WD has unveiled a high-speed network storage system intended as a cost-effective, centralised storage for small office and home networks.
Its first foray into the small-office network storage market, WD is hoping to introduce a new class of users to centralised storage systems that were once only available in large companies with big IT departments.
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Desktop computing remains the largest market for hard drives but the young upstart – consumer electronics – is the fastest growing.
Storage.biz-news.com spoke to Daniel Mauerhofer, of storage giant Western Digital, to find out more about this evolving market.
Faced with 100 per cent year-on-year data growth, the London council of Hillingdon’s IT team has decided to virtualise its servers.
It took the decision after being faced with the rapid growth of employees’ e-mail boxes, the need to retain documents such as benefits assessments records, and the increased use of digital images in planning applications and property and highway inspections.
SanDisk has introduced a 32-GB CompactFlash card aimed at digital photographers and videographers.
At twice the size of SanDisk’s previous largest product the latest Extreme III CompactFlash is the company’s largest CF storage device.
WD has launched a 500 GB capacity portable USB drive that is designed to make it easy to store a half a terabyte of music, videos or photos while being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
My Passport Elite portable drives are equipped with software to automatically back up consumers’ ever-growing collection of personal media and digital files.
Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has announced that it is the first to demonstrate 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA) functionality, along with converged networking and storage functionality, within VMware virtualized server environments.
Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has deployed the ExaStore Clustered NAS System to serve as the storage back-end for its production and distribution of French football’s key Championship matches via its mobile network.
Orange’s 5.9 million subscribers will be receiving the French League 1 football on their mobile phones via VOD and general broadcast.
IBM has announced two IBM System x servers – the System x 3950 M2 and x3850 M2 – both of which feature new six-core processor technology from Intel.
Among their benchmark achievements is becoming the first single x86 server to burst through the 1 million transactions per minute barrier on a TPC-C benchmark.
High-Definition Storage experts, Pivot3, have announced the first public demonstration of its Serverless Computing platform at ASIS International 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The new platform, which runs NVR software on the storage node rather than requiring its own dedicated server, will be demonstrated in three locations at the show at the World Congress Convention Center.
In Silicon Valley, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers have traditionally been regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
Now computer data center experts are being shown new respect, according to The New York Times, and the trend is set to continue.