Nokia backs storage standard

Nokia joined other electronics companies in backing a faster flash-memory format that would let different devices use the same storage cards, says Bloomberg.com.

The proposed universal flash storage standard provides quick data transfers to devices such as mobile phones and cameras without using a lot of power, Espoo, Finland-based Nokia said today in a statement.

Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Micron Technology, Spansion and Texas Instruments also endorsed the standard, which was proposed by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association.

IBM today announced it has shipped 25 000 high-end disk storage solutions to the University of Pittsburgh, according to CNNMoney.com.

The new disk storage solution is part of a hardware, software and virtualisation storage infrastructure to improve the learning environment for faculty and staff, enable the university to lower its total cost of ownership, improve data centre energy efficiency and respond rapidly to storage infrastructure demands.

In the past, the technology needs of the university, student records, e-mail, archives, school records, employee information and mission-critical applications, resided on disparate storage solutions that were expanding beyond the capacity of the current infrastructure.

HP has reclaimed the top position in worldwide total disk storage systems revenue from IBM, with 20.1% market share, according to market data for the first calendar quarter of 2007 released today by IDC, says Al Bawaba.

HP additionally held the number one position in several other categories including the open storage area network (SAN) market, which includes fibre channel and iSCSI, where HP was the leader in open SAN shipments with 14.6% share worldwide.

In the internal disk storage systems category, HP owned the top position, with 35.8% revenue share.