One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

The technology, developed by GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co., differs from current optical storage such as Blu-ray and DVD, which store data only on the ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...

Although Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD technologies have yet to reach the mainstream, a Japanese company said it has made progress toward a more advanced holographic technology that may one day replace them ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

With no moving parts, solid state is much faster and much more reliable than disk storage, but it remains significantly more expensive than disk. "Everything I've read and understood about solid state ...

Digistore Solutions is unveiling its Centurion DiscHub Optical Library, an automated CD/DVD storage device optimized for the retail industry. The Centurion DiscHub CD/DVD storage device holds 100 ...

A few hundred movies on an optical disc? That's the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance. Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote ...

Sales of a key kind of data storage hardware rose 5.1 percent in the second quarter, but the outlook for the product category is less rosy, according to a new report from research firm Gartner.

Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7% increase over 2009, according to a report released Friday by market research firm IDC. A petabyte equals 1 ...