PC Pro received a funny question: “does a hard drive become heavier if there’s more data on it?”… [...]
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The mystery new product Dataram has been talking about appears to be a plug-in transparent caching appliance that can be inserted between a storage system and client systems; but this technology has already been patented by a company called Storspeed. [...] With VMworld starting next week, there’s lots of virtualization-related storage news. Here’s a quick summary of the main items for today: Continue reading Lots of virtualization-related news It must be Online Backup Week; the press releases from backup suppliers keep coming in. Today’s news comes from KeepVault, which announces their latest software version (3.15) is now fully compatible with Windows 7. It also adds an option to keep a local backup in addition to the online copy of your files. KeepVault’s [...] SOS Online Backup has partnered with Wiley Publishing (known for their “dummies” books) and 4D Global Partners (marketing several other “for dummies” products) to market SOS’ Online Backup product under the label Online Backup for Dummies. Supermicro, one of the largest manufacturers of “white box” servers sold by smaller server vendors, has just announced the availability of several products supporting the new SAS 2.0 standard, increasing the transfer speed from 3.0 to 6.0 Gbps. Continue reading Supermicro also shipping SAS 2.0 products PC Pro has posted ten fun ways to dispose of old hard drives. The top three: 3. Burning the disk with a welding torch But the hammer might not be the best solution: as you can see in the video below, it takes quite a bit of smashing to break it. Hard disks are hard to destroy! Apacer Europe has just announced three Solid State Drives targeted at gamers and others looking for high performance; the new A7 Turbo SSD A7202 is available in 64, 128 and 256GB capacities.  A7 Turbo SSD A7202 Their press release sums up the advantages and main specifications very nicely: Continue reading Apacer offers new SSDs targeted at gamers Earlier this month, a relatively unknown company called BeSang Inc announced they have successfully developed a multi-layer stacked 3D circuit. From their press release:
 Tohiba 3D Flash rendering Think it sounds a bit too good to be true? It is! Continue reading 3D Flash Memory coming sooner than expected? Channel Insider has a nice promo for Isilon, detailing how former NetApp channel manager Leonard Iventosch has been working on building a better sales channel for the Isilon products. He has both been updating their channel discount model and working on partnerships with companies such as Commvault, VMware and others; especially the former has been a big hit with their partners: Continue reading What’s more important: your product or your channel? |
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