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An online report suggests Microsoft will soon be offering Xbox 360 console owners the ability to plug in USB devices, though any such device would first require a compatibility test. - Microsoft is planning to announce USB storage support for its Xbox 360 game console, citing the ...

Old-fashioned flywheel power systems are providing hospital data centers with clean, green backup power using a centuries-old technology. - NASHVILLE, Tenn. Not too many power-supply companies are offering old-fashioned kinetic-energy, flywheel-based UPS (uninterruptible power supply) options in their product lines. After all, because flywheel technology goes back to ancient times, it's ...

Growth in the population of unstructured files will soon drive 75 percent of the demand for new storage capacity. By providing an allocation of cloud storage to users, storage and desktop services managers can effectively place storage management of user files into the hands of the departments, with built-in chargeback ...

NAS storage specialist Buffalo Technology links up with NovaStor to provide cost-conscious businesses with backup software solutions. - Buffalo Technology, a manufacturer of wired and wireless networking and network and direct attached storage solutions, announced a partnership with data protection and backup software manufacturer NovaStor. The alliance will bundle the ...

Storage specialist QNAP offers two new models from its Business Series Turbo line, the 1U rack-mounted, 4-drive models, the TS-459U-SP and TS-459U-RP, both compatible with VMware's vSphere4 virtualization platform. - Network attached storage manufacturer QNAP announced an expansion of its business series of servers with the release of ...

At its optimum, autonomic tiering actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data. - 3PARr, which has established much of its identity around the idea of thin provisioning for data center storage, ...

Cost-conscious businesses looking to maximize the amount of data storage available might turn to IceWeb and the company's Iplicity platform. - Storage solutions and online cloud computing application services provider IceWeb announced the launch of its Iplicity Data Storage platform, which enables the incorporation of available disk storage resident in non-Iplicity-based legacy ...

At the CeBIT show, Intel unveiled an Atom platform aimed at storage devices for small offices and homes. The new platform is the latest push by Intel to expand the reach of the Atom chip, which was initially intended for netbooks but now is finding its way into entry-level desktops, ...

Overall sales were down slightly year over year; key factors were the world economic recession and, ironically, the continuing overall improvement in the quality of new-generation storage hardware and software. - Researchers IDC and Gartner both came out with their quarterly data storage markets reports March 5, and ...

CEBIT, HANNOVER, Germany, March 4, 2010 – Intel Corporation today launched its first Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform optimized for networked home and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices.

A significant new factor regarding NexentaStor 3.0 is that it is the first storage software to offer inline deduplication at the gateway for Tier 1 storage, CEO Evan Powell told eWEEK. - Nexenta Systems introduced an ugrade to its frontline NexentaStor enterprise package March 2 that includes ...

Storage specialist Netgear expands its family of ReadyNAS storage solutions with the addition of the ReadyNAS 3100 and ReadyNAS 4200, aimed at cost-conscious businesses. - Networking solutions specialist Netgear announced the release of two high-performance network storage platforms optimized for storage virtualization applications, aimed at small to medium-size businesses. ...

Iron Mountain's Digital Record Center for Medical Images is designed to back up and archive digital medical information, which often includes large, bulky X-ray files. Due to the sensitivity and importance of medical data, another level of redundancy is built into the package. - As data storage ...

Oracle announced two new health care IT solutions, including a multiple-use data repository for health care data and a health care analytics package, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference Exhibition. The new software seeks to provide health care organizations with an end-to-end solution, mimicking Oracles ...

Overland Storage's new NEO E Series enterprise tape backup and archive packages use the company's homegrown and updated LTO-5 software, which consolidates disk and tape storage and essentially doubles the capacity of previous Overland deployments. - Eighteen months ago, disk and tape storage maker Overland Storage was ...

The new switches will replace 4GB units from Cisco over time. They contain 20 Fibre Channel ports apiece and can be stacked up to six per cluster to scale out a storage area network, which would top out at 120 ports and up to 24 20G-bps interswitch link ports. ...

The on-premises EMC Atmos system is designed to help enterprise IT managers automate and optimize the distribution of unstructured business data across geographically dispersed locations. - EMC has upgraded the hardware and information management software in its Atmos cloud infrastructure package. Atmos, launched in May 2009, offers cloud ...

Virsto (the name comes from virtual storage ) wants to do for virtualized storage systems what the hypervisor did for servers: Make them more efficient, so they handle workloads faster and in a less-costly fashion. - SUNNYVALE, Calif. Startup Virsto on Feb. 16 introduced both itself and ...

Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and uses publicly available cloud resources -- namely, Amazon S3, Iron Mountain Digital, Nirvanex and Rackspace -- to take care of all the cloud storage. - Imagine if you or your business had a ...

Are you still filing all your papers and putting them inside large storage or filing cabinets? If you need to find some data that was entered into a file and then pushed into storage, what do you do then? You probably go into a large storage room, go through dusty ...