IBM buys online storage provider

IBM will acquire 10-year-old Arsenal Digital Solutions, an online storage services and data protection company, matching moves by EMC and other storage players to add online storage service, according to eWeek..

Arsenal Digital and all 100 employees will become part of IBM Global Technology Services. IBM Global Technology services, at $32 billion in annual revenue, is IBM`s largest business unit.

Arsenal Digital, which has about 3 400 customers, serves mostly small to medium enterprises that want data protection and easy online access in response to increasing regulatory requirements and fast data growth.

Researchers have more than tripled the storage density of flash memory by adding layers of fold nanoparticles to their devices, says RapidOnline.

Scientists at Kookmin University, in Seoul, and the University of Melbourne have used gold nanoparticles in stacks to multiply the capacity of flash memories which normally contain a single layer of electric charge-trapping devices.

Using their technique of depositing the nanoparticles on alternating layers, with an insulating polymer onto a base of a silicon substrate coated with hafnium oxide, the researchers magnified the storage capacity of the devices.

Samsung is developing two storage technologies that should improve the capacity and size of future handheld devices, the company has revealed in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show next month, reports Electronista.

In its update, the electronics giant notes that it will soon produce 32Gb NAND flash chips. These do more than double the density of the 16Gb products first introduced last year: advancements in the controlling hardware make them twice as fast in transfers as earlier memory, Samsung explains.

The Korean firm has also successfully developed what it says is the first 1.3-inch portable hard drive.