Week in Storage: Meteors, holograms, and DVRs dominate

New developments in the past week include 32GB flash modules, DVRs are cleared for remote time-shifting, and Gartner recommends CIOs stop stuffing their storage servers like a squirrel storing nuts. All this, and a bit more, in this edition of Week in Storage.

August 10, 2008 - 08:41AM CT - by Joel Hruska

Samsung joins call for SSD standards, better OS support

Samsung has announced it is working with Microsoft bb to improve SSD support in Vista, complementing other recent news from Samsung, JEDEC, and Sun. Will a maturing SSD industry be able to accelerate the growth of its business by standardizing to increase enterprise and consumer confidence?

August 09, 2008 - 06:55PM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

Week in Storage: home clouds, social backup, and green IT

This has been another busy week in storage, with a post-mortem on Amazon's S3 outage, debate over green storage, and multiple hardware launches. Ars explores the highlights of the week.

August 02, 2008 - 03:35PM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

Optical storage goes deep: 1TB stored in three dimensions

Researchers in California report on the creation of a standard sized optical disc (120mm x 1.2mm) that is capable of holding up to 1 Terabyte of data. The added storage comes from using all three dimensions instead of encoding data on the surface of the disc.

July 29, 2008 - 11:20AM CT - by Matt Ford

Week in Storage: Cloud storage fumbles, tape sets records

Ars summarizes this week in storage, including cloud storage news and hardware launches from WD, LG, Texas Memory, IBM, and Sun.

July 26, 2008 - 01:21AM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

Hard drive shipments grow rapidly despite recession

Amidst the current global financial crisis, one corner of the technology industry is not only staying afloat, but thriving. Strangely enough, it's not a new technology, but an old one.

July 25, 2008 - 02:05PM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

From notebooks to the cloud: the week in storage

Notebook hard drives hit 160GB, WD beefs up the venerable Caviar desktop drive line, and Symantec makes moves in the cloud, all inside.

June 13, 2008 - 11:41AM CT - by Jon Stokes

Sun touts 2008 as the year of the enterprise SSD

Sun has joined Intel on the "2008 is the year of the SSD in the enterprise" bandwagon, and the company is now offering SSD options across its server lines.

June 04, 2008 - 09:30PM CT - by Jon Stokes

Syncing vs. saving, and the case for a home storage cloud

On a technical level, to "sync" a file and to "save" it are the same thing. But in terms of user experience, there's a world of difference between the two actions. So here's why I'd rather save to the cloud than sync across the LAN.

June 01, 2008 - 06:05PM CT - by Jon Stokes

Analysis: 1TB for $200 is great, but SSD is still the future

On the occasion of hard drives reaching a new cost/byte milestone, Ars takes a look back at what's wrong (and right) with the venerable hard drive and glances ahead to what's next.

May 29, 2008 - 11:15AM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

Mission Critical iSCSI Storage Networks

This week, Ars continues its enterprise coverage, discussing the viability of iSCSI in mission critical SAN applications.

April 25, 2008 - 10:30PM CT - by John Timmer

IBM serves up Web 2.0 with a water-cooled twist

At the Web 2.0 Expo, IBM announced a new line of cool-running servers aimed at Web 2.0 and "cloud computing" start-ups. Unlike most cloud computers, IBM's iDataPlex actually has water (optional).

April 23, 2008 - 02:10PM CT - by Jon Stokes

A consultant's view of the SAN market

Last week, Ars launched The Server Room, a community for IT professionals. Today, we look at the state of the Storage Area Network market and how 8Gb Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet will cause it to evolve.

April 15, 2008 - 12:54PM CT - by Kurt Hutchinson