MANHASSET, N.Y. — Several electronics companies announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Thursday (Sept. 9) they would collaborate to define a standard interface for small form factor ...

It is not uncommon to see computer terms getting mixed up in everyday discussions. For instance, I regularly hear people referring to a flash drive as simply a "USB," or a full computer system as a ...

The software in a USB-based portable storage device that, when plugged into a computer, exposes the device's contents in the same manner as a built-in hard drive. USB-based devices such as flash ...

Software-defined storage is quickly catching on as a top technology trend in the storage industry, but the exact meaning of the term, and indeed whether it represents a new paradigm or just another ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...

Hardware that stores data without power until intentionally erased. Since the 1960s, the hard drive has been the computer's internal and external storage units; however, solid state drives (SSDs) are ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A standards group has kicked off work on an effort to define an application programming interface for management software running on a storage switch. The interface could become a ...