Network World - European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

Texas-based data storage company Pivot3 has raised $23 million in new funding led by Samsung Ventures, with all existing Pivot3 investors participating including Focus Ventures, InterWest Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mesirow Financial, Northleaf Capital Partners and Silver Creek Ventures. This brings Pivot3's total funding to nearly $100 million. Pivot3's storage hardware appliances ...

YORK, England, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A new way of magnetic recording using heat will allow data processing hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology, British researchers say.

TwinStrata CloudArray®, available as virtual or physical appliance, offers interoperability with Nirvanix CloudComplete(TM) enterprise-grade public, hybrid, and private cloud storage services, giving Nirvanix users gain flexible way to integrate cloud storage into existing infrastructure. Features such as dynamic caching, in-cloud snapshots, bandwidth throttling and scheduling, in-flight and at ...

Amazon.com Cuts Prices For Data Storage It Rents To Businesses

NEW YORK, NY-- - Shares of companies focused on data storage have performed well in 2012 as a shortage of disk drives due to last year's devastating Thailand floods boosted the Hard Disk Drive market, ...

Keeps data on SSDs for quick access

STERLING, Va., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB.OB - News), www.IceWEB.com , a leading provider of Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and virtual storage networks, announced today ...

THOUSAND OAKS, CA-- - Nexsan ®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that the computer science department at Brigham Young University has deployed Nexsan's ...

Much research has been performed working on ways to improve the speed and power efficiency of data storage devices such as hard drives. A group of researchers from York University are working as part of an international team and the team has found that they can store information using heat instead of a magnetic field [...]

Xyratex has seen some good earnings surprises and fights off the pressure of the Thailand floods.

Using object-based dispersed storage technology, 10 Exabyte storage system allows for independent scaling of storage capacity and performance through Portable Datacenter (PD) feature. Each PD contains 21 racks with 189 storage nodes per PD and 45, 3 TB drives per storage node. Geographically distributed PD model is optimized for site failure tolerance and availability. Current configuration ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleversafe, Inc., the solution for limitless data storage, announced today availability of the first ever 10 Exabyte storage system to meet the growing need to store ...

Data storage is a tricky business as we are constantly looking for better ways to store our data and to do it quicker. When it comes to the typical hard drives that we use daily it is all about using a magnetic field against a spinning magnetic disk inside of an enclosure. While the idea of using [...] The newest tool to make storing data on magnetic hard drives faster? Heat. is a post from: The ...

STERLING, Va., Jan. 25, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB.OB - News), www.IceWEB.com , a leading provider of Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and virtual environments, announced today its ...

Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density by packing multiple bits of data into each memory cell.

A UK-led team of scientists has found a way to use heat to reverse the polarity of magnetic media, which they say could let data be recorded at a rate of terabytes per second, for lower energy drain ( ZDNet UK - Emerging Tech )

HERNDON, Va., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Cleversafe , Inc. have formed a new technology alliance that will facilitate collaboration between the two companies to support ...

Dongyan Wang, an executive at data- storage provider NetApp Inc. (NTAP) , did what peers at some other businesses deem unthinkable: He let the company’s 10,000 employees start making their own mobile applications for work.

  NATICK, Mass., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  TwinStrata, Inc. , the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced seamless interoperability with ...

CAMPBELL, CA-- - Enterprise data center optimization leader APTARE®, Inc. today announced the introduction of the APTARE Community Cloud and enhanced storage array performance analytics for their APTARE ...

PMC-Sierra Inc., a maker of chips for computer-networking and data-storage equipment, declined in late trading after it forecast lower sales than estimated, citing weakness in spending by communications companies.

PMC-Sierra Inc., a maker of chips for computer-networking and data-storage equipment, declined in late trading after it forecast lower sales than estimated, citing weakness in spending by communications companies.

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years.

THOUSAND OAKS, CA-- - Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that Connectria Hosting , a global managed hosting company, has deployed the Nexsan Flexible ...

PMC-Sierra Inc., a maker of chips for computer-networking and data-storage equipment, declined in late trading yesterday after it forecast lower sales than estimated, citing weakness in spending by communications companies.

Overland Storage , the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, today announced that it has installed two SnapServer network attached storage systems at assona GmbH.

NEW YORK, NY-- - Shares of companies focused on data storage have performed well in 2012 as a shortage of disk drives due to last year's devastating Thailand floods boosted the Hard Disk Drive market, ...

A new exam and certification for information technology (IT) professionals working in the evolving and expanding data storage arena was introduced recently by CompTIA and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).