Data Recovery News

By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
Thursday, August 09 2007 04:05 PM

On one hand, NAND flash–the kind of flash found inside digital cameras and MP3 players–is crushing the competition, Eli Harari, CEO of SanDisk, said on Wednesday at the Flash Memory Summit.

NAND has made 1-inch hard drives obsolete. Then it is on to 1.8-inch hard drives and possibly larger 2.5-inch notebook hard drives, Harari said.

Read more about this at Is flash memory facing a crisis?

Data is the backbone of every organization. Whatever business you are in, enormous amounts of data are needed every day to keep it running. If you also consider that data volumes are increasing by 80 percent a year, it is clear that it must be protected against a variety of threats.

Read about disk-assisted data protection at Data protection

August 8, 2007 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced it is expanding its line of Secure Digital™ High-Capacity (SDHC) memory cards with the introduction of a 4GB miniSDHC card, available in Class 2, 4 and 6 speed ratings. The higher capacity and faster speeds offered by Kingston® miniSDHC cards make them ideal for supporting new, smaller-profile multifunction phones and digital devices able to take advantage of the advanced expansion memory platform.

Read more about this at Kingston adds miniSDHC to SDHC Flash family

Comment: Never thought this could happen! Cool…

A genetically engineered microbial protein could mean better data storage.

By Amitabh Avasthi

By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce rewritable holographic memory. Holographic memory stores data in three dimensions instead of two and could make data retrieval hundreds of times faster. The first holographic-memory systems have recently come to market, but they do not yet feature discs rewritable in real time.

Learn more about this at Rewritable Holographic Memory

MUNICH, Germany-July 18, 2007-Renowned fine art photographer Andreas Gursky relies on technology from hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) to store his images. Gursky takes hundreds of exposures to piece together a single image, eliminating distracting details and adding parts to form a new world; a world that needs vast amounts of digital storage to exist.

Read more at Seagate Technology — Andreas Gursky

HP today announced its continued leadership in several key segments of the server and storage market in Asia Pacific (inc. Japan) in first calendar quarter 2007. According to IDC, HP maintained the No.1 position in x86 server shipments in CYQ1, 2007 for the 20th consecutive quarter…

Read more at HP again No. 1

Looking for BIGGER storage?

The good: Four connection options: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800, and serial/RS-232; front-mounted LCD advises you of the status of the drive; supports several RAID arrays; supports a variety of file systems; drives are hot-swappable.

For the Bad and further info: LaCie Biggest FW800  

This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending where you are on the future history curve.

Learn more at Flash memory versus HDD

Sunnyvale, CA, July 2, 2007 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today launched its new travel-ready and world’s highest capacity 2.5” External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for the U.S. market.

Read more at Fujitsu - Highest capacity 2.5″ External HDD

Eric Lai
Computerworld

Updated: 09 Jul 2007

The official launch of 11g is set for next Wednesday, July 11, in a New York City ceremony overseen by Oracle president Charles Philips.

Publicly, Oracle has for the most part avoided specifics, saying that 11g will offer improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, and manageability.

Tidbits it has revealed include free migration and management tools that will let administrators oversee non-Oracle databases at the same time they manage their Oracle ones. Oracle has also said that 11g will have new compression technology that could potentially reduce customers’ storage demands by two-thirds, the ability to store unstructured data faster than traditional file systems, and better partitioning.

Read more at: Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers?