Infrastructure

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) is planning capacity increases for its 2.5-inch hard-disk drives over the next 12 months, the company said Wednesday.

Canadians know Petro-Canada best as a retailer, but the Calgary-based multinational is also an energy explorer and producer with operations that stretch from the Alberta oil sands to drilling rigs in Europe, North Africa and Latin America.

Though e-mail filters have become effective at preserving our in-boxes, spam is an ever-growing problem. Sender ID, developed by Microsoft, Sendmail, and others, provides a way for e-mail senders and receivers to authenticate their messages and thus protect incoming or outgoing data.

Seagate is one of the first manufacturers to address the idea of external SATA with its new 500GB pushbutton drive.

The U.K.'s WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) is expanding its battery recycling trials with the launch of new retail take-back, community drop-off and postal collection plans for batteries.

A technology known as iSCSI has heralded a user-friendly, and cheaper storage alternative for cash-strapped businesses.

Language changes with time. But should today's language of virtual communication kill the King's English? That's the stark question we face.

Cisco Systems recently rolled out a pair of new switch products and an online scripting forum designed to help enterprises manage their growing data...