New Air Breathed Into Storage? Or Just More Vapour?
New Air Breathed Into Storage? Or Just More Vapour?
August 24th, 2006: An American company is claiming that its new compression method can put 1.28Gb of data onto a floppy disk while encrypting that data against terrorist attacks.
US-based Pegasus Web Services Inc, has received a Patent (Patent Number 7,096,360) from the Patent and Trademark Office for its "Frequency-time based data compression method". The patent has been pending since September 2002. The company claims that the method enables high volume transport of digital data over serial transports. The technology achieves this by, "effectively sending parallel data in each serial transfer cycle".
It also has claims for High Volume Digital Data Storage and a Multi-Dimensional Encryption/Decryption algorithm providing unsurpassed data security.
The company is not holding back on its claims for "Frequency-time based data compression method" - which it is branding as 'HyperDrive Patented Digital Data Compression Method', claiming that this compression technique will, "catapult web based and networking technologies into a world where data throughput over the wire is virtually unlimited". The phrase, 'virtually unlimited' is, of course, the signal for caution as are all marketing oxymorons.
Pegasus claims that the method, "can be applied to data storage as well." The company illustrates this with two pieces of technology that are seeing their final days. Case one is an imaginary floppy disk, "that can store 1.28 GigaBytes of data". Case two features a 32-bit computer that can "effectively" be boosted to, "a 32,000-bit computer."
Aside from just compressing your data, HyperDrive PDDCM also features an complex embedded encryption algorithm preventing hacker or terrorist data attacks.
"This invention is expected to significantly change the way we use computers in the future. We will no longer be constrained by the box; i.e. the number of slots in the computer backplane). The network becomes the computer backplane. The total computing power available is the sum of the parts of all computers on the network." said Pegasus vice president, Jeff Fries.