Tag: storage

A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.

A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.

Too often I see Geraniums treated as annuals. Allowed to die in the fall and then mulched or thrown in the trash. This is not necessary, a few simple steps and your geraniums can last for years.

Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8 hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Samsung Spinpoint N3U hard drive which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot print, less power consumption and optimized performance, which is ideal for portable external storage devices.
The Samsung Spinpoint N3U stores up to 125 Gigabytes per platter for a total 250GB data storage capacity.
Initial shipments of the Samsung hard disk drives to OEMs are scheduled from mid-July with a street price of $199.00.

LONDON (Reuters) - "Five-dimensional" discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current DVDs could be on the market within 10 years, researchers reported on Wednesday.

A team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said that by harnessing nanoparticles and a "polarization" dimension to existing technology, storage can be massively boosted without changing the size of a current disc.

New blades, new storage, new switches, new services, all built around virtualization. Dell is not playing games with this trend.

Dell sure has embraced EqualLogic, the storage vendor provider it acquired in January, with gusto.

The company has announced new offerings under the EqualLogic brand as well as new blade systems built with storage in mind, rather than as an add-on service. Overall, the product mix represents a strategy shift for Dell.

The PowerEdge M805 and M905 are full-height, two-socket and four-socket blades, respectively, both running AMD Dual Core or Quad Core Opteron processors. The M805 supports up to 128GB of memory while the M905 supports 192GB of memory.

Both are available with a choice of Citrix XenServer, VMware, and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) claims the M905 can run up to 66 virtual machines per blade. The new blades are available now, starting at $4,999 for the M905 and $1,699 for the M805.