Lucas Mearian - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucas Mearian

Article | 16/08/2011 Industry group releases spec to test consumer SSD performance

The Storage Networking Industry Association this month announced the release of a specification that can be used to test the performance of consumer (...

Article | 9/08/2011 The grill: Barbara Koster

Barbara Koster, CIO of Prudential Financial, oversees 1,700 IT employees and formulates policies, establishes standards and architectures, and develop...

Article | 5/08/2011 Healthcare industry leads market in IT hiring

Flush with federal funds and under the gun of federal regulatory deadlines, the healthcare industry is leading the market in IT jobs creation, accordi...

Article | 3/08/2011 Samsung buys MRAM maker Grandis

Samsung Electronics today said it has acquired Grandis, Inc., a Milpitas, Calif., maker of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology known as sp...

Article | 3/08/2011 OCZ releases next-gen PCIe SSD with 2.8GB/sec performance

OCZ today released the fifth generation of its PCI-Express solid state drive (SSD), which it said can perform at a 2.8GB/sec read rate.

Article | 3/08/2011 EBay attacks server virtualization with 100TB of SSD storage

When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine (VM) deployments, its qu...

Article | 2/08/2011 Mitek extends check imaging tech to health care, insurance

Mitek Systems' Mobile Capture imaging software has long allowed banks to offer customers mobile banking capabilities. Now the company is turning the t...

Article | 2/08/2011 Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software

Symantec today announced its next-generation email and content archiving software, Enterprise Vault 10, which now purports to automatically classify e...

Article | 26/07/2011 SanDisk releases new SSDs for old computers

SanDisk has introduced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that it's marketing directly to retail consumers versus computer system manufacturers.

Article | 11/07/2011 F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances

F5 Networks today announced the release of two new file virtualization appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that features 10-Gig...

Article | 30/06/2011 IBM announces computer memory breakthrough

IBM Thursday announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology, which may lead to the development of solid-state chips that can store as much dat...

Article | 1/07/2011 Samsung doubles speed of microSD card for smartphones

Samsung Electronics today announced that it is manufacturing a high-performance microSD card with twice the data transfer speeds as its previous gener...

Article | 29/06/2011 New Mac OS X update supports SSD optimization through TRIM

The latest version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system supports the TRIM command, which allows systems with solid-state drives (SSDs) to perform opti...

Article | 21/06/2011 OCZ releases new customizable enterprise-class SSD

OCZ Technology today released a new enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD), the Deneva 2, which comes with SandForce's latest controller technology,...

Article | 10/06/2011 Apple now No. 1 in flash memory consumption

Apple has surpassed HP and all other equipment manufacturers to become the world's largest consumer of semiconductor technology, largely because of th...