Blocks and Files Disruptive or enhancing innovation? Kodak’s descent into Chapter 11 hell is a tolling bell for all successful storage suppliers facing innovative technology from competitors. King Canute didn’t reinvent himself: can you?
Let’s look at the tape market. Tape devices were backup devices; they were the target storage devices for data coming from backup software. Tape device vendors pretty much defined themselves as backup software storage devices and were hardware-centric.
Along comes disk to disk backup, cutting lengthening backup windows to more acceptable periods, and along came deduplication, cutting the cost/GB of storing backup data on disk, and wham!
Brookstone just unveiled its new iConvert Scanner that will convert your iPad or iPad 2 Tablet into a portable scanner ready to scan your documents while you are on the road. The iConvert Scanner comes with the ability to scan documents in high resolution 300dpi for clear JPEG images. 
Well out in front with almost half the votes, ASUS was voted as the maker of the best desktop motherboards in 2011 by TweakTown readers. In second place GIGABYTE got 20% of the votes while ASRock came in third with 14% of the votes. Read more…