Google targets netbooks

Google says netbooks and the cloud are a match made in heaven, reports Investors.com.

The search king aims to make its Chrome operating system a rival to Microsoft's Windows by taking cloud computing mainstream, with its next step possibly boosting cloud storage.

Google says the first devices to get its Chrome OS will be netbooks, low-priced, mini laptop computers usually connected to the Internet via high-speed wireless links.

Cloud storage is priced like a utility; over and over again, virtually all vendors repeat the same mantra: "Customers pay only for what they use", writes Computerworld.

Pricing for public cloud storage ranges between 12c and 25c per GB per month, yet the real savings in cloud storage may have more to do with all of the ancillary costs associated with companies storing their own data.

"Lots of data centres are already starting to fold under the amount of data under management," notes Terri McClure, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

HP has released a storage architecture for HP ProLiant server environments, promising speed, efficiency and productivity improvements through the use of 6Gbps serial-attached SCSI (SAS), states V3.

The computing giant said its new SAS technology would deliver improved throughput and performance compared with typical SAS infrastructures that run at 3Gbps, and make systems much better tuned for high input and output applications, including video streaming, server virtualisation and server backups.

The firm claims to be the first to offer a complete range of 6Gbps SAS infrastructure solutions, and on paper the range does seem comprehensive.