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Here you will find up-to-date news, expert insight/perspective/technical analysis of data storage, recovery, backup, and archiving packages that you need to design, deploy, monitor, manage, secure and maintain your storage resources. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes production-ready, nearline storage and deep freeze-type archiving. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes disk-based, solid-state, tape-based and online storage; Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS); iSCSI and Fibre Channel; and fabric networks. It also includes storage management software, master data management, data deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning and single-instance storage. eWEEK Data Storage coverage follows many vendors, including EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Seagate Technology, SanDisk, Fujitsu, 3PAR, Toshiba, Sun Microsystems, Terradata, Brocade, NEC, Samsung and Lefthand Networks.
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The court-rule amendments, known as the FRCP and placed into effect on Dec. 1, 2006, say businesses must be able to quickly find and make available relevant data when required by a court. Often, business information that could also serve as evidence in a criminal or civil lawsuit is required to be made available in as few as 30 days. Many enterprises are still in the dark about this.
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A scarcity of cheap Blu-ray video players and the effects of a recession are expected to delay adoption of the high-definition Blu-ray DVD format in Europe, according to media research company Screen Digest. Screen Digest says supply problems early in 2008 led to a shortage of affordable Blu-ray players, and most of those available were being channeled to the more developed markets of the United States and Japan.
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Keeping the "e" in eWEEK, our beat reporters turned up gadgets, apps, phones, GPS devices and even a portable device with 1 terabyte of storage for less than $200, all with an eye toward informing a shopper whose day job involves terabytes, not megapixels.
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eWEEK Labs names the products that provide lots of practical bang for very few bucks.
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With the 2008 holiday shopping season here, consumers looking for that special gift are likely checking out the new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro that hit the market earlier this year. The two new Apple MacBooks remain high on the list of must-haves this holiday season. For those interested in PCs, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway and Toshiba all have new notebooks ready for the 2008 holiday season as well. While laptops remain popular, there are still bargains out there for a solid home desktop PC.
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For years, the Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group office used to collect paper applications for all the volunteer staff and simply kept all those unwieldy physical files in drawers and boxes. Three years ago, the office moved to a Microsoft Access database system, but it proved difficult for many people to use. So this year the venerable FileMaker Pro 9 came to the rescue.
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PC makers are struggling to boost sales in the face of an increasingly dire economic outlook. Most large business and institutional customers will be eligible for zero percent financing, the Dell said, along with some select smaller business. Dell will also offer deferred payment plans to some businesses.
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New 25GB and 50GB solid-state drives from data storage maker Samsung are designed specifically for high-performance server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and online financial transaction processing.
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What could be more practical for anybody with a personal computer than the gift of personal data storage? Capacities keep going up, as does the number of value-added and optional features. Prices keep coming down, much to the joy of buyers and the chagrin of storage executives.
Take full advantage while prices are down; since most things in business are cyclical, they undoubtedly will start heading back up at some point. Here are some relatively inexpensive storage hardware and software packages for consumers and small businesses.
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Solid-state drives, or SSDs, don’t have any moving parts, and they’re being considered a faster, more efficient alternative to traditional hard drives. Recent tests from Samsung and other independent labs show that SSDs read and write data faster than hard drives; they consume less power, resulting in longer battery life; and they perform more reliably than hard drives in the long term, with a significantly higher mean time between failures.
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Shares of HP (Hewlett-Packard) fell more than 7 percent on Tuesday on concerns about weak sales of printer ink and personal computers, fed in part by pessimistic quarterly earnings from one of the company's distributors. HP, a Dow Jones industrial average .DJI component, was down far more than the index which dropped 0.4 percent. In its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings release on Monday, HP reported a 9 percent increase for printer supplies year-over-year, and an 8 percent drop in printer hardware shipments. HP said its market share would be sustained because slower printer sales have affected the entire industry, and that sales of ink and printer supplies would remain brisk.
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Analysis: Enterprises are using virtualization technology from Microsoft, VMware and Citrix for servers, desktops, applications and storage. While virtualization saves money, it creates management headaches. Vendors ranging from BMC, CA, HP and IBM are building virtualization management tools, but more cross-platform capabilities are needed.
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With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft adds support for VMware ESX Infrastructure virtualization technology. The move by Microsoft with its Hyper-V virtualization technology is a break from its past, where Microsoft usually let third parties manage non-Microsoft software. Now Microsoft can manage VMware virtualization technology.
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VKernel's Capacity Analyzer 2.0 can use VMware VirtualCenter statistics to offer clarity in virtualization deployments. However, the virtualization tool is not a cross-platform product; it doesn't address Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology. But in VMware environments, the virtualization tool will help IT administrators get the most out of their ESX installations.
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Intel and Micron are teaming up to take on Samsung and Toshiba in the battle for NAND flash memory, used for multimedia storage on consumer products such as iPods and digital cameras. But when falling consumer confidence is taking its toll on the flash memory market, is this the right time for Intel and Micron to invest?
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With the ProLiant DL185 G5, Hewlett-Packard introduces a major update to the management software that improves usability over earlier versions of HP Storage Server Management Console. The ProLiant DL185 G5 can be configured as either an NAS or iSCSI SAN device.
The Maxtor Central Axis NAS device from Seagate shows promise, particularly for small businesses. However, there are issues with the storage management and backup software of the Seagate product that need to be negotiated.
Jungle Disk gives the Amazon S3 storage service a solid front end for the online storage and backup needs of enterprises. The product works with systems running Windows, Linux and OS X.
Review: Toshiba's USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive puts as much as 200GB of data in a pocket-sized form factor, providing a good backup and storage solution for SMBs.
Review: It's possible to plug the FreeAgent Go into any Windows system and have immediate access to the files and applications stored within the device without installing or leaving anything on the host system.
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