Micron Technologies announces the purchase of Virtensys, a Manchester-based PCIe-sharing virtualisation solutions provider. 

The 2 companies do not provide additional details of the agreement. 

The purchase will result in the folding of Virtensys virtualisation software with Micron storage, resulting in the more efficient virtualisation of NAND flash storage in enterprise systems. 

PCIe card units contain large amounts of NAND flash and replace spinning disk drives in systems demanding a high number of transactions per minute (or second), such as Read more...

Researchers at IBM manage to store one bit of data using just 12 atoms-- creating the smallest magnetic storage device in the world while determining the atomic limits of magnetic storage. 

In comparison, today's HDDs use around 1 million atoms to store 1 bit of data. 

The atom-scale breakthrough seen at IBM could result in magnetic storage devices with data densities at least 100 times more than current HDDs and solid state memory. IBM says "as components continue to shrink, the march continues to the inevitable end point: the atom. We’re taking th Read more...

Will the future of Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) storage be... fish based? Researchers at National Tsing Hua Universtity in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany believe so, revealing how to use salmon DNA to build a WORM data storage device. 

Where did the DNA come from? The testes (sperm) of Oncerynchus keta, better known as chum or keta salmon. 

DNA is already pretty amazing-- after all, it is the "blueprint of life" and contains the proteins shaping an creature's processes and characteristics. But it can be even more than Read more...

Dell makes use of technology from 2010 acquisition Ocarina Networks with the DR4000-- a disk-based backup appliance performing data deduplication and replication tasks.

The company also launches version 6.0 of Compellent Storage Centre, now supporting 64-bit technology together with tigher integration with VMware vSphere storage APIs. 

Dell says the DR4000 achieves 15:1 data reduction ratio, allowing for the storage of up to 100TB in a 2U array. It aims for SMB and small enterprise use (as primary data storage with backup and disaster recovery capabilities) Read more...