The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report.
Although a discrepancy between the traditional and modern definitions of kilobyte has led to Seagate Technology offering a rebate on their hard drives, a Seagate representative has confirmed that Australians will not be eligible for the refund.
IBM has announced a major launch of new storage products and technology to help customers deal with the huge amounts of data they hold.
IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks.
In the wake of the confirmed AU$18.6 billion merger between Westpac and St George Bank, observers have forecast that the IT hangover from the deal could take at least three years to wear off, but in the process the merged banking entity will become one of the largest IT shops in Australia.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
A look at IBM's RAMAC, the original hard disk drive created in 1956. It weighed more than 250 kilograms and stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter.
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
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Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.
IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape.
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Storage gear maker LSI Logic and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will join forces to work on development of serial-attached SCSI, which could speed up the delivery of devices using the next-generation high-speed connection technology.
Hitachi's storage division has made a tiny hard drive faster and more efficient, meaning notebooks will be quicker and use less power.
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