Bio

Lucas Mearian graduated from Northeastern University's School of Journalism with a Bachelor of Science degree. He has written for the Boston Globe, the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass., and was the editor-in-chief of the Waltham Daily News Tribune in Waltham, Mass. Since joining Computerworld in 2000, Lucas has covered primarily data storage issues, with secondary beats in disaster recovery and financial services IT. In 2005, Lucas was promoted to editor of Computerworld's Storage Channel. Prior to his career in journalism, Lucas served 8 years in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Latest Posts by Lucas

I’m guilty. When I read the reports of Microsoft’s Surface tablets this week, I did a big internal eye roll and thought, “Microsoft copies Apple again.”

Then today, I saw a very funny post, and it reminded me that Microsoft actually came out with the Tablet PC in 2002; it’s just that no one cared at the time.

June 20, 2012 2:42 PM EDT

Over the holidays, my Facebook page was hacked and a phishing attack was launched using the "chat" feature, where my friends were contacted and told my wife and I had been mugged and that we needed money. It just goes to show that even with an alphanumeric password, your account information is not safe.

January 03, 2012 4:27 PM EST

Today, it was narrowly reported that C programming language inventor and Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie died after a long illness. He was 70. Earlier this month, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs also died after a long illness.

It’s quite the juxtaposition.

October 13, 2011 3:48 PM EDT

On the exhibition floor of SNW in Orlando, I shot some video of the latest solid state drive and PCIe flash card technology -- oh, and a $240,000 Lamborghini.

October 12, 2011 10:59 AM EDT

At SNW, Fusion-io set up a video wall with 4,500 streams all being fed through a single SSD card

April 12, 2011 3:02 PM EDT

A California judge ruled today that former EMC top executive David Donatelli cannot oversee storage operations at HP due to a noncompete clause with his former employer.

June 02, 2009 5:25 PM EDT

EMC employee Nick Glasgow has Leukemia and efforts to cure the disease by transfusing blood platelets and antibiotic treatments have so far failed. What he needs is a bone marrow transplant. The technology community is rallying around the cause of getting as many possible donors to submit a simple sample to the national donor base.

May 29, 2009 2:40 PM EDT

While its price is still higher than most SSDs, Intel at least is making an effort to be more consumer friendly.

April 27, 2009 5:51 PM EDT

EMC is building up hype around a worldwide announcement on April 14, and most rumors put the money on it being centered around partnering with Cisco and offering enterprises in-house cloud computing.

April 02, 2009 4:47 PM EDT

Let's face it, Woz is a nice guy with whom we can identify and who is vastly more entertaining than those other model types gliding across the floor.

March 24, 2009 12:19 PM EDT
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