S.D. backups charged up
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SAN DIEGO -- Backup quarterbacks Doug Flutie and Philip Rivers each threw a touchdown pass and the San Diego Chargers warmed up for their first playoff game in nine seasons by beating the Kansas City Chiefs, 24-17, yesterday in what was little more than an exhibition. Having clinched the AFC West title two weeks earlier and the AFC's No. 4 ...
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Company's drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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Amazon&#39;s data storage service was down for several hours on Friday morning, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.As of around 9 a.m. on the West Coast of the U.S., the issue had been resolved, according to an Amazon employee posting on a user group forum. &quot;This morning&#39;s issue has been resolved, and the system is continuing to recover,&quot; wrote Kathrin, the Amazon employee, on the forum.She said that the company plans to post technical information about what exactly happened, but that the priority is to make sure the system is stable.Companies use Amazon&#39;s Simple Storage Service, known as S3, to store and quickly retrieve large amounts of data, often to run Web sites and services.A press spokesman said that one of three geographic locations for the service was unreachable for about two hours, but that it was operating at 99 percent of normal performance before 7 a.m. on the West Coast. &quot;We&#39;ve been communicating with our customers all morning via our support forums and will be providing additional information as soon as we have it,&quot; said Drew Herdener in a statement.Many customers appeared not to have gotten that communication. They complained on the forum about a lack of information from Amazon about the outage and when it would be fixed. One suggested that Amazon could have at least posted a message on the front page of the Web services site so that customers would be aware that the problem wasn&#39;t on their end.Others wrote about the problems that the outage was causing their businesses. &quot;It&#39;s becoming very embarrassing for us here,&quot; one wrote. &quot;We desperately need an update ... it&#39;s a huge hit on our reputation.&quot;Many of the users said that the service was down for around three hours.Gustavo, a user in Brazil, said that his company hosts more than 30,000 images from a large television station in Brazil. &quot;Now we are having several problems because of this S3 issue,&quot; he wrote. &quot;My company chose to work with Amazon because of its reliability.&quot;Late last year, Amazon introduced a new service level agreement for S3 that guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime each month. If the service slips below that level, the company promised to provide service credits to certain users.
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Western Digital's latest external drive tops out at 1 terabyte. Plus: Handy tool kit keeps road warriors connected. In Gear Factor.
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New service offers 2GB of storage and a copy of Outlook 2003.
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New 1.8-inch hard drives may boost battery life in portable devices.
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An increasing number of firms are offering web storage for people with digital photo collections.
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(Source: SEPATON) ESG Lab reviews SEPATON's enterprise-class virtual tape library systems to validate backup/restore performance of over 17TB per hour, dramatically accelerating data protection.  In addition, SEPATON's DeltaStor de-duplication software exceeded company claims of 50:1 de-dupe ratios to help companies mitigate growing disk storage costs. Uncover more "outstanding" results in the full report.
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roundup Plus: Think local, act Google...SanDisk to supply Samsung with miniSD...Hitachi unleashes 100GB notebook drives.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ and MicrosoftÂ rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors. The system pairs Dell's PowerVault NX1950, a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) back-end storage array that can use up to 45 drives, with Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, a file server and package of management tools. The companies said the paired products are aimed at the midrange and include advanced management tools. Together, the products eliminate the need for separate licenses for additional features such as snapshots, replication and resource management. The system starts at $17,000 with a configuration for 4.5TB of storage at $24,000. It will work with Windows, Unix, Linux, and Macintosh systems. Dell also announced a new member to its PowerVault line, the MD3000, aimed for high-performance tasks such as serving up video or applications with high transactional performance needs, such as databases and e-mail. The company said the product is the first external RAID (redundant array of independent disks) SAS array from a Tier 1 vendor. The MD3000 is capable of 1,400MBps of throughput and approximately 90,000 input/output operations per second, Dell said. Pricing for the MD3000 starts at $6,499. Â
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The Sansa Clip and Sansa View, two of SanDisk's top selling products, received storage increasement bumps today.
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A recent survey of Fortune 1000 companies shows that if you're not using disk-to-disk systems to cut your backup window, you're behind the times. Here's why the technology is so hot.
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New service plan lets customers keep old drives after replacement to protect data.
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Analysts solid state drives, online storage gaining steam to deal with performance, energy and compliance issues.
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Vendors are discussing how to pay for the recall of more than 200,000 batteries.
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SanDiskâs new Cruzer Titanium Plus USB flash drive will backup digital files to a Web service offered by a start-up company called BeInSync.
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750GB DVR unit too Seagate will donate ten per cent of the purchase price of a limited edition pink version of its Pocket Hard Drive external disk to US breast cancer charity the Komen Foundation, the storage company said today. It also said it has begun shipping a 750GB HDD for DVRs.â¦