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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...