More than simple IT news!
NetApp has lost ground for the second quarter in succession, Dell is pretty flat and HP growing steadily. These are the headlines from IDC’s quarterly storage tracker for external disk storage.
The tracker looks at worldwide external dusk storage systems factory revenue and IDC ranks suppliers, giving them tied positions if there is a less than 1 per cent difference between their factory revenues.
Kingston is now shipping its Wi-Drive wireless storage device for the Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. This device uses a built-in Wi-Fi signal and is capable of streaming movies, music, and other content to your iOS device. The Wi-Drive comes in 16GB and 32GB capacities. The drive is compatible with the Apple iPad; iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4G (3G is limited to iOS 4.2.1 or higher); and iPod Touch Gen 3 and Gen 4.
Oracle has supercharged its 7000 unified storage line, effectively replacing two of the products and expanding the line’s performance and capacity dramatically upwards. Users will get more scalability and more performance from the new line.
The new products have been rebranded too, and are known as the ZFS Storage Appliance line with four models: 7120; 7320; 7420; and 7720. The previous line had three models: 7110 scaling to 4.2TB; 7310 scaling to 192TB with a 2-node cluster option; and 7410 scaling to 576TB and again having a 2-node cluster configuration. Both the 7310 and 7410 have up to 600GB of read flash buffering and could have optional write flash buffering too.
Those who are content with their 32GB iPhone 3GS, good – but there are still many out there with the much older 8GB iPhones from the first generation, and to increase the amount of storage space without buying a new handset? That is made possible with the USB-powered AirStash, where it can not only hook up to the iPhone wirelessly but with other handsets as well. No idea on how well the AirStash will work, but it does tickle the imagination as to how well such a device would be received. We’re looking at it to be more of a novelty than anything else.