How Do You Store A Zettabyte?
A ZB on flash, by one calculation, would cost $1.15 trillion per year to store at the moment, perhaps dropping to 238 billion per year by 2020. Tape would be $8 billion per year in 2015 and $1.9 billion by 2020.
Seagate Unleashes First 8 TB Hard Drive
With its sights set on the cloud, the hard drive maker ships the "world's first" 8 terabyte hard drive to early customers.
SGI and Scality Team for Storage Migration and Tiering
The companies integrate their respective storage management technologies to help businesses quickly move massive amounts of data to cost-effective tiers of storage.
The Future of Cold Storage
Several data storage technologies are competing to be the leader in the storage of infrequently accessed data.
IDC: EMC Tops Strong 1Q Disk Storage Market
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
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.
Seagate Revises 2Q Guidance Upward but HDDs Still in Short Supply
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
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