix – A Storage Appliance from Wales

Coming across new European based storage vendors is a rare occurance, but Object Matrix is alive and well based out of Caerphilly in Wales of the UK. The MatrixStore has been produced since 2006 and although it is targeted at the media/post production industry it is a storage system in its own right that will [...]

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Drobo Elite and Drobo S

Self managed RAID specialist adds new models: Drobo Elite and Drobo S. Drobo so far developed arrays of 4 and 8 bays of the which the user can insert HDDs and eject at will. The new S model tweaks the model with a 5 drive array and has eSATA added. The Elite for SMBs enhances [...]

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