Network Storage

With an estimated 700,000 laptops stolen every year, data security concerns still plague the IT industry. With this in mind, Fujitsu has introduced what it claims is the world’s most advanced full-disk laptop hard drive encryption technology.

Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled what it has dubbed the industry’s greenest enterprise data centre in Yokohama, Japan.

IBM has given its data storage and de-duplication capabilities a leg up with the acquisiting of the storage specialist Diligent Technologies.

Channelling Jurassic Park, Western Digital has announced its new VelociRaptor, dubbing it the world’s fastest SATA hard drive.

Data Domain has joined all the cool storage cats and become a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and in particular a founding members of the association’s data deduplication and space reduction group.

As the solid state disk (SSD) market hots up the knives are coming out, with Seagate claiming SSD manufacturer has infringed on a number of its patents. STEC has now responded saying Seagate’s claims are without merit.

Data Domain has become the latest company to join the Green Grid, an group of storage companies committed to improving efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of data centres.

Hitachi has rolled out a new enterprise hard disk, promising the usual bundle of increased performance and greater capacity.

IBM has come up with a strong showing in its first-quarter 2008 results posting to the New York Stock Exchange.

Diagnostic health firm DDI Health has picked DataCore to handle its storage virtualisation, claiming the firm’s technology is the right tincture for its data storage and VMware ills.

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