03/07/2009 - Intel Advances Roadmap to Double SSD Capacity

Intel is to implement the projected doubling of its SSD capacities earlier than expected - possibly as soon as next month.
The current X18-M and X25-M solid-state drives (SSDs) use a 50nm process and have 80GB and 160GB capacities with 2-bit multi-level cell (MLC) technology.

03/07/2009 - Green-House Launches New Line of SSDs

The Japanese firm Green-House has announced a new line of 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs that use PATA IDE interface.
Both lines are available with capacities ranging from 16GB to 128GB.

19/06/2009 - Storage Cost Savings and Dynamic Provisioning

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, has introduced unique capabilities across software and services to enable customers to reclaim underutilised storage capacity and increase the return on their assets.
This announcement highlights the company’s strategic Global Services capabilities to further extend the economic and optimisation benefits customers can achieve leveraging Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning technology.

12/06/2009 - 2TB Memory Cards By 2010?

Storage of consumer electronics could be boosted by as much as 2TB with the arrival of a new generation of memory cards.
That's the expectation of the SD Association, which suggest Secure Digital memory cards based on the new SDXC (extended capacity) specification could be out as early as next year.

05/06/2009 - NetApp Awaits EMC Response to Data Domain Bid

The bidding war for Data Domain stepped up this week after NetApp raised the stakes with rival EMC by making a new cash and stock offer of USD $1.9 billion.
This came two days after EMC's offer of USD $30 per share in a deal worth about USD $1.8 billion - around 20 per cent over the original USD $1.5 billion offered last month by NetApp.

22/05/2009 - Phoenix Introduces Fastest, Most Versatile SSD VME Mass Storage Module

Phoenix International has unveiled its new VS1-250-SSD Serial Attache SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) based VME data storage plug-in blade.
The VS1-250-SSD delivers high capacity, high performance data storage - with burst data transfer rate to 300MB/sec and sustained data transfer to 120MB/sec.

22/05/2009 - Optical Media With 1.6 Terabyte Capacity Created

Researchers have announced they have created a "five-dimensional" optical media that can hold up to 1.6 terabytes of data.
The team from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said the technology could easily be on the market within 10 years.

22/05/2009 - WD Adds 2TB Hard Drives As Demand Grows

WD has expanded its WD AV-GP line of hard drives to include a 2 TB capacity, which it claims is the industry's largest available drive to-date.
The company said the move was in response to growing demand for higher capacity storage continues to increase due to large video applications, including high-definition video.

08/05/2009 - Service Offers To Double iPod Capacity To 240GB

A US Company has started an iPod upgrading service that can expand an iPod to 240GB - or 48,000 tracks.
Apple's largest iPod is the 120GB classic which allows up to 24,000 tracks to be stored.

13/03/2009 - Texas Memory Systems Introduces Highest Capacity PCI-Express Solid State Disk

Texas Memory Systems has announced its latest PCI-Express Solid State Disk aimed at mainstream businesses and applications.
The RamSan-20 offers 450GB of usable grade Flash - which the company claims makes it the highest capacity enterprise class PCIe Flash card on the market.

05/03/2009 - A-DATA Launches Highest Capacity SSD For Laptops and Netbooks

The race to drive up flash memory storage capacity has a new champion in the form of A-DATA Technology.
The Taiwanese company has just announced the highest capacity of SSD in the industry at CeBIT 2009 - the 512GB XPG 2.5" SSD.

20/02/2009 - Survey Highlights Key Role Datacentres Play To Ensure Competitiveness

More than four out of five companies surveyed are planning datacentre expansions within the next two years, according to Digital Realty Trust.
The wholesale datacentre provider also found that more than a quarter of surveyed companies are actively planning immediate datacentre expansion projects that are commencing in 2009.

20/02/2009 - WD Readies New My Book World Storage Device

Western Digital has redesigned its My Book World Edition to target consumers with multiple computers on a home network.
The company says the new device simplifies the tedious task of backing up an entire household's files.

29/01/2009 - WD Launches 2TB Hard Drive

WD has announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive.
The device is the latest addition to WD's environmentally friendly Caviar Green hard drive family.

30/09/2008 - SanDisk Announces 16GB Mobile Phone Memory Card

SanDisk is to launch what it claims is the world’s largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones - a 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory card.
The fingernail-sized memory cards are aimed at consumers wanting to get the most out of the many storage-intensive features in today’s portable handsets.