The battle between Sony’s Blu Ray and Toshiba HD-DVD next generation optical disc formats could be over before the two have even touched gloves, thanks to a breakthrough by Britain’s New Medium Enterprises.
Phillip Sargeant, Vice President for Gartner Global Storage Team, says it’s not how we store content, but how we manage it that will be the primary focus in the future
HP, IBM and Quantum have jointly announced that the LTO Ultrium format has achieved sales of more than 1.5 million drives since it became commercially available in September 2000.
Open source backup and recovery software developer Zmanda has introduced what it is claiming is the first comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL databases.
After two successful days, a mix of seminars, presentations, exhibitions, networking and even a spot of music, SNW has closed its doors leaving delegates and visitors alike with a new outlook on the world of content storage.
Among its other recent acquisitions of RSA and Network intelligence, earlier this month EMC quietly took over virtual tape library (VTL) software specialist NearTek.
New Zealand’s National Library Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa is doing more than its share of work helping to prevent the digital dark age by helping to develop an open source web crawler to save vast tracks of cyberspace for posterity.
