Data Management

If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap. There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media...

Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said. In ...

With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local...

Imperva specializes in data security and compliance solutions for the data center. Its product line provides an automated and transparent approach to protecting and controlling sensitive data throughout transactional data systems. The Imperva database and Web application appliances are deployed in l...

IBM will begin investing $1 billion per year across its businesses to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of information technology. As part of its "Project Big Green" plan that includes new products and services, IBM aims to sharply reduce data center energy consumption and to transform the...

IBM has developed a method of assembling microchips using nanotechnology, the company stated Thursday, a potentially revolutionary process for insulating tiny wires by allowing them to assemble themselves around air gaps. This advance could make next-generation chips dramatically faster and more ene...

Corsair has launched Flash Survivor, a new line of rugged USB drives that are designed to withstand major shocks. The 4 GB version lists for $59.99, while the 8 GB drive -- which incorporates higher-speed IC-paired memory and a faster controller -- costs $129.99. The new drives feature 256-bit encry...

Samsung has claimed to be the first electronics manufacturer to begin mass production of a 16 GB NAND flash memory chip to be used in digital music players, mobile phones and digital cameras. The South Korean electronics maker said the new chips are being put into mass production using 51-nanometer ...

Gadget geeks engaged in the digital equivalent of reading chicken entrails to determine which high-def format the market will ultimately embrace received mixed signals from the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps on Monday, which were promptly rebutted by the opposition. First came the news that 70 percent of ...

Toshiba on Monday announced it is adding a new high-capacity portable hard drive to its already well-established product roster of televisions, laptops and DVD players. The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, which comes in capacities ranging from 100 GB to 200 GB, has the largest capacity...

Samsung has bulked up its single-disc line with a new range of 2.5-inch drives with capacities of up to 160 GB. The new SpinPoint M5 drives products are intended for mobile computing devices including notebook and tablet PCs. They are four percent lighter and 15 percent quieter -- both important fac...

Fabrik, a provider of storage and online content-sharing solutions, announced the expansion of its family of Simple Tech SimpleDrive desktop hard drives with the addition of a new line of external storage devices. The drives boast up to 1 terabyte of storage and also include 2 GB of free online stor...

In May, Yahoo will go to infinity and beyond. The world's largest free e-mail provider will give its 250 million or so users unlimited e-mail storage, up from its current offer of a single gigabyte. After the system is put in place, Yahoo inboxes will apparently be impossible to fill. The offer tru...

One of the most astounding IT stories of the week comes courtesy of a computer technician from the Alaska Department of Revenue who reportedly wiped out a disc drive containing an account worth $38 billion. The unnamed computer technician, while reportedly doing routine maintenance work, accidentall...

Fujitsu Computer Systems unveiled two new models in its notebook line that come with something special -- solid-state hard drives that make the computers more durable for work in the field, according to the company. The two new machines, the LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 models, are now availab...

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