Moser Baer Announces
Certification for 6x Blu-ray Media
New Delhi, India - December
23, 2008 - Moser Baer today announced that it has received product
verification from the Blu-ray Disc Association for its next generation
blu-ray 1x-6x discs.
With this certification, Moser Baer has
become the first company outside Japan to develop and ship BDR 1x-6x media. The
next generation BD formats have a capacity ranging from 25GB to 50GB and offer
more than 5 to 10x the data storage capacity of standard DVD media. This
latest innovation from Moser Baer has come in close partnership with OM&T,
its Netherlands-based subsidiary.
...Moser Baer profile,
Storage ORGs,
optical storage drives
Toshiba Announces New High Capacity 1.8" flash SSDs
IRVINE, Calif.
- December 18, 2008 - Toshiba Corp. today announced a new family of
MLC flash SSDs with 256GB capacity in 2.5" and 128GB capacity in 1.8"
form factors.
Sampling in Q1 2009, the new SSDs will have R/W
speeds upto 240MB/s and 200MB/s respectively. ...Toshiba profile
Tandberg Marks 100,000 Disk Backup Systems Milestone
Oslo
Norway - December 8, 2008 - Tandberg Data has recently shipped its
100,000th RDX QuikStor (removable disk backup system) and more than 300 000
cartridges.
"Since its introduction (2 years ago) the
RDX QuikStor has conquered the removable disk market," says McClain Buggle,
product manager for disk and software at Tandberg Data. "With global OEM's
and Tandberg Data's world-wide channel embracing the product, we have achieved
strong quarter-on-quarter growth, and we are very proud to have reached this
milestone. We expect this growth to continue in future."
"Removable
hard disk drives (R-HDD) are a cost-effective and convenient backup solution
for SMBs" said Robert Amatruda, research director at
IDC "Tandberg Data's
shipment of its 100,000th RDX QuikStor drive unit represents a significant
milestone for the company, and illustrates the increasing adoption of its RDX
technology in the marketplace."
...Tandberg profile
, Tape drives,
Disk to disk backup / virtual
tape
Sun Launches Terabyte Tape Drive
SANTA
CLARA, CA - July 14, 2008 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced
imminent availability of its first terabyte tape drive.
The
T10000B
tape drive offers 1TB of native storage capacity on a single cartridge with
120MB/sec throughput. It uses the same physical tape drive for FICON and
Fibre Channel, allowing
users to switch media between SAN
and mainframe environments. The new drive supports WORM capability and
encryption. Pricing starts at $37,000.
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the
Dangers of Removable Storage Media - article by Pointsec
In
the early
James
Bond films of the 1960s, viewers were introduced to an array of implausible
(at the time) portable high tech spy gadgets. Nowadays we know from our own
everyday experience that something the size of a cigarette lighter can actually
be a video camera with its own wireless internet access.
The
proliferation of miniature high capacity storage devices creates a serious
problem for commercial and national security. This article provides an up to
date picture of the intrinsic dangers posed by current removable storage
technologies. ...read
the article, ...Pointsec
profile, Security,
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DVDs Have a Long Term Future as Digital Storage? - article |
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"CDs have already been around for 20 years - so that
may seem like forever and you may think that DVDs too will still be around just
as long. But my own view is that these are merely short term stepping stones to
something else in the same way that scrolls and loose collections of paper were
a transient phase which gave way to the bound book." ...read the article | |
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How Big is
the Market for Optical Storage Media?
According to a report
by BCC (RGB-317 Data
Storage Media: Materials, Technologies, and Markets) The optical storage media
is expected to reach $30.6 billion by 2010.
Emerging optical
storage media such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD, holographic and near-field storage are
not significant factors currently, but by 2010, they are expected to account for
as much as 4% of the market.
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