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It's hard to believe that magnetic tape is having a renaissance, but researchers at IBM have developed a new tape material to give it a second life. At IBM's Zurich Research Laboratories in Read more...

ParaScale, a cloud-storage startup, says it has software that can pool a number of file servers much the same as NAS clustering schemes like F5's Acopia devices or EMC's Rainfinity software. But the Read more...

American and South Korean Scientists have fabricated a memory device that combines silicon nanowires with a more traditional type of data-storage. ZeeNews reports that this new hybrid Read more...

All the recent talk about tight IT budgets not withstanding, the trillion-dollar mark for nation-wide enterprise technology investments is on the horizon. Info-Tech Research Group's Indaba Division Read more...

With its stellar (in comparison to Microsoft) reputation in both security and reliability, more enterprises are beginning to consider moving to Mac OS X. Factors that have helped include Apple's Read more...

Internal security risks are often cited as the biggest site of exposure for enterprises. Now, new tiny storage devices are making the potential for data theft even more likely. According to a new Read more...

Many times, especially when the words come from a vendor, it's hard to decipher hype from reality and marketing from actual trends. Yet I've found most vendors, and their leaders, to be incredibly Read more...