LaCie today announced the Golden Disk, a newly designed device created by famed industrial designer Ora-Ïto. Offering up to 500GB* of storage to house your favorite music, photos or videos, this sleek, liquid-inspired device will become the focal point for any design conscience customer looking to add glitz to their work environment.

IBM announced that it has shipped the 25,000th high-end disk storage solution to the University of Pittsburgh. The new disk storage solution is part of a hardware, software and virtualization storage infrastructure to improve the learning environment for faculty and staff, enable the university to lower its total cost of ownership, improve data center energy efficiency and respond rapidly to storage infrastructure demands.

IDC forecasts that the Midsize Enterprise (MSE) external disk storage systems market will grow to $6.0B in 2011, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9%, which is almost twice as fast as the overall market1.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that for the top four market share owners for total disk storage in the second quarter 2007, IBM was the fastest growing vendor for the quarter, capturing 19.25% of the total disk storage market, growing its market share 5.5% compared to the first quarter 2007.