Data Storage Industry News

We first started providing information on this website about all the latest worldwide data storage activities back in the early 1990's, when the Internet was in its infancy and it was not easy to keep up to date on what was happening in this fast-moving industry. Now, however, you can easily find on any number of websites all the latest news about data storage technology, the market and the companies involved. We have therefore decided to provide here only those announcements and news items which we believe are of major importance to the data storage industry.

IBM creates working racetrack memory device

10 April 2008 (Almaden, CA) -- A new type of computer memory that has for years been touted as the future of data storage has finally been demonstrated. Researchers at IBM have finally constructed the first "racetrack" memory device .......

Magnetic spin breakthrough to boost data storage

31 August 2007 (Almaden, CA) -- IBM researchers have used scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) techniques to manipulate individual iron atoms and arrange them with atomic precision on a .......

InPhase begins shipping holographic storage

12 February 2007 (Longmont, CO) -- InPhase Technologies Inc. announced today it will start bulk shipments of the industry's first holographic disc drive this July in a format able to store 300GB of .......

Freescale begins selling 4 Mbit MRAM

10 Jul 2006 (Austin, Texas) -- Freescale today started commercial shipments of its 4-Mbit magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM).....

Storage project grants available in the UK

18 October 2005 (London, UK) -- The UK Government announces a competition for £10m of funding to support projects in the area of Data and Content Storage, Management, Retrieval and Analysis ......

Inphase Technologies introduces world's first holographic drive prototype

January 4, 2005 (Longmont, CO) -- InPhase Technologies today announced a breakthrough in data storage with the world's first prototype of a holographic storage drive......

Toshiba claims hard drive storage record

15 Dec 2004 (Japan) -- Toshiba has developed what it claims are the world's first hard disk drives based on perpendicular recording....

Polycarbonate film ready for holography

June 15, 2004 (Leverkusen) -- Bayer MaterialScience AG has laid the foundations for a new storage material enabling data to be stored on polycarbonate film by means of holography....

IBM's Millipede demonstrates terabit storage achievement

June 2002 (USA) -- The thermomechanical storage project code-named Millipede by IBM has demonstrated a data storage density of 1 trillion bits per square inch....