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Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others. Microsoft touted a lower-cost backup and recovery capabi...
Microsoft and Intel yesterday lined up behind Toshiba and its next-generation DVD technology, called HD DVD, in a move that seems significant because of the combined influence of the two industry giants, but which in fact, one analyst said, will likely have a negligible effect. "The announcement wil...
Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry. At a press conference held in Seoul, Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, Samsung's semiconductor business president and CEO, introduced a 16 Gb NAND flash memory, a 7.2 Megapixel CMOS image sens...
According to reports today, Samsung has announced it will bridge the gap between two rival next-generation DVD formats by building a machine that is compatible with both. Sony, the leading backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, the leading backer of rival HD-DVD, have been go...
Let's be honest: Backup is an unloved necessity. It costs money and takes time. Restores are time-consuming and frustrating. But the fact is you cannot live without them -- data must be backed up, it must be protected. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offers a way to backup and restore data faster -...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format. Analysts observed that it a...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format. Analysts observed that it a...
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, hailing the device -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes among competitors such as Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or...
Y2K may be a distant memory, but there are plenty of other threats against corporate IT systems. In fact, today's list of disaster threats includes more than just hurricanes and blackouts -- chemical attacks and terrorist bombings have become a stark reality. Although fires, floods and earthquakes a...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics yesterday claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, impro...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics today claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, improved ...
Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly. "In many organizations, few procedures are in place that outline how to manage e-mail correspondences, and often compan...
It's a good time to be in the storage business. There seems to be plenty of revenue for the top players in the face of growing demand for data protection. Likewise, there are a slew of reputable vendors giving IT managers market options galore. A quick storage industry snapshot shows the worldwide m...
Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology yesterday said it would release a 2.5-inch disc drive with 160 GB capacity in the first quarter of 2006. The drive is built on perpendicular recording technology, a technology that stands data bits on end on the disc platter rather than flat to the surface as with...
Samsung Electronics yesterday announced it has begun mass producing high-density NAND flash devices. Analysts predict a fall in memory card prices is not too far off. NAND flash memory is the chip technology used to store data and applications inside cell phones, MP3 players, and industrial equipmen...