Network Storage

Apple has provided a welcome solution for Cisco's litigation archive through the use of Apple's new Xsan file system and Xserve RAID storage subsystem to archive the company's global email communications for compliance requirements.

Disk storage vendor Seagate has made available the latest in its range of notebook hard drives – the Momentus 5400.2 hard drive – to whitebook builders in Australia. The drive has a capacity of up to 100GB and areal density of 50GB per disk.

USB Flash drives will soon be used for more than storage purposes following plans to transform it into a product that can carry, store and launch applications and data on any PC anywhere.

Cisco is planning to sell EMC's storage products with its File Engine Series to make it easier for companies to completely manage, store and protect information held at remote offices and keeps this data linked to a central data centre.

The increasingly regulated environment around information storage and retrieval is helping to bring about a boom in email archiving applications, with the market revenue soaring to over US$180 million (AU$237 million) worldwide in 2004, up...

SanDisk has created a new flash memory card with built-in USB connectivity so that data, images, audio or video can be transferred seamlessly between computers, digital cameras and other electronic devices.

Following the recent growth in popularity and availability of disk drives for small devices, standards are now being created to ensure that this small drives can be used in many different handheld systems.

A new hard drive has been released by Hitachi that can hold up to half a terabyte of information, which will be especially useful for storing audio and digital video material.

In a move that will be welcomed by businesses and consumers alike, HP and Panasonic have agreed to support each other's new recordable DVD formats in their respective devices.

The Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne has incorporated handheld computers and a new wireless networking infrastructure to allow doctors, nurses and other caregivers to locate patient history reports, x-rays and pathology results at the bedside.

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