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 world's two main networked storage architectures--SAN and NAS--are breeding. EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of ...

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Every week, there are new reports of data breaches at organizations of every type.

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 ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

What if your external storage device could do more than just store files? Imagine a sleek, credit card-sized gadget that not only holds up to 4TB of data but also doubles as a USB docking station, ...

or, if you prefer, "Could new storage technology replace hard disks?". Physicists, especially those owned by computer companies and universities, are understandably keen to create new fundamental IT.