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- Social networking and homegrown content have
- Adaptec To Ship New Unified NAS/SAN Appliances
- IBM releases mainframe virtual tape offering
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Social networking and homegrown content have
Hollywood Reporter – Sep 26, 2006
‘”Carey adds that, from a business perspective, SPHE would be happy to allow consumers to buy a piece of content once and play it on multiple devices. “The upper limit on that number is at least 10, and perhaps even greater,” he says. Getting content from one device to another still isn’t a cinch; moving a few TV shows from a Microsoft Media Center PC to a portable Creative Vision player can take nearly an hour, for example. Often, additional software from a third party must be installed to synchronize and organize content on multiple devices. “Consumers have a higher expectation around usability when you’re talking about entertainment technology than they do with computing,” says Brodie Keast, senior vp and general manager for consumer electronics at Seagate, a Silicon Valley-based data-storage company. “There’s unnecessary complexity in the eyes of the consumer, and that’s a real barrier to adoption. Keast, a former TiVo executive, adds that Apple’s success stems in part from the fact that the company has made consuming digital music and video hassle-free — even if the content won’t play on technology from other companies… Getting content from one device to another still isn’t a cinch; moving a few TV shows from a Microsoft Media Center PC to a portable Creative Vision player can take nearly an hour, for example. Often, additional software from a third party must be installed to synchronize and organize content on multiple devices. “Consumers have a higher expectation around usability when you’re talking about entertainment technology than they do with computing,” says Brodie Keast, senior vp and general manager for consumer electronics at Seagate, a Silicon Valley-based data-storage company. “There’s unnecessary complexity in the eyes of the consumer, and that’s a real barrier to adoption. Keast, a former TiVo executive, adds that Apple’s success stems in part from the fact that the company has made consuming digital music and video hassle-free — even if the content won’t play on technology from other companies. Even when companies agree on the goal of interoperability and work together for years to achieve it — as did movie studios and technology vendors when crafting the Digital Cinema Initiatives — the result isn’t always perfect. Although the DCI, a joint venture established by the major studios in 2002, released its guidelines for d-cinema equipment last year, “everybody’s kind of doing their own thing,” says Curt Behlmer, senior vp digital cinema operations at Technicolor.

Adaptec To Ship New Unified NAS/SAN Appliances
InformationWeek – Sep 26, 2006
Jerry Pape, a principle at Excalibur, a Big Sky, Mont. -based solution provider, said he has been testing the Snap Server 210 for some time and is impressed with what he sees coming from Adaptec. “I see a lot of vendors taking less-complex products and moving them into more complex storage environments,” Pape said. “It’s not always easy to do. Snap takes a proven, top-level technology and scales it down without sacrificing anything. Dollar for dollar, it’s the best in the market. From what Pape has seen, the 210 is on par with the rest of Adaptec’s Snap line.

IBM releases mainframe virtual tape offering
CTR – Sep 26, 2006
2 GB, assuming 3:1 compression, to 12 GB, assuming 3:1 compression and using the 400 to 4000 MB volume sizes, the company said. IBM introduced recently its tape drive with drive-based encryption capabilities. The IBM System Storage TS1120 is designed to provide protection of data in the event that it is lost or stolen, rendering it unreadable to anyone who finds it. , the company said. This solution joins IBM’s portfolio of Grid storage solutions that are designed to address large amounts of data and the need for businesses to have a means to effectively and reliably access that data across the grid, according to IBM. The TS7700 Virtualization Engine will be available from later this month with a starting list price of US$ 493,080, IBM said.

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