Enterprise disk storage revenue fell 18.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year as a willingness to pay to store information has fallen, a global study by IDC Research has found However government storage spend is still growing, claims tech giant IBM. According to Liz Conner, an analyst at IDC, growth in demand for storage capacity fell to 14.8 per cent this quarter, the lowest since 2002. Although enterprises need more storage, they are not willing to pay for it, she said.

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Eye-Fi Inc., the company that brought wireless SD memory cards to thew world has updated their hardware with the Eye-Fi Pro, targeting professionals and photo enthusiasts who love the convenience of uploading images straight from their camera to their computer and the Web automatically with each shot. Available today, the Eye-Fi Pro includes RAW image support and peer-to-peer connectivity for a direct connection between the camera and a computer, no router or Internet connection required (also known as ad hoc).

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OCZ is known for churning out new SSD series at pretty good rate. The latest to join OCZ's solid state drive family is the Agility series with 120GB storage capacity. According to OCZ, the Agility series delivers the performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The drive comes in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB storage capacities, and offers up to 230 MB/s read, and 135 MB/s write.

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Just as OCZ announced a standard SSD for regular use, it announced a high performance solid state drive for use in enterprise segment. The OCZ Colossus is a 3.5” SSD boasting massive 1TB storage. The drive is designed for use in high-end desktops and would be great for enthusiasts who require faster data transfer rate and large capacity. The drive makes use of RAID 0 structure and comes in 500GB and 1TB storage capacity. It offers up to 265MB/s read speeds. No word on pricing.

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We’ve seen the Freeloader a couple of years ago, but this time round there is a bigger, better model - heck, improvement should come along after two years, right? The Freeloader Pro has returned to offer you portable power for your plethora of gadgets and gizmos, ensuring the frustration of not having enough juice to finish up that phone call will never happen again. All you need to do is to plug in your device’s battery into the Caddy and wait for the sun to do its job, thanks to the two solar panels that are revealed when the Freeloader Pro opens up fully.

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Advanced Micro Devices today came out with a new graphics processing unit designed for embedded segment. The newest ATI Radeon series GPU is a powerful chip, tripling the performance of previous generation embedded chips. AMD reports that the chip will be very useful for a variety of markets such Arcade system, digital signage, casino, etc. where realistic 3D graphics are very much necessary to garner consumer attention.

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Compellent, which provides enterprise-class network storage solutions, says it is "aggressively growing" its channel-only sales model across Europe to meet continued demand for its Storage Center product. It has recruited 12 channel partners in Ireland and the UK & Ireland, including Eclipse, Origina, and VirtualizeIT.. Compellent has named Chrissie Tarbitt as a channel development manager for Europe. Her role includes identifying and recruiting channel partners across Europe.

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Then I discovered a much better use for the Imeem app: storage in the cloud. If you create an Imeem account on the Web site, you can upload up to 100 songs to Imeem for free. (A VIP Subscription service is available as well--$29.99 per year gives you 1,000 uploads, while $99.99 a year gives you 20,000.) My 8GB iPhone gives me enough space for some reasonably interesting playlists, but it's far from enough to store my entire music library, which runs at more than 20GB.

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Since Japan was really affected due to the recession, companies are trying to make ways to save the country from sinking. That’s only a fragment of imagination but nonetheless, Sanyo Japan has announced a new high-end projector, the LP-WXU700 [JP], which is claimed to be the world’s first WiFi-enabled projector supporting the IEEE802.11n standard and thus the fastest. Sanyo says users can conveniently stream video from their PCs through the projector and it also supports the Windows Vista Network Projector standard.

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JVC latest projectors—one at 8K (8,192x4,320pixels) and the other at 4K (3,840x2,160pixels)—come with 10,000 lumens of brightness and produce a 5500:1 contrast ratio.
JVC has also created a prototype of their new 4K handheld camcorders, which shoot in 4240p and was made to be more of a broadcasting camera. Although release dates and prices are yet to be announced, they are rumored to cost under $200k, which is not that surprising considering that this cutting-edge technology is aimed more at professionals.

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Disk storage is already one of the data center's biggest expenses, the cost of finished arrays keeps rising, and IDC predicts that companies' storage infrastructures will grow 300% by the end of the decade. Amid this backdrop, there's growing concern that businesses will drown in the expense of storing data.
Enter cloud storage--network-accessible storage infrastructure that evangelists promise will prevent the apocalyptic scenario envisioned above by IDC in its "Exploding Data Universe" report (sponsored by EMC).

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As can be seen in the figure below the catch all “General Infrastructure Optimisation” is the leading initiative currently being undertaken by organisations as they respond to mounting business challenges and the global economic climate. Many initiatives highlighted in the barometer survey have the potential to impact storage environments, some directly but many others via indirect consequences.

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Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products. The RamSan-620, announced last week, fits up to 5TB of flash memory into a 2U chassis, half the physical size of Texas Memory's RamSan-500, which fits a maximum of 2TB. Texas Memory has also significantly increased the speed, with 250,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) for both read and write operations. That's significantly faster than the RamSan-500, which delivers 100,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write operations per second.

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Remember the OCZ Z-Drive 1TB SSD we told you about a month ago? Well, OCZ recently released the massive capacity drive for enterprise segment. The Z-Drive PCI-Express based SSD solution is designed for enthusiast who likes nothing but the best and don't mind paying premium price for it. The OCZ’s Z-Drive utilizes a combined 256MB of local cache and an onboard RAID controller, to provide a complete solution in a compact form factor.

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Remember the OCZ Z-Drive 1TB SSD we told you about a month ago? Well, OCZ recently released the massive capacity drive for enterprise segment. The Z-Drive PCI-Express based SSD solution is designed for enthusiast who likes nothing but the best and don't mind paying premium price for it.

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