Brian Fonseca - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Brian Fonseca

Article | 5/08/2008 Data explosion forcing IT to seek new backup tools

The need to control and secure a continuing explosion of data across the corporate world is forcing IT managers to constantly be on the lookout for ne...

Article | 30/07/2008 NASA launches online historical image gallery

NASA last week launched a new interactive Web site, jointly developed with the non-profit Internet Archive, which initially combines some 21 separatel...

Article | 28/07/2008 Intel unveils embedded chipset

Intel has launched its System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor, which is said to offer lower power and customization capabilities for embedde...

Article | 10/07/2008 Hitachi unveils 3.5-in. drives with capacities up to 1TB

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is set Wednesday to unveil a new 3.5-in. hard disk drive family for desktop PCs. The company said the new line inc...

Article | 26/06/2008 HP unveils de-dupe tools for disk-based backup systems

Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled de-duplication software designed to speed up and simplify data backup operations in its high-end and midrange of di...

Article | 26/06/2008 Imation rolls out paperclip-sized USB flash drive

Imation Wednesday unveiled the Atom Flash Drive, a 1.5-in. long portable storage device that is no larger than a paperclip and can store up to 8GB of ...

Article | 24/06/2008 Storage power costs to approach $2B this year, says IDC

Businesses last year spent approximately US$1.3 billion to make sure that spinning hard disk drives did not overheat and kept running despite being sq...

Article | 23/06/2008 Dell, WD, Hitachi charged with violating patents in PCs, drives

Convolve last week filed a federal lawsuit this week charging that Dell, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have violated its pat...

Article | 19/06/2008 HP adding solid-state memory to its servers

Hewlett-Packard and startup Fusion-io Wednesday announced plans to jointly enable the latter's solid-state memory technology to run across HP server p...

Article | 16/06/2008 Ultrafast storage fuels movie's battle scenes

Hired by Marvel Entertainment to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen, officials at the Soho VFX special effects...

Article | 12/06/2008 Thieves steal tapes holding 2.2M billing records

University of Utah officials this week acknowledged that a metal box of backup tapes containing billing records of some 2.2 million patients was stole...

Article | 12/06/2008 Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8-in. hard drive

Toshiba plans to introduce two new 1.8-in. hard drives, which the company claims can reduce the storage footprint in ultra-portable and sub-notebook P...

Article | 13/06/2008 New Sun code transforms x86 servers into storage arrays

Sun Microsystems is set to unveil Friday open source software that can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device ca...

Article | 11/06/2008 Western Digital unveils 1TB drive, repackages product lines

Western Digital Tuesday unveiled a new family of 3.5-in. hard drives offering capacities of 750GB and 1TB for desktop and multi-drive systems. Additio...

Article | 3/06/2008 Lost backup tape prompts IT changes at NY bank

Officials at Bank of New York Mellon late last week said it has launched a new policy to encrypt data held on all storage devices and to limit the amo...