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Sybase offers dynamic alternative to archive storage
News I don't see it affecting the market for tapes and disks as they will still be used for very rarely used data. Sybase has announced the release of a database-archiving solution, Sybase Dynamic Archive, that gives customers the performance and cost...
21 June 2004, 7:30
Hitachi plans laptop drive revolution
News Perpendicular recording effectively lets disks store more data on a surface than in the past. Laptop drives are facing a revolution in 2007. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese electronics giant, will sell...
1 November 2006, 10:26
Celebrating 30 years of Apple
News The quirky Mac, with its small, 9-inch black-and-white screen and 3.5-inch floppy disks, quickly developed a legion of rabid enthusiasts, a phenomenon that came to be known as the 'Cult of Mac'. In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going...
30 March 2006, 10:49
Will your PC keep up with Vista?
News In the past, machines have actually lost significant performance as more software loads at startup, hard disks become fragmented and other features 'gunk up' the works. How does Windows Vista love thy computer?
16 March 2006, 11:14
Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break
News Some of the things that Microsoft uses to distinguish its own software, such as its "Certificate of Authenticity" labels and its hologram-labelled disks, are not that well-known to consumers, he said.
5 May 2005, 9:24
Storage fashion favouring tapes
News When it comes to storing data these days, disks just aren't enough, EMC indicated this week. The maker of disk-based storage systems announced on Thursday that it will resell tape-based devices from Advanced Digital Information as a way of giving...
14 June 2004, 7:35
The drive for multi-disk PCs
News RAID hits homeReinsel said the technology that has helped most with the transition to dual-hard-drive PCs is a technique used in larger computer servers: RAID, or redundant array of inexpensive (or independent) disks.
11 August 2005, 8:46


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