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Firewire SSD aims at
Camera Market
NAB,
LAS VEGAS- April 14, 2008 - Shining Technology, Inc. launched the
CitiDISK SSD aimed at the digital video camera market.
The 32GB
unit (140 minutes recording time) has a
FireWire interface,
weighs 6 ounces and can run for 3 hours using its internal battery. MSRP is
$1,800. ...Shining
Technology profile
SpyderHUB Brings eSATA Disks to MacBook Air
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -
April 14, 2008 - FirmTek, LLC today nnounced the SeriTek/SpyderHUB at
NAB 2008.
This ultra small, 4 ounce
USB /
Firewire hub enables
MacBook Air and other notebooks to connect to and boot from external eSATA
hard disks.
The SeriTek/SpyderHUB supports
JBOD,
RAID 0 and SPAN
(concatenate) formats. The RAID 0 setting includes the capability to create a
striped RAID set while SPAN allows 2
SATA
hard drives to be
combined into one large volume. Users can create a hardware RAID and partition
it with the "Master Boot Record" format to provide compatibility with
both Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
...FirmTek profile |
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and NAS Win Design Awards |
Hillsboro, OR -
April 10, 2008 -
LaCie announced today that it has been awarded 4 Red Dot Awards for
superior design across multiple product families.
Winning products
include the Neil Poulton designed
2big family of
SMB NAS, the Sam Hecht designed
Little Disk
family and the Ora-Ïto designed
Golden Disk.
These LaCie products were selected by an international jury of design experts
from among more than 7,000 entrants from 60 countries.
The Red Dot
Award, organized by Essen's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen since 1955, has
ranked amongst the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world.
...LaCie profile
Editor's
comments:- in 2007 the Red Dot awards for storage went to
Freecom.
Proavio Signs Benelux Distributor
Santa Fe Springs, CA - October
18, 2007 - Proavio announced today a strategic partnership with
optical system leader Duplidata.
This alliance will
establish a new European distribution point for Proavio's popular video products
within the Benelux creative markets.
...Proavio profile,
...Duplidata
New Portable RAID has FireWire/USB/eSATA
Interfaces
Santa Fe
Springs, CA - October 3, 2007 - Enhance Technology, Inc. today releases
a new range of 4-disk desktop RAID solutions with multiple interface
connectivity (FireWire, USB and eSATA) and user-selectable data protection.
The EnhanceRAID
T4H CR series is specifically designed for video surveillance projects
working with high resolution digital media recording. It comes with a stylish "H"
shaped handle for easy carrying and convenience it has removable disk trays,
individual disk key-locks, front secured door, hot-swappable cooling fan, and
user selectable RAID settings.
...Enhance
Technology profile | |
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Squeak! -
Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $150 billion
in 2005, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
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Bare Media
Exposed - Looking at the Contenders for Optical Media Archiving - article by
Plasmon
Optical archiving has become a legally mandated
storage technology in many markets. There are a lot of new optical media
technologies and packaging formats to choose from. But which ones will stand the
test of time in terms of data reliability and cost of ownership?
Plasmon, founded in 1987, has nearly 2 decades of experience as a
systems and media supplier in the optical archiving industry. This article by
Steve Tongish, Plasmon's Director of Marketing EMEA, looks at the critical
factors for the new products now available and those emerging so you can assess
which will work best for you. ... read the article,
...Plasmon profile,
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Sanitization
Methods for Cleaning Up Hard Disk Drives - article by Intelligent Computer
Solutions
Removing the data on old unwanted disk drives has
become a concern for all users. In 2005
Pointsec found that
they were able to read 7 out of 10 hard-drives bought over the Internet
at auctions such as eBay, for less than the cost of a McDonald's meal, all of
which had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted".
This article reviews the various methods available to sanitize hard disks along
with the advantages and disadvantages in each case....read the article,
...Intelligent Computer
Solutions profile,
disk sanitizers | |
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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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