Disk storage bounces back

Research company, IDC indicates the market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown, reports PC World.

Factory revenue in the worldwide disk storage system market grew 20.7% in the second quarter from a year earlier, IDC reports. The revenue grew to almost $6.8 billion from $5.6 billion from the same quarter in 2009.

IDC analyst Liz Conner believes a continuing explosion in the amount of data enterprises have to store will bring disk storage revenue back to pre-recession levels by 2011 or 2012.

USB flash drives are known for being portable, but the device that LaCie has showcased has such a small physical size that it is either one of or the very smallest USB flash drive in existence, measuring only 20mm and weighing just 10 grams, states Softpedia.

Until some time ago, creating a worthwhile, small flash drive was tricky because flash chips themselves were not small and capacious enough for a viable amount of storage to be implementable, a report says.

However, with NAND reaching smaller processes, it is quite possible to create tiny drives that have more storage space that even older-generation hard disk drives.

Sony released a cloud-based music system for its Web-connected devices including the PlayStation 3, says The Wrap.

“Music Unlimited by Qriocity," available by year-end, will grant its users access to millions of songs stored remotely and that can be accessed across multiple devices.

"Services powered by Qriocity will revolutionise the way that users play, listen, watch, share, communicate, learn, discover and create their digital entertainment content," says Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony's networked products and services group.