IBM, that oh-so-straight-laced bastion of research, development and commercial success, is kicking back a little to celebrate an anniversary this month and reflect upon how far technology has come ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These units are part of an IBM System/3 Model 10 Disk System. Developed in 1966-1967, the System/3 computer was intended for customers who had no need of the more expensive IBM 360 models. It was most ...

Hitachi Ltd. announced four new hard disk drive products today and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., a new company comprising Hitachi’s and IBM’s hard disk drive operations.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...