Microprocessors are the pearls in the IT oyster. When they’re smoothly designed—like Oracle’s powerful new SPARC M6—they’re beautiful to behold. (For engineers, anyway.) In contrast, a chip that’s not ...

I got an email from a reader this week asking about how much data she could expect to use if she switched to streaming on her TV instead of paying for cable. Like me, this reader was bundling TV and ...

I Today Nimbus Data announced the ExaDrive DC100, the largest capacity (100 terabytes) solid state drive ever produced. Featuring more than 3x the capacity of the closest competitor, the ExaDrive ...

With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs, enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat. Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

Last month Samsung revealed its latest record-breaking large capacity solid state drive, cramming 30 TB into a 2.5-inch drive format unit. Now Nimbus Data has quickly smashed Samsung's benchmark ...

Megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte. We hear these words all the time in relation to the Internet, but many people may not realize which is bigger, what they are used for and what you can do with them.

There’s no word on when you’ll be able to buy it, or to what extent you’ll need to mortgage your home to afford one, but today SanDisk revealed a prototype of a one-terabyte SDXC card that will help ...

Here’s an interesting data point in the debate over Hadoop clusters versus data warehouses: The cost per terabyte can be in the six figures in a data warehouse, but only a few hundred dollars in ...

If you’ve begun limiting your Netflix viewing because your home is one of the minority of users laboring under a Comcast data cap, good news: Comcast said late Tuesday that it has raised the cap to a ...

A terabyte is a lot of data... but data needs are growing. Many corporations have a need for high-speed networks, and even with the best of broadband, you can get a respectable 150 megabits a second ...

Dropbox is so widely used that it's practically a synonym for cloud storage and file sharing, but the company is being squeezed on price and storage options by bigger competitors such as Google and ...