Posted on January 11th, 2010 by OMas
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For those of us who love to curl up with a good book, there’s nothing quite like the experience of immersing yourself in the written word. OK, you know where this is headed so I won’t go all nostalgic on you. Suffice it to say that the look and feel, smell and heft of a pile of paper, bound up in leather or cloth, can be a thing of beauty. So, if a “real” book is so great, what does that make a tarted up handheld computer? Just a pile of plastic and bits of silicon? Not quite. Read more…
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by OMas
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by OMas
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Buried on Sony’s web site is the final death knell for the AIT data tape format. The declaration, dated 10-12-09, specifies the format’s End of Life (EOL) for the close of March 2010. Never a rousing success, Sony has decided to pull the plug on AIT drive sales “…after careful review and consideration.” According to the second and probably final notice, “AIT media sales will continue beyond March 2010 with no immediate plan of discontinuation.” Read more…
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by OMas
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Rich media producers rejoice! G-Technology by Hitachi, a brand know for their well–packaged, high performance storage products, announced this week that their entire 3.5″ product line will incorporate Hitachi’s 2TB, 7,200 RPM drives.
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by OMas
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It’s official: The DAT format isn’t dead yet. It’s still shuffling around, attempting to find a place at the backup table. Trouble is, more capacious and sweeter smelling formats have taken all the seats. This past week, Tandberg Data was previewing the latest generation of the DAT digital data format at the SNW Europe 2009 show in Frankfurt, but the big question is, “Why? Read more…
Posted on October 31st, 2009 by OMas
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The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry trade group for the promotion of all things Wi-Fi, announced recently that a branded version of new wireless peer–to–peer networking protocols are in the pipeline. Dubbed Wi-Fi Direct, “The Wi-Fi Alliance expects to begin certification for this new specification in mid-2010, and products which achieve the certification will be designated Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Wi-Fi Direct…Only Wi-Fi Alliance member companies will be able to certify devices to the new specification.” Read more…
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by OMas
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Hey sports fans! Oh, er, wrong blog…
Hello happy reader,
This turn of the platter brings us to some recent announcements concerning disk drives from Toshiba, WD and others plus, an interesting statistic… Read more…
Posted on October 13th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader,
Yesterday, Psystar Corp. announced an OEM Licensing program. They’ll begin certifying other manufacturer’s hardware to allow the licensing of Psystar’s “virtualization technology.” Psystar’s methodology, specifically engineered for Snow Leopard, allows for seamless operation of the Mac OS on generic Intel Hardware and would be offered on all Psystar–Certified machines.
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by OMas
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Yo happy reader,
Been up to my ears post–IDF but, a veritable plethora of storage–related announcements simply will not go away. So, let’s start whacking those storage moles by looking at FCoE, a new kid on the storage block. Read more…
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by OMas
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