Rage over Xbox storage issue

At the QuakeCon 2008 keynote last week in Dallas, John Carmack, game designer and co-founder of id software, shared information on their upcoming first person shooter titled Rage, says Tech Tree.

Carmack commented on a storage problem related to Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform. He believes that compressing Rage textures such that the game data fits on to two Xbox 360 DVDs would result in loss of visual quality.

He added that including a third disc would shoot up the royalties that id would need to pay Microsoft.

In a decision sure to affect millions of cable television subscribers, a federal appeals court approved Cablevision Systems' roll-out of a remote-storage digital video recorder system, says SFGate.

In overturning a lower-court ruling that had blocked the service, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the judge wrongly concluded that Cablevision, rather than its customers, would be making copies of programmes, thereby violating copyright laws.

The next-generation technology would let any cable subscriber with a digital cable box store TV shows on computer servers rather than on a hard drive in their home.

Data Domain, a provider of deduplication storage systems, has partnered with archiving and file virtualisation providers, reports CNN Money.

Data Domain systems can now be used with Mimosa Nearpoint, AXS-One Compliance Platform, F5 Networks Acopia ARX File Virtualisation devices, Brocade File Management Engine, DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite, ARKIVIO auto-stor and Kazeon Information Server.

The new partnerships underscore the inherent flexibility of Data Domain deduplication storage systems when applied as a storage tier for nearline file storage, backup, and disaster recovery.