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• Bacteria explored as new data storage medium
  Tuesday 27 February 2007 – 07:18
  Researchers of the Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced development of a "new technology" that enables "long-term" data storage in bacterial DNA.
• Asus selects Silicon Image's SteelVine storage processor for new motherboard
  Wednesday 21 June 2006 – 04:18
  Silicon Image has announced that Asustek Computer has selected the SiI 4723 SteelVine storage processor for its digital home desktop motherboard, the P5W DH Deluxe.
• Sabio rolls out multi-TeraByte consumer storage box
  Friday 27 January 2006 – 04:49
  San Diego-based Sabio Digital has introduced a consumer-level storage device capable of storing one teraByte and up worth of data. The Sabio Storage CM-4 box sports an Intel Xscale 400 megahertz processor and four hard-drives. The box runs on an embedded Linux operating system and is compatible with either PCs or Macs.
• Global storage software market rakes in double digit growth in Q3
  Monday 12 December 2005 – 10:00
  The sales volume of the worldwide storage software market climbed 10.0 percent year over year and topped $2.1 billion in the third quarter of 2005, according to market research firm IDC. Q3 marked the eighth consecutive quarter in which the industry achieved double-digit year-over-year growth.
• Holographic storage on track for December ship date
  Thursday 3 August 2006 – 12:24
  The first holographic storage media will begin shipping by Christmas, executives at media maker Hitachi Maxell have indicated.
• Storage study shows billions and billions of gigabytes served
  Tuesday 6 March 2007 – 11:51
  A study on storage trends by IDC shows that we are using billions of gigabytes of storage at an increasing rate. The study predicts that there will be a 57% annual growth rate in storage and that the amount of information created will reach 988 exabytes in 2010. For those of you have to look up what an Exabyte is (like I did), it is a one followed by 18 zeros.
• Strong demand sustains worldwide growth for storage software market
  Monday 11 December 2006 – 04:34
  The worldwide storage software market experienced its 12th consecutive quarter of on-year growth in the third quarter of 2006 with revenues of $2.5 billion, representing a 10.7% on-year growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
• IDC: External disk storage systems market achieves record growth in Q3
  Friday 2 December 2005 – 05:45
  Factory revenue in the external disk storage systems market worldwide enjoyed an on-year record growth of 12.5 percent to $3.9 billion in the third quarter of 2005, beating the previous record in 2001, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
• An Amazon storage space for developers
  Tuesday 14 March 2006 – 08:09
  Amazon Web Services today rolled out Amazon S3, a new storage service to help programmers house large amounts of data for their Web development projects.
• Researchers from Glasgow University announce breakthrough in data storage
  Wednesday 16 April 2008 – 04:50 in Hardware
  The last week has proved that anyone who believes today’s technology is out of date almost from the moment you get it out of the box was never more right than in 2008.
• Microsoft testing massive 500 MB online storage service
  Friday 29 June 2007 – 12:56
  Microsoft is holding closed beta testing of its upcoming Windows Live Folders service that gives users 500 MB of online storage space
• Ultra Portable Storage from Marvell and Seagate
  Tuesday 6 March 2007 – 12:49
  Your cell phone can only hold so much data - certainly not enough for memory intensive media applications.
• Microsoft Doubles Storage Capacity For Netbooks
  Thursday 4 September 2008 – 11:50
  Netbooks manufactured with Windows XP have had their 80 GB HDD restriction dropped by Microsoft in favor of a 160 GB limit
• Holographic storage to debut at "very end" of 2006
  Thursday 26 May 2005 – 12:39
  InPhase is edging closer to a commercial release of its holographic storage system "Tapestry". The technology will offer 300 GByte space on one disc and will be marketed as high-end archival storage solution - but may also appeal to some pro-sumers and small businesses.
• Storage enclosure packs four 2.5" harddrives into one 5.25" bay
  Tuesday 2 August 2005 – 12:31
  Fujitsu announced that Enhance Technology will use the firm's next-gen SATA harddrives in the QuadraPack 14, storage enclosure that can house up to four 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) harddrives mounted into a single 5.25" drive bay.