Moneycontrol » News » Business » Business News

IBM details next generation of storage innovation

Published on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:25 | Source : Moneycontrol.com

Updated at Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 15:49

Like this story, share it with millions of investors on M3

Share on Tumblr

RELATED NEWS

Nifty

BSE | NSE 25/05/12

Are Mutual Funds betting on Nifty?

IBM today is detailing the future of the data center led by projected advances in Intelligent Storage devices and Storage-Class Memory. The event is timed to mark the 50^th anniversary this month of IBM's introduction of the 350 Disk Storage Unit and the 305 RAMAC Computer, regarded as one of the most significant products advancing storage and information technology. Since IBM introduced the first hard disk storage 50 years ago, IBM has been on a path of constant progress and innovation.

"IBM helped kick off the storage revolution fifty years ago this month with the introduction of the 305 RAMAC Computer," said Mr. Shailesh Agarwal, Country Manager - IBM Storage, IBM India. "Today, we're working on the next generation of advances that will drive storage innovation forward for the next fifty years."

The storage needs of businesses are growing dramatically. When IBM introduced the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit in September 1956, its five megabytes could store an image of DaVinci's Mona Lisa painting. By comparison, the IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo, introduced this August, can store up to 320 terabytes of information, which is the equivalent of all the images held in the Guggenheim, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and more. Another example, in 1956 the 350 Disk Storage Unit could hold the digital equivalent of the collected works of Shakespeare, while today's DS8000 can hold more than 76 million copies of Shakespeare's works.

Scientists and researchers today are outlining a number of key projects, including:

Storage-Class Memory - A new approach to creating faster storage, IBM's Storage Class Memory (SCM) project is focused on the creation of low-cost, high-performance, high-reliability solid-state random-access storage that could compete with or replace disk drives and/or flash memory. Possible applications of this technology would include rapid-booting PCs, which could start up in a second or two after power on, not minutes like today's current systems.

Contd on page 2...

1 2 Next page »