Storage Breaking News

VMware expands desktop virtualization capabilities
VMware has renamed and expanded upon its desktop virtualization software, with features that reduce storage requirements and allow offline access to desktops. More..

Japan consumer electronics shipments turn negative
Consumer electronics shipments in Japan registered their first year-on-year fall in 17 months in October as consumers cut-back on gadget spending and stores ordered less stock. More..

Greenpeace: Companies not serious about climate change
Consumer electronics giants Apple, Dell, Motorola, Microsoft, Nintendo and Samsung have been slow to get serious about climate change, and are notably lagging behind, according to the latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. More..

Big savings with MAID 2.0 storage technology
For years companies have been deploying Massive Arrays of Idle Disks technologies to reduce data-storage energy costs. More..

EMC launches Decho
EMC last week joined two of its startups Mozy and Pi together to form a new company called Decho that will help consumers manage their personal digital information - their digital echo. More..

Celebrity Tech Gift Guide 2008
Bring on the Celebs! More..

John Thompson retiring as Symantec CEO
John Thompson to retire as Symantec CEO, Enrique Salem named as president and CEO More..

A Techie Holiday Wish List
Hands-free solutions, retro-inspired keyboards, and more. More..

Struggling Sun faces difficult choices about future
Bad times just keep getting worse at Sun Microsystems, and the vendor may face hard choices about which parts of its business to keep and which to shed. More..

EMC joins the cloud
EMC last week joined the cloud storage game with a hardware/software combination that offers massive storage capacity to Web 2.0, telecom and large enterprises who need somewhere to keep their object-based, unstructured data. More..

7 Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT
Just because you don't have a large enterprise doesn't mean you can't run your IT operation like the big guys. Here are seven ways to help your SMB implement some of the lessons big IT operations have learned over the years. Using these tips, you should be able to improve productivity, cut costs, and keep your business running smoothly. More..

Ancient IBM drive rescues Apollo moon data
Valuable mission data gathered by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon forty years ago looks like it may be recovered thanks to a donation of an ancient IBM tape drive by a Sydney computer society. More..

Woven pops data center switch, management tools
Woven Systems (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/101308-woven.html) this week is expected to unveil a compact data center fabric switch and management system designed to let users incrementally upgrade networks to 10 Gigabit Ethernet with increasing insight and control. More..

EMC unveils long-awaited cloud offering
EMC's long-awaited cloud storage offering helps businesses build and deliver Internet-based applications at massive scale. More..

How to add network-attached storage
As more homes get multiple computers, more homes need some type of network storage. With network storage, you can share music files, videos, and photos among machines; send files back and forth; and implement a backup strategy. More..

Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions of 2008
It was predicted 50 years ago that by 2008 we'd vacation on the moon, drive flying cars, and wear wristwatch-sized video conferencing systems. Science isn't delivering on those promises, yet. But who would have guessed back then that in 2008 we'd have do-it-yourself DNA test kits, a particle accelerator, an invisibility cloak, and cameras for the blind? More..

Cisco boosts edge router, throws money at SMB market
Cisco this week is announcing an enhanced enterprise edge router with a higher-speed processor and launching yet another initiative to better penetrate the small to midsize business market. More..

Barracuda bites into backup and disaster recovery
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has bought BitLeap, a seller of backup and disaster recovery services. More..

Start-up pureSilicon and Samsung bolster flash storage market
A start-up joins the flash storage market while Samsung mass produces new flash drives. More..

Apple: No new products before the holidays
Despite Internet rumors of forthcoming product releases, an Apple representative confirmed that the company has no plans to release any new products before the holidays. More..

Seeing tough times ahead, Symantec plans layoffs
Anticipating a slowdown in IT spending, Symantec expects to begin laying off employees next month. More..

The Google-ization of Bechtel
Bechtel's CIO tells how the construction giant is transforming its IT operations by emulating practices of Internet leaders such as Amazon.com and Google. More..

Building for the future
For most IT leaders, bound by long-standing infrastructure choices and loads of legacy systems, it's little more than a parlor game.  More..

Texas Memory hits 1 million IOPS with ultra-fast flash storage
Texas Memory Systems has broken the 1 million input/output operations per second barrier with a flash storage system deployed by a U.S. customer. More..

World's smallest storage device lies in the nucleus of an atom
Scientists have figured out how to store information in the nucleus of an atom. More..