New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...
It's difficult to believe how far technology has come since the mid-1950s. At a time when "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" were hit shows with nightly audiences, IBM was busy developing one of the ...
The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.
In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more widely, in servers, services and the cloud. We find the company ...
Jack Kilby demonstrates the world’s first integrated circuit to his colleagues at Texas Instruments (TI). From Texas Instruments’ website: Jack Kilby’s first working integrated circuit consisted of a ...
I was nineteen years old, working my way through college at a big oil company, when IBM’s storage team taught me that some technology can seem like magic. Something the company continues to do today.
These days, mass storage for computers is pretty simple. It either uses a rotating disk or else it is solid state. There are a few holdouts using tape, too, but compared to how much there used to be, ...
After exploring various technologies, including wire matrices and rod arrays, IBM invented the hard disk drive in 1953 at its San Jose, California, lab. Initially, the technology was referred to as a ...
Note1 EMC revenue excludes OEM revenue from Dell and Fujitsu Siemens. Note2 Hitachi/HDS revenue excludes OEM revenue from HP and Sun Microsystems. Source: Gartner (March 2009) Gartner external ...
In this second article of two, we look at Hitachi, IBM and Pure Storage. The cloud and consumption models of procurement are incredibly important for these three, too. But with interests in industry ...
Storing computer data began with magnetic tape and then magnetic disk and eventually solid state drives. However, tape is likely to thrive well into the future, primarily using Linear Tape Open ...