Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

Despite uncertain economic conditions and companies maintaining tight control on IT budgets, the global external disk storage market is growing massively. Exponential growth in digital information and ...

The Q3 performance of the disk storage system markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa exceeded $2.2 billion, up 8.5 percent y-o-y and with capacity consumption up 40 percent to 225.8 petabytes, ...

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This year certainly wasn’t an easy one in the stock market given the early tariff-related volatility. Yet as time carried on (quite favorably for investors), the year should go down as one of the ...

When Microsoft killed Windows Home Server's "Drive Extender" technology, we mourned its loss but held up hope that the company would persevere with the concept. The company has done just that with a ...

Broadcasters wanting the most cutting-edge solutions for digital video storage can consider emerging solid state “flash” memory systems for professional use, but spinning disk drives and digital tape ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

With HDD areal density growth at about 20-25% annually, down from 40% and higher in past years, manufacturers are looking for ways to increase the storage capacity that they can supply the ever ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...