Recently Kingston announced their latest product USB flash drives with 128 GB, became the first similar products in the world. 128GB flash is join with the DataTraveler 200 series of drives before have only the capacity of each 32GB and 64GB. Kingston DataTraveler 200 akan sell USB drives with the price range $ 120 for 32GB, $ 213 for the 64GB Kingston, and $ 546 for 128GB Kingston flash disk. Kingston flash for the price is almost the same as the price for a netbook standard.
Kingston DT200 USB flash drives equipped with a 128GB this feature Traveler Password, a password protection to protect important data in it. Kingston flash disk features a slide-in to protect the USB connector. All USB flash drive by Kingston DT200, capacity 32GB, 64GB and 128GB have a certificate of Windows Vista and the Windows ReadyBoost feature, which is in the Windows Vista and Windows 7 to use the flash as a disk cache system to improve performance. However, Password Traveler may will not work well when the features of Windows ReadyBoost use.
Kingston DT200 offers 128GB USB flash drives with 5 year warranty and free tech support. However, for a price not yet have official confirmation from Kingston.
General Electric (GE) successfully make major breakthrough in digital storage technology. Companies that make disk can accommodate 100 standard DVDs.
Innovation is a new level of success in the laboratory. The next step is to create this disk can be useful in mass production with affordable prices.
Storage experts, analysts and industry discovery rate GE is a big leap berpotesi commercial. “That could be a future generation of storage media,” said Richard Doherty, analyst at technology research firm Envisioneering.
Besides structured data like in database, company also often ‘fought to’ managed ‘messy’ data unstructured data like e-mail, video, picture or another document format. This ‘messy’ data will it seems make the proceeding company inefficient.
The IDC research agency mentioned, was needed at least around 9-10 hours in a week to look for information. Definitely time that for quite a long time this could cause the company slow in taking the decision.
Still according to IDC, in April 2006 the cost was from the ineffective search estimated reached US$ 5,251 per worker per year. For 1,000 workers, the cost was estimated reached US$ 5.25 million.
Moreover the existence of the “messy” data, was really difficult to be found when being needed although in the little number. The number of unstructured datas also made the company often must have big stroge infrastructure.
Hitachi Data System (HDS) offered the method to manage that unstructured data. HDS applied the integrated approach through the file and content services solution.
The solution consisted of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series as well as the newest version from the Hitachi Content Archive Platform. According to Edwin Lim, Country Manager of Hitachi Data Systems Indonesia, this solution was HDS efforts met he promiseed helped companies in Asia-Pacific to carry out efficiency and the simplification.
“We bring our experience that proved in keep and managed storage block environment and expand that strength to file service to decrease wild data appearance risk, all at once complete operational efficiency,” Edwin promises in press release.
