Western Digital seems to be sticking to its guns with traditional spinning platter hard drives whilst all around them are falling to the guile of those new fangled Solid State Drives and their wicked no-moving-parts voodoo.

'Competitive battleground' taking shape as data proliferates.

New technology claims to cuts storage array power and cooling costs in half.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

IoDrive functions as a local storage device.

IBM launched first magnetic hard disk on 13 September 1956.

Sun's latest quarterly products announcement emphasises servers, workstations and storage in a growing push towards utility computing and lower cost networking, company executives said.

Solid state storage vendors have been breaking records with a new generation of solid state drives (SSDs)..

General Electric (GE) has unveiled a new storage method which is said to allow for 500GB of storage space on a single compact disc..

Extra capacity for businesses and Google Apps users.

Yahoo squeeze ahead of Google in the race for size.

'Stripped-down' device aimed at home users seeking a simple back-up solution.

And the people virtually rejoiced

Device for branch offices and small firms.

Combined offering promises secure wide-area replication of tape data.

And IT may be making the problem worse.

Video-on-demand servers running smoothly.

Storage firm Seagate has unveiled what it claims is the fastest desktop hard disk drive.

Central storage device to back up and distribute digital media across thehome.