OQO cuts UMPC prices, adds solid-state drive option
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UMPC maker OQO will next week launch an updated version of its Model 2 handheld in Europe, upping the Windows Vista device's processor and storage specs, and - if OQO does what it's just done in the US - a reduced price.â¦
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Drobo is a storage appliance that retails for $499 without drives, employs its own disk and storage virtualization algorithms to give users many of the data redundancy benefits of RAID without RAID's complexity.
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Analysis: Low flash memory prices could mean lower cost solid-state devices and bigger storage in gadgets.
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You can't run out and buy it yet, but OQO is demonstrating what it said is the first ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) to support Sprint's Xohm Mobile WiMAX wireless data system.
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Storage tiers tend to align neatly with the product offerings of an incumbent vendor with the assumption of a cheaper total cost of ownership will result. But when complexity is factored into a TCO model, the cost savings rational may be significantly reduced if not eliminated.
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80GB external hard drive is on offer at a 50% reduction.
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Company's ND-3500A drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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Standard version of the software, now slated for January, will sell for $399, while a Home and Student version will cost $149.
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The Barracuda 7200.11 will sell for $399. Rival Hitachi released its version of the drive for the same price in April.
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The 64GB solid state drives will be available in Dell and Alienware laptops soon.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications. The drive is the latest in a growing line of products from Samsung and competitors that make use of flash memory chips instead of magnetic disc recording technology. Compared to today's hard-disk drives, SSDs are lighter, use less power and can read and write data faster. They are also more expensive but the price difference has been narrowing as flash chips have become cheaper so SSDs are now starting to appear in some laptops. The new Samsung drive has a capacity of 64G bytes and is the same size as a conventional 1.8-inch hard-disk drive. It's designed to be used in sub-notebook class computers, ultra-mobile PCs and other devices like portable media players. Samsung said it is seeing demand increase for such products, particularly from companies making ultra portable PCs. At the Computex show in Taipei earlier this month two major contract PC makers, First International Computer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc., both showed prototype ultra portables and several other companies have already put such machines on sale. Samsung is one of the world's largest manufacturers of flash memory chips so the company has a lot to gain from SSDs becoming more popular. It estimated that the market for SSDs will increase 270 percent between now and 2010 to become the largest growth segment in the NAND flash memory market. The price of the drive, which will be sold to PC makers and not end-users, was not disclosed. Â
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Toshiba announced plans to include an HD DVD-enabled DVD player in its laptops starting in December next year. The new drives will be limited to the high-end &quot;Qosmio&quot; brand, and will sell for around 200,000-300,000 yen (US$1,845-$2,770).
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Upgrading to Microsoft Corp's new Windows Vista Business operating system from Windows XP will push PC hardware component costs up by 20% or roughly $100, according to new research by iSuppli Corp.  The average desktop running XP contains components that cost an OEM a little more than $500.
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Leveraging its October 2007 purchase of Berkeley Data Systems [BDS], EMC announced this week that it will offer an enterprise backup and recovery solution, MozyEnterprise, over a hosted SaaS platform for desktops, laptops, and remote servers.The service will become part of EMC's Fortress hosted services and will offer RSA-level security, a capability that was not available when the product was owned by BDS and marketed as Mozy Professional. The solution includes integrated key management, authentication and authorization security. Over time, EMC will offer other SaaS solutions, according to officials.The EMC solution will compete directly with Iron Mountain's DataDefense backup and recovery SaaS service. However, EMC lacks a key capability that Iron Mountain offers, according to Adam Couture, a principal analyst with Gartner. "DataDefense encrypts everything on the laptop," said Couture. "MozyEnterprise does not have this capability."An EMC spokesperson confirmed this, saying that data is encrypted once it leaves the laptop or desktop and is stored by EMC.The company will either have to develop the encryption capability on its own or partner with another company in order to be competitive, but the fact that GE used Mozy Professional before the acquisition and is apparently staying with the product from EMC gives EMC enterprise credibility, he added.Pricing for a desktop/laptop is $5.25 per month per desktop/laptop plus $0.70 per gigabyte protected. Windows server pricing is $9.25 per month per supported Windows server plus $2.35 per month per gigabyte protected.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard plans to offer solid-state drives (SSDs) as an option in all professional series laptop PCs starting from next month because the drives operate faster, conserve battery life, and are more durable than hard disk drives.
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Oracle has removed some restrictions on the licensing of its low-end Standard Edition databases for multicore servers, making the cost of software substantially cheaper.
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Seagate announced today the availability of a 400 gigabyte (GB) Barracuda 7200.8 model for high-end PC&#39;s and entry-level servers.