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The ioSafe Solo(TM), the world's first high capacity, fireproof, waterproof, external hard drive, to be distributed by Ingram Micro. Priced at $149, the ioSafe Solo provides up to 1.5 terabytes of physically secure storage for irreplaceable personal and business data. AUBURN, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ioSafe (http://www.iosafe.com), the leader in disaster proof data storage, has announced Ingram Micro Inc. is now a major distributor of the ioSafe Solo, its fireproof and waterproof...
U.S. scientists have found a way to build a flexible memory component that might lead to electronic memory chips that can bend and twist. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers led by Nadine Gergel-Hackett said the device is promising, not only because of its potential applications in medicine and other fields, but because it also appears to possess the characteristics of a memristor -- a component theorized in 1971 as a fourth fundamental circuit element along with the...
When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not dense but can last thousands of years, whereas today's silicon memory chips can hold their information for only a few decades. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have smashed this...
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, Ocean Alliance and Girl Scouts of the USA Receive Prestigious Honors for Visionary Implementations of Information Technology SAN DIEGO, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today announced that three esteemed customers, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, Ocean Alliance and Girl Scouts of the USA, have been bestowed with Laureate awards by IDG's Computerworld Honors Program. This year's honorees will be...
Company Expanding to Meet Growing Global Demand for its Nanopatterning Solutions AUSTIN, Texas, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Molecular Imprints, Inc., the market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, today announced an expansion plan that includes increasing its workforce with the addition of 30-50 employment opportunities during 2009 and expanding the scale of its facilities by more than a third. The new job opportunities will be concentrated in a number of...
WD Maintains Substrate and Media Manufacturing and Development Operations in Penang and Johor, Malaysia, and San Jose, California LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it has agreed to sell the assets of its media substrate manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia, to a subsidiary of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard drive manufacturing unit of Hitachi, Ltd. The employees of WD at the facility will become...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerFile(R) Inc., the leader in long-term storage appliances for fixed digital content and assets, today announced its new enterprise-class Hybrid Storage Appliance(TM), that delivers the performance of disk, the economy of tape, and superior reliability and data integrity in a purpose-built platform optimized for long-term storage of fixed content. The PowerFile HSA leverages an innovative, distributed-performance architecture with...
General Electric unveiled on Monday a micro-holographic disc that can store 500 GB of data, the equivalent of 100 DVDs.Although the technology is still in its early stages, the company is targeting the archive industry with the new disc, which is roughly the same size as a conventional DVD. But it also believes the disc will ultimately have applications in the consumer marketplace and for home players.Micro-holographic discs can store more data than Blu-ray or DVDs because they store...
Tough new mobile storage unit protects essential electronic devices against crash, static zaps and worry MONTCLAIR, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital media and IT professionals that travel with delicate hard drives can now download anxiety to a trusted name in security. CaseCruzer -- that dedicated foe of thieves, turbulence and the invisible torment of static electricity, announces a new carrying case dedicated to protecting essential electronic devices. Traveling with a fleet of...
PowerNAP(TM) Capability Powers Down ISE Units to Low-Power Mode and Wakes Them Up in Under One Minute, Provides Significant Energy Reduction for Intermittent Storage Operations ORLANDO, Fla., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation today introduced the new PowerNAP(TM) feature for its Emprise(TM) 5000 storage system at the spring Storage Networking World conference (booth #300). PowerNAP enables organizations to realize significant power and cooling cost savings by placing Emprise 5000...
