GLG News by PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers

*Western Digital introduced a 500 GB DVR expander product to add storage capacity to a digital video recorder with an external storage device  * Western digital plans to offer a 1 TB version of this product this year  * WD joins Seagate/Maxtor and others with external storage products to expand...

WAN optimization may not be considered a luxury when customers have no choice but to add it to their infrastructure when bandwidth options are limited and response times have eroded.  Adding more bandwidth or server power does not solve all latency and performance issues, and optimization...

1.  Solid State drives are the future (not too distant) 2.  Reports of problems grab headlines, but rarely stop a trend

1. The ability to run Windows and macintosh software on the Macbooks creates less of a barrier for Macintosh in corporate america. 2. The iPhone as a corporate solution enhances Apple's position

1. Saving money in areas where basic computing is sufficient will increase in the coming years. 2. Linux is in the server room making support a possibility.

1.  Microsoft is planning another operating system in a few years, so why upgrade. 2.  Microsoft seems to have lost the operating system was on mobile devices to Apple

*  A start-up company, Pliant Technology announced a solid state flash drive for enterprise  applications  *  Pliant joins companies such as STEC in bringing flash memory to enterprise applications that require high throughput such as transaction processing  *  In...

* Sandisk announced that they will start shipping 3-bit per storage cell NAND flash memory in March or April, 2008 * Currently the densest flash memory is 2-bit per cell multilevel cells (MLC) * The technology was co-invented with long-time Sandisk partner, Toshiba * The technology will be...

With the demise of Toshiba's HD-DVD format, game makers will be looking for the consumer friendly format that supports vast amounts of data for today's games.

* Encryption is used by many people and organizations to hide their information from unauthorized access  * Researchers at Princeton University were able to demonstrate a technique for finding the encryption key for software-based encryption programs  * With the encryption key these researchers...