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Season's Greetings From The Biz-news Team
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Season's Greetings From The Biz-news Team
Everyone at storage.biz-news would like to thank you for your support in 2008. We hope you will continue to enjoy the latest Storage industry news and analysis in the year to come.
Best Wishes For The Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year
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Season's Greetings From The Biz-news Team
Everyone at smartphone.biz-news would like to thank you for your support in 2008. We hope you will continue to enjoy the latest Smartphone industry news and analysis in the year to come.
Best Wishes For The Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year
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Nominations Open For The Outstanding VoIP Person and Product Of 2008
With 2008 fast drawing to a close biz-news.com is seeking YOUR help in choosing outstanding candidates for the titles of Man/Woman of the Year and Product/Service of the Year.We would like you to nominate an individual and/or product/service that you feel has contributed greatly to the VoIP sector over the past 12 months.
The winner will be selected from the nominations submitted by our readers – professionals and technology enthusiasts in the industry.
Obviously, as this is a crowd-sourcing survey, we need your participation.Spreading word of this survey to friends and colleagues will also ensure a wider participation in the poll and will give a much more accurate result.
If you have more than one nomination for either category you can make multiple submissions – but you can only vote once for any person or product.
We will publish the results in early 2009 and share the raw data with the community. (Personal information about contributors will not be disclosed).
After a year like 2008 there are plenty of good candidates – so please give it some thought and send your Man/Woman and/or Product nominations to us.
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Nominations Open For The Outstanding Smartphone Person and Product Of 2008
With 2008 fast drawing to a close biz-news.com is seeking YOUR help in choosing outstanding candidates for the titles of Man/Woman of the Year and Product/Service of the Year.We would like you to nominate an individual and/or product/service that you feel has contributed greatly to the Smartphone sector over the past 12 months.
The winner will be selected from the nominations submitted by our readers – professionals and technology enthusiasts in the industry.
Obviously, as this is a crowd-sourcing survey, we need your participation.
Spreading word of this survey to friends and colleagues will also ensure a wider participation in the poll and will give a much more accurate result.If you have more than one nomination for either category you can make multiple submissions – but you can only vote once for any person or product.
We will publish the results in early 2009 and share the raw data with the community. (Personal information about contributors will not be disclosed).
After a year like 2008 there are plenty of good candidates – so please give it some thought and send your Man/Woman and/or Product nominations to us.
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Nominations Open For The Outstanding HDTV Person and Product Of 2008
With 2008 fast drawing to a close biz-news.com is seeking YOUR help in choosing outstanding candidates for the titles of Man/Woman of the Year and Product/Service of the Year.We would like you to nominate an individual and/or product/service that you feel has contributed greatly to the HDTV sector over the past 12 months.
The winner will be selected from the nominations submitted by our readers – professionals and technology enthusiasts in the industry.
Obviously, as this is a crowd-sourcing survey, we need your participation.
Spreading word of this survey to friends and colleagues will also ensure a wider participation in the poll and will give a much more accurate result.If you have more than one nomination for either category you can make multiple submissions – but you can only vote once for any person or product.
We will publish the results in early 2009 and share the raw data with the community. (Personal information about contributors will not be disclosed).
After a year like 2008 there are plenty of good candidates – so please give it some thought and send your Man/Woman and/or Product nominations to us.
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Nominations Open For The Outstanding Storage Person and Product Of 2008
With 2008 fast drawing to a close biz-news.com is seeking YOUR help in choosing outstanding candidates for the titles of Man/Woman of the Year and Product/Service of the Year.We would like you to nominate an individual and/or product/service that you feel has contributed greatly to the Storage sector over the past 12 months.
The winner will be selected from the nominations submitted by our readers – professionals and technology enthusiasts in the industry.
Obviously, as this is a crowd-sourcing survey, we need your participation.
Spreading word of this survey to friends and colleagues will also ensure a wider participation in the poll and will give a much more accurate result.If you have more than one nomination for either category you can make multiple submissions – but you can only vote once for any person or product.
We will publish the results in early 2009 and share the raw data with the community. (Personal information about contributors will not be disclosed).
After a year like 2008 there are plenty of good candidates – so please give it some thought and send your Man/Woman and/or Product nominations to us.
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Blu-Ray Takes On Pirates And Old HD Rival In China
Blu-Ray discs will go on sale in China for the first time today – officially that is.While it’s been possible to buy dubious pirated version of the high-def format for some time, today marks the start of what is expected to be a major push by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment into the vast Chinese market.
Discs will be priced in the region of RMB200 (USD $30) and will be available online and in-store.
The initial movie offering isn’t extensive – just 30 titles will be available – including Hancock, the recent Spiderman movies and classics including Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
To coincide with the introduction of the discs, Sony is also launching its BDP-S350 Blu-ray player into the Chinese market.
It’s an environment where rampant piracy of high-definition discs, among other things, is already an issue.
Authorities in China recently seized over 800 illegally pirated Blu-ray titles. The discs contained movies ripped from Blu-ray to DVD using AVCHD compression.The fakes, seized in Shenzhen, were packaged in realistic-looking Blu-ray boxes, complete with authenticating holograms.
The bust has highlighted flaws in the robust copy-protection that Blu-ray is supposed to have, although the Motion Picture Association International said this was the first ever seizure of this type of disc.
Sony Pictures is the first Hollywood studios to release films on the high definition format in China but both Warner Brothers and Disney are in talks with local replicators and distributors in order to release their Blu-ray titles in the country as well.
But pirates aren’t the only opposition Blu-ray is likely to face.
Production of China’s self-developed high-definition optical disc format – China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD) – is expected to begin production before the end of the year.
Shanghai United Optical Disc has completed its first production line for the modified version of the Toshiba-supported HD DVD format that lost out to Blu-ray.
But with no Hollywood studios on board, it faces an uphill battle with (at least) three studios now preparing Blu-ray releases in China.
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Researchers Opt For COPAN's Fast Access and Security
One of the world’s leading life science research institutes announced today that it has chosen a COPAN Systems-based storage solution to meet its demanding data storage needs.The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has a strong record of innovation in the molecular biology of disease.
Researching, developing, testing and delivering these medical breakthroughs require generating, analyzing and retaining huge quantities of data.
This critical data is not necessarily accessed regularly but must be kept instantly available at all times for crucial analysis.
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland Dean Flanders, head of informatics at FMI, said no other company on the market could match the COPAN Systems solution in such a demanding environment.
“Our competitive review found that no other system could provide this kind of high performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness to meet our persistent data needs," he said.
"This means we can provide fast access to a vast amount of data in a very small footprint.”
Located in Basel, Switzerland, a large proportion of FMI’s life science data is generated from microscopy, but new projects led the institute to seek a storage solution to support a wider range of data.
A single new piece of laboratory equipment can radically alter the organization’s storage needs.
For example, two new Illumina Genome Analyzers are each capable of producing up to two terabytes of data per week.
In this environment, FMI sought a cost-effective solution for backing up and restoring multi-terabyte file systems while coping with limited power, cooling and space resources.
The institute, part of the Novartis Research Foundation, needed to innovate beyond a traditional file server system which leaves too much persistent data on expensive tier one storage, straining existing infrastructure.
A traditional HSM system was out of the question since the high volume and file size of FMI’s life science data meant a tape system would present slow access rates, data integrity issues and no online access.
FMI was also concerned about pressure on space, power and cooling resources as their data production grows and their system scales.
To meet these challenges, FMI selected COPAN Systems’ disk-based Virtual Tape Library, because of its fast access times with the security and reliability of disk.The new highly scalable tiered file system has almost no impact to the existing cooling and power infrastructure.
By migrating persistent data to the new COPAN Systems solution, FMI frees up more expensive tier one storage for its original purpose – modifying and storing quickly changing transactional data.
Some of the key benefits of the new system for FMI are:
- Scalability: The system currently holds 40 terabytes of data but can scale in one rack to 896 terabytes without redesigning or changing cooling requirements.
- Simplicity: By writing a file to FMI’s HSM file system within a defined period of time, the file can be automatically copied to the COPAN Systems MAID platform and another copy created to tape in a remote location as required.
- Efficiency: COPAN Systems’ ultra-dense disk configurations are enhanced using Enterprise MAID technology. COPAN Systems powers off disks that have no outstanding IO requests, thus reducing power consumption by around 85 percent.