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21/05/2008

NHS Trust loses 38,000 patient records on tape

Personal health records of more than 38,000 patients have gone missing after a computer back-up tape was lost while being sent by courier to a software company, an NHS trust has confirmed.

21/04/2008

IDC: 45GB of data held on every person

Global digital information amounted to 281 billion gigabytes in 2007, or almost 45 GB of digital information for every person on earth, according to research by analyst IDC.

13/03/2008

Data creation outstrips storage for first time

For the first time, the amount of digital information created each year has exceeded the world's available storage space, according to a new IDC report.

28/02/2008

EMC prices set to triple in a few days

EMC has warned users of its hosted MozyPro backup and recovery service that massive price rises are imminent. From March, its monthly fees are set to as much as triple.

15/02/2008

Dell sees an end to consultants

Companies will soon be able to replace expensive consultants when carrying out a storage audit by using software, according to Dell.

22/01/2008

EMC launches hosted storage service

EMC is set to release a hosted backup and recovery service. The new offering will use technology from the company's acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems in September.

14/01/2008

EMC to replace disks with SSDs

EMC plans to introduce a line of solid state drives (SSDs) based on flash memory that will replace some disk drives used in the company's high-end Symmetrix storage arrays.

08/01/2008

Boom time for online storage market

IDC research suggests that global online backup services are poised for major growth.

03/01/2008

Hitachi shows off first 500GB drive for laptops

Hitachi has unveiled the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs, after making a 500GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers.

28/12/2007

IDC serves up top 10 storage predictions for 2008

Solid state drives, online services and de-duplication on the list

11/12/2007

Hurd: Cost-cutting remains crucial for HP's growth

Balancing the product mix while pumping virtualisation, server consolidation and app modernisation

13/11/2007

Seagate hard disks ship with Chinese virus

If you bought one of Seagate's Maxtor Basics consumer hard drives recently, check it for viruses. Especially if you're a gamer.

07/11/2007

Green business requires 'process and tech efficiencies'

Using advanced virtualisation management as well as flash drives in datacentres could help businesses make a measurable green impact, but only if employees also understand best practice, a Fujitsu Siemens executive has warned.

06/11/2007

Dell pays big bucks for SAN vendor EqualLogic

Dell is to buy IP SAN vendor EqualLogic. The acquisition comes just a week after CEO Michael Dell hinted the company could be in the market for some bigger-than-usual acquisitions.

26/10/2007

EMC profit propelled by VMware's growth and IPO

EMC's profit increased dramatically compared to last year's third quarter, lifted again by continued growth of its VMware subsidiary and EMC's recent sale of a slice of the company.

19/10/2007

UK drags feet on disaster recovery

Half of British businesses are not ready to implement disaster recovery plans despite taking pains to simulate the situation, according to a Symantec survey.

03/10/2007

Web 2.0 is 'security risk'

Criminals are taking increasing advantage of Web 2.0 and social networking to attack companies, according to analyst Christian Christiansen, vice president for security products and services at IDC.

19/09/2007

CIOs 'are driving push towards greener datacentres'

Chief executives and chief information officers are driving the push to green the datacentre, with 48% championing the cause, according to new research from network attached storage specialist ONStor.

14/08/2007

VMware IPO set at $29 per share

Investors are preparing for what's been described the biggest technology initial public offering since Google's IPO in 2004 today, with VMware offering shares for $29 each.

02/08/2007

Fear driving retailers to adopt security controls

The massive data breach at The TJX Companies made public earlier this year – and a string of similar smaller breaches at various other firms since then – appears to be goading merchants to accelerate their adoption of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard.

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