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The Future of Cold Storage
February 24, 2014 -- Several data storage technologies are competing to be the leader in the storage of infrequently accessed data.

Toshiba Aims New HG6 SSDs at Servers and PCs
February 20, 2014 -- Featuring the company's latest 19nm MLC NAND innovations, the new SSDs can speed up read-intensive server applications.

HDDs Are Still Spinning (Rust Never Sleeps)
October 21, 2013 -- Contrary to some accounts, traditional spinning disks continue to play a major role in enterprise storage.

Dell Challenges Disk with All-Flash Compellent Storage Hardware
October 8, 2013 -- Company claims an economic advantage over traditional 15K disk-based storage systems with all-flash Compellent hardware that tiers data between SLC and MLC SSDs.

Quantum Boosts DXi8500 Backup With 3 TB Drives
August 7, 2012 -- New 3 TB drive option and security enhancements raises the bar for the company's disk-based backup systems.

IDC: EMC Tops Strong 1Q Disk Storage Market
June 8, 2012 -- The disk storage market experiences healthy growth despite the squeeze on the entry-level and high-end segments of the disk storage market.

HGST Intros 12Gbps SAS SSDs for Enterprise Storage Systems
May 1, 2012 -- Now a Western Digital company, HGST aims to make its SSDs the storage foundation for tomorrow's responsive clouds and data centers that deliver blistering enterprise apps performance.

Western Digital's Hitachi GST Buy Is a Done Deal
March 9, 2012 -- Regulatory hurdles cleared, and with a near-$5 billion payout, Western Digital will operate Hitachi GST as a subsidiary.

FTC: Western Digital-Hitachi Deal Hinges on Asset Sale to Toshiba
March 6, 2012 -- Western Digital will be required to sell assets and IP related to the manufacture of 3.5-inch hard drives to Toshiba for the FTC to sign off on the $4.5 billion deal.

Seagate Revises 2Q Guidance Upward but HDDs Still in Short Supply
January 5, 2012 -- Reporting preliminary fiscal second quarter 2012 financial results, Seagate Technology said revenues for the quarter were better than expected, but it believes hard disk drives will continue to be in short supply through 2012.

Flooding in Thailand Could Also Depress Worldwide HDD Shipments
November 11, 2011 -- The severe flooding in Thailand has taken hundreds of lives. The country is also a hard disk drive manufacturing center, and the disaster could have a severe effect on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012

Fusion-io Shows Next Generation ioMemory Products
October 3, 2011 -- The new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo feature faster speeds, higher capacities, and self-healing capabilities.

Toshiba Ships New Portable Hard-disk Drives
September 26, 2011 -- Toshiba's new Canvio 3 and Canvio Basics 3 drives pack up to 1 TB of storage in a portable form factor.

Demand for Cheaper SSDs for Frontline Storage Growing
September 21, 2011 -- Survey finds IT trending towards use of SSDs to replace HDDs in datacenters.

Seagate Ships 4 TB External Hard Drive
September 8, 2011 -- A new hard-disk drive supports as much as 4 TB of data in a 3.5-inch external form factor.

Imation Ships Removable Hard Disk Library for SMBs
June 16, 2011 -- Imation expands its RDX hard-disk cartridge storage systems for small and medium customers.

Dell Offers SSDs for In-Memory Solutions
May 18, 2011 -- Dell and Fusion-io say the server giant will sell the smaller firm's NAND-based memory as a replacement for slower, more-expensive disk drives, for in-memory processing.

Seagate Rolls Out Wireless Storage for Mobile Devices
May 16, 2011 -- As the world of mobile devices has gone wireless and portable, so now have hard disk drives.

Seagate Debuts Drive with 1TB Per Platter
May 5, 2011 -- While hard disks continue to hold more data, a consolidation in the industry is making the two market leaders even stronger.

Samsung Sells HDD Business to Seagate
April 19, 2011 -- As use of hard disks slips, at least one lesser player is unloadiing its disk business -- potentially at bargain-basement prices.

Intel and Micron Team on Flash Memory for SSDs
April 15, 2011 -- The two chip giants' new manufacturing technology -- the first, they say, to use line widths of 20 nanometers -- will yield big space savings for everything from phones to solid state storage.

Kaminario Updates DRAM Storage Appliances
March 30, 2011 -- Storage startup adds new options for its solid-state drive appliances.

Western Digital Delivers 6 TB External Hard Drive
March 18, 2011 -- The biggest drive yet from the HDD vendor debuts with support for USB 2.0, eSATA, Firewire 400 and 800.

Seagate announces two SSDs, three HDDs
March 15, 2011 -- New products include Seagate's first MLC-based SSD -- the Pulsar.2.

Avere adds global namespace to NAS tiering
March 14, 2011 -- Software runs on the company’s solid-state FXT appliances, which provide automated tiering and acceleration for heterogeneous NAS filers.