Macworld Storage World

Macworld Feature: Should you install an SSD?

team@macworld.co.uk (Macworld team) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Just how much faster could a solid-state drive make your Mac? We take a look at some options.

Macworld Feature: Should you install an SSD?

team@macworld.co.uk (Macworld team) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Just how much faster could a solid-state drive make your Mac? We take a look at some options.

Macworld Feature: Should you install an SSD?

team@macworld.co.uk (Macworld team) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Just how much faster could a solid-state drive make your Mac? We take a look at some options.

Reminder: G-Technology by Hitachi Driven Creativity Awards

Nick Spence — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:30:00 GMT

The entry period closes at midnight on 29 September 2010

A reminder that G-Technology by Hitachi are backing the G-Technology Driven Creativity Awards, promising €5,000, around £4,112 to the top creative talent.

Amazon start-up competition to include European semi-final

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT

AWS prize for regional winners

Start-ups doing inventive things with Amazon's cloud services are being sought for the company's annual start-up challenge. And, for the first time, there's a separate European section for new companies this side of the pond.

Toshiba claims hard-drive breakthrough

Martyn Williams — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:50:00 GMT

The company will unveil work in next generation drive technology later on Wednesday

Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage later on Wednesday that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today.

SanDisk launches its smallest-ever USB Flash Drive

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:50:00 GMT

SanDisk's latest USB flash drive, the Cruzer Blade, weighs less than a penny and is the same size as a standard paper clip.

Memory maker SanDisk has ousted its latest USB flash drive, claiming it's the smallest that the company has ever released.

More businesses turn to cloud

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:05:00 GMT

Mimecast survey finds that security is still a barrier

Most businesses now use some element of cloud computing according to new research from Mimecast. However, security concerns remain a barrier to adoption, however 57 per cent of cloud users say that moving to the technology has actually improved security.

Toshiba, SanDisk look to boost flash production

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:45:00 GMT

Toshiba said construction of the facility reflects its expectation that demand will increase for NAND flash memory

Toshiba announced yesterday that it has started construction on a new NAND flash chip fabrication facility - dubbed Fab 5 - at its Yokkaichi City Operations in Japan. The facility, a joing venture with long-time business partner SanDisk Corp., will turn out about 210,000 NAND wafers a month when it becomes fully operational.

LaCie XtremKey survives heat, cold, pressure, water

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:25:00 GMT

The thick zamac alloy casing withstands the pressure of a 10-ton truck

You want your data with you everywhere you go, but at the same time you don’t want to risk damaging it—how do you handle the conundrum? Storage purveyor LaCie has one solution: its new rough-and-tumble XtremKey flash drive is designed to withstand even the harshest environments.

Indian ISP offering cloud computing to masses

John Ribeiro — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:25:00 GMT

Sify's cyber cafes will offer hosted applications and services

Sify Technologies, a large Indian Internet service provider, has launched a suite of cloud-based applications targeting the large number of people in India who do not own computers or have access to the Internet.

New Blu-ray format focuses on data backup

Agam Shah — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Blu-ray goes beyond movie distribution

The Blu-ray Disc Association is stepping away from movie distribution with the latest Blu-ray format, instead focusing on data backup and recording of high-definition broadcast content.

Hitachi Data Systems to offer cloud storage in the data centre

Stephen Lawson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:10:00 GMT

HDS customers pay per terabyte and keep data local

Hitachi Data Systems is preparing to offer cloud storage that even cloud-averse enterprises might accept: It resides in the customer's own data center.

Seagate releases first 3TB external desktop hard drive

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:00 GMT

The same drive can transfer files to Windows or Mac OS X machines

Seagate Technologies today announced the first 3TB external desktop hard drive, which is capable of using USB 2.0, 3.0 or FireWire 800 connectivity.

Macworld Awards 2010 - Top 25 Products of the Year Revealed

Nick Spence and Macworld staff — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:30:00 GMT

Winners of this year's Macworld Awards revealed

Every year the editors at Macworld sit down and decide what have been the finest products of the past 12 months. From the areas of professional creativity through to top consumer products – and, of course, Apple’s own offerings – we honour the best and brightest that have graced our offices over the past year.

Facebook stands by its homegrown infrastructure

Stephen Lawson — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:40:00 GMT

Frequent reviews show that external cloud services would be more expensive and less flexible, Facebook's technical chief said

Facebook regularly reviews whether to continue using its own data centers or hand off its processing to a cloud service provider, and its operations remain on homegrown infrastructure.

HP buys Melodeo, cloud-based delivery system

Nancy Gohring — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:25:00 GMT

HP only recently acquired Palm, the mobile-phone software and hardware maker

Hewlett-Packard confirmed on Wednesday that it had acquired Melodeo, its second recent acquisition in the mobile market.

Freecom tempts consumers with home RAID box

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

An Englishman's home is his NAS

Dutch storage vendor Freecom has launched a new RAID storage box for consumers looking for a simple alternative to tangling with complicated backup software and scheduling.

Cambride researchers develop lean cloud programming framework

Chris Kanaracus — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Mirage project cuts software bloat caused by traditional stacks

Cambridge researchers are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

Iomega announces new portable USB hard drives

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:30:00 GMT

Tough and stylish external drives

Iomega has announced a new line of 500GB, USB 2.0 portable drives featuring one of three colorful and edgy designs from Skin Industries. The new Iomega Skin Hard Drive is built to withstand drops from up to 51 inches onto industrial carpet, which the company claims is 40 percent higher than the industry average. Priced at $120, the Iomega Skin Hard Drives come formatted as NTFS, but can easily be made Mac compatible using OS X's Disk Utility.

G-Technology by Hitachi launches Driven Creativity Awards

Nick Spence — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:00:00 GMT

€5,000 for top creative talent, along with Brick Lane week long showcase

G-Technology by Hitachi has announced the G-Technology Driven Creativity Awards, promising €5,000, around £4,112 to the top creative talent.

JPY intros Archiware's PresSTORE P4 in the UK

Nick Spence — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:15:00 GMT

Back up large data sets from browser based interface and iPhone app

UK software specialists, JPY has announced the launch of the award winning PresSTORE data management system. The latest update includes a new smart browser interface feature to help guide users through the software, a PresSTORE mobile Apple iPhone App to allow users to monitor PresSTORE servers from anywhere and 'progressive backup', billed as a new concept for backing up large data sets.

Intel builds a private cloud

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:25:00 GMT

Expects to save nearly $200 million

Intel's research and development group was the first internal segment to increase efficiency with an infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service approach, improving its server utilisation rate from 59 per cent in the first half of 2006 to 80 per cent today. By reducing infrastructure spending and avoiding building new data center facilities, the company expects to save nearly $200 million. Following this success, Intel decided in early 2009 to build an enterprise private cloud for its office and enterprise groups.

Israeli start-up claims huge boost to SSD reliability

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:05:00 GMT

Higher-endurance NAND will make SSDs more attractive for data center use

Israeli start-up Anobit Technologies Ltd. emerged from quiet mode today and announced its first product, a multilevel cell (MLC) solid-state drive that it says is as reliable as today's higher-end and higher-cost single-level cell (SLC) enterprise -class flash drives.

Trend Micro acquires U.K. cloud storage vendor humyo

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Trend Micro will discuss its plans for humyo later today in a conference call with analysts and press

Trend Micro Friday announced it has acquired humyo, an online storage and data synchronisation company, for an undisclosed price.