terabyte

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Windows 7 demo: Search tools

A terabyte here, a terabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking about some pretty serious information overload. It doesn't matter how well organized you are, once your collection of data files and other digital stuff gets big enough, you're going to need some help finding things. ZDNet's Ed Bott takes...

Tags: Search Tool, Terabyte, Tool, Microsoft Windows 7, Search, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott, Windows 7 demo, Search tools

Videos 2009-09-28

Long live the Sneakernet: Computing's most resilient network

When Amazon Web Services' latest---and arguably most valuable---service is a system that allows you to ship terabytes of data to the cloud via snail mail you just have to chuckle. Yes folks, for all the fancy talk of cloud computing, terabytes---not to mention petabytes---of data and technological advancement the Sneakernet...

Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Terabyte, Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Sneakernet, Gigabyte Data Set, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Manages Terabyte Data Growth Each Week While Driving Down Costs

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute WTSI wanted to ensure continued rapid accessibility to 650 researchers and the worldwide scientific community of 74 terabytes of Large Object LOB sequencing data in the WTSI's short read archive, while handling data growth of 4 terabytes to 10 terabytes weekly and cut hardware and system...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Terabyte, Business Intelligence, Storage, File Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-01

Leading Spanish Publishing Group Selects Atempo Time Navigator for Mac OS X to Protect 12 Terabytes of Data

Grupo SM is the leading Spanish publisher of educational and children's materials and literature and is also a preeminent publisher in Central and South America. Grupo SM needed to find an enterprise solution to protect 12 terabytes of data and easily scale to protect data growth of four terabytes per...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Terabyte, Atempo, Netscape Navigator, Grupo SM, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Internet

Case studies 2008-04-24

Photos: How five 500-GB hard drives stack up

In 1992, I drove 70 miles to snag a 200-megabyte IDE hard drive for $499. This weekend I bought 2.5 terabytes of hot-swappable SATA-300 storage for just under $730. That's more than 10,000 times the storage for the same dollar.

Tags: hard drive, storage, IDE, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-30

2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!

I still remember the first hard drive I ever bought. The year was 1992 and I had my friend drive me 70 miles in to the silicon valley for the deal of the month in hard drives. The prize at the end of that grueling drive without air...

Tags: Storage, Servers, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop

Blog posts 2007-04-30

2010: Data doubling every 11 hours

Martin Lamonica of news.com reports on IBMs release of FileNet P8 4.0, an update to the content management software that integrates better with IBM middleware (IBM purchased Filenet for $1.6 billion in August 2006) and support Java server standards, and Web interface for front-ending IBM content management servers....

Tags: Storage, IBM, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive

Hitachi says it's ready to roll on terabyte drives.

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., terabyte

Image galleries 2007-01-04

Addressing Storage Arrays Greater Than 2 Terabytes

With increasing hard disk drive sizes, the available array and volume capacity of a system has grown considerably. This paper discusses in detail the 2 terabytes limit under some operating systems and suggests workarounds currently available to achieve volume sizes greater than 2 terabytes. This paper has been written for...

Tags: Terabyte, Storage, Storage Array, AMCC, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Ip storage, UNIX, Open Source, Software

White papers 2006-07-28

Sun and Greenplum claim price-performance win with data warehouse appliance

Sun and Greenplum introduced a data warehouse appliance that uses the new Sun Fire X4500 server formerly known as Thumper and Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Bizgres MPP. Here's what the two companies claim about the appliance:Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competitionPerformance boost of 10 to...

Tags: GreenPlum

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Hard drive terabytes to increase at 37% a year between 2004 and 2009

Over 50% of all storage terabytes (38% of the worldwide storage revenue) shipped in 2009 will be based on capacity-oriented disk drives. Worldwide shipments of external disk system terabytes are expected to increase at a 2004-2009 compound annual growth rate CAGR of nearly 60%, while shipments of internal terabytes will...

Tags: terabyte

Blog posts 2005-07-06

100 mln books published in human history, 200K movies, 50K CD-ROMs

About 100 million different books have been published in history, according to the estimates from Carnegie Mellon University. About 28 million sit in the Library of Congress. On average, a book can be condensed to a megabyte in Microsoft Word. Thus, the books in the Library of Congress could fit...

Tags: terabyte

Blog posts 2004-08-09

New Data Warehouse to Buoy 7 Terabytes for State of Alaska

The Alaska Department of Revenue, Permanent Fund Dividend PFD Division, managed a multitude of disconnected and continually failing technologies, housing several terabytes of data, with only a six-person IT staff. It needed a new data infrastructure to support its operations, which includes the distribution of between U.S.$500 million and a...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Terabyte, Microsoft Corp., Image, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

Apple debuts new 21.5" and 27" iMac desktops; aluminum and glass; SD card slot

I wish I had $2,000 to spend, it sure does look sweetMaybe some day it will go on sale ..... I know, I'm dreaming.....It's Apple having fun with MSThe two companies do like to play with each other from time to time. What better time than when MS is...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Notebooks, SD card, desktop, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

3D HDTV without glasses? Hitachi has a prototype display for that.

Sounds like a great way to push file sizes to HUGE.Wait - it displays images at multiple angles? Sounds like a great way to push file sizes to HUGE.Forget terabyte drives - we're gonna have to switch to petabytes.That is, if each angle is going to need its own HD...

Tags: 3D, Sounds Like, Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-10-18

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...

Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH Improves Information Platform Performance by Up to 30%

Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH wanted to meet rising performance demands for processing approximately 70 million documents and a 7 terabyte data volume in full-text online databases and update systems to prepare for the sharp increase in both data quantity and number of users over the next few years, due to the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH, Performance Management, E-books, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

HP: New Quicklook, revamped Media Smart Server top fall product news

HP is making some fall announcements today - some new business desktops, some notebook and netbook lineup upgrades and some pretty cool design features, as well. But during a recent preview of the products, there were a couple that really stuck with me. One of them was...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Media, Server, 1TB Version, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate

WTFSeriously... "Carbon Offsets" is a scam in itself. This is beyond insane. You want to be "green", that's fine with me, but once they start imposing mandatory carbon taxes on anyone that's still dumb enough to manufacture things in the United States, it will just be another hidden tax...

Tags: Desktops, 3PARData Inc., carbon tax, storage

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate

3PAR wants to be known as the storage vendor that wants you to use less storage. Of course, that means it wants you to use THEIR storage. Craig Nunes, vice president of marketing for 3PAR, figures that businesses in the United States typically buy four times the...

Tags: 3PARData Inc., Mary Kay, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-11