IDC believes that the future of disk-based storage looks bright, with plenty of opportunity for companies to grow on many different fronts, due to strategies involving virtualisation and compliance.
Imation's Micro Hard Drive, which contains 2-gigabytes, has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's smallest hard drive spinning head.
Customers and partners have voiced their support of the merger between Symantec and Veritas, which was finally completed this week along with the announcement of a new board of directors.
Small businesses can have their business files, accounting records and emails automatically backed up every day now without the inconvenience of alternating tapes, CDs or DVDs.
HP and EMC have agreed to resolve an argument about storage patents out of court, despite EMC winning this dispute last year, based on the legal problems which came with HP's acquisition of StorageApps.
Hewlett-Packard has teamed up with Fujitsu, Hitachi and Seagate to speed up the development and adoption of the next generation hard drive technology designed to improve performance and server/storage density.
Storage networks and applications can be more easily integrated and managed to help with disaster recovery and storage consolidation through the release of a new intelligent SAN switch by MaXXan Systems.
