“Marathon, which made a splash at the fall 2007 VMworld show with a preview of its everRun VM product for high availability and disaster recovery, will formally announce the product today; it’s available in beta form and will ship in April, the company says. The product can be added to the XenServer Enterprise Edition license for an extra $2,000, with no limits on the number of VMs running inside that server, Marathon says.”
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Toshiba Loses its Shirt With $1 Billion Bust From Failure of HD DVD Format
Filed under Blu-Ray, HD-DVD
“Toshiba is expected to post a $1 billion loss this year from its high-def division, thanks to the demise of the HD DVD format. But can the electronics company rebound by joining forces with Blu-ray?”
Canon 10-megapixel PowerShot Digital ELPHs
Filed under Digital Camera
Canon U.S.A.’s newest additions to the PowerShot line-up: SD890 IS, SD790 IS and SD770 IS Digital ELPH with integrated Canon technologies such as Motion Detection Technology, Optical Image Stabilization, Genuine Canon Face Detection Technology, and Canon’s proprietary DIGIC III imaging processor, along with the inherent style of the ELPH line.
Chipmakers See Green In Blu-ray Win
Filed under Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DVD
The road to one-standard of high definition DVD. “Now that Sony’s Blu-ray Disc has won the battle vs. Toshiba’s HDDVD to be the standard for high-definition DVD players, some DVD chipmakers stand to benefit — at least for a short time.
The downloading of high-def movies and TV shows could in the not-too-distant future make DVD players obsolete. DVD player sales, in fact, already have started to decline as downloading gets easier and often cheaper.”
Knowing Your Storage Media
Filed under General Data Recovery
How much do you know about your storage media, be it desktop hard drive, laptop hardrive, your external USB harddisk? What are the most common failures for these media? When will they crash? Why do they crash?