Swiss scientists have discovered encasing DNA in glass and chilling it down can preserve data encoded in it for millions of years, moving them closer to an entirely new, and better, way to store the… Read more »
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I’ve heard). It’s… Read more »
You can add another startup to the growing list of software-defined storage startups getting some love from investors in recent month. Seattle-based Qumulo plans to announce on Wednesday that it took… Read more »
This week, Amazon announced their WorkMail solution as a business-class email and calendaring solution in the cloud. Over the past several years, Amazon has produced some amazing solutions. But is WorkMail… Read more »
When choosing which phone to buy, the furthest thing from your mind is where to store your photos. This can lead to buying a phone with very little on device storage. Read more »
Modern scale-out design is necessary for a multi-petabyte storage infrastructure that needs high uptime, performance, and reasonable costs. Read more »
HGST is the reigning champion of hard drives when it comes to reliability, according to cloud backup provider Backblaze, which should know since it deploys tens of thousands of drives to… Read more »
The Norwegian printed electronics firm Thinfilm has formed a strategic partnership with Xerox around printed storage. Xerox will license Thinfilm’s proprietary technology and make Thinfilm Memory labels, which have some very… Read more »
It looks as if EMC and activist investor Elliott Management have worked out their differences at least in the short term. EMC added two Elliott-friendly directors to its board, bringing the total… Read more »
You can add another member to your list of storage startups being swallowed up by storage giants like Sandisk and EMC. This week, flash-storage startup Skyera was bought out by HGST,… Read more »