Storage energy costs to level off

International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that costs to power and cool enterprise storage worldwide are likely to level off by 2014, reports CIOL.

The temporary plateau in storage power and cooling costs will be brought about by the migration to smaller, more energy efficient enterprise-class hard disk drives, greater utilisation of existing storage capacity; and adoption of solid state drives.

"There is no doubt that the economic straits of 2008 and 2009 modified the attitudes and behaviours of IT managers and original equipment manufacturers, greatly accelerating interest in and the adoption of more cost-efficient storage strategies," says David Reinsel, group vice-president, IDC storage systems.

Oracle has invested in Mellanox Technologies, a company whose chips help speed up the flow of data among computers, says Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Oracle bought 10.2% of the Mellanox's shares on the open market. The chip-maker's market value was $718 million before the announcement on Wednesday.

Oracle is known for its business software, but it is now selling computer hardware, such as servers and data storage machines.

Eye-Fi has rolled out Eye-Fi View, an online storage platform that can store photos and videos that can be shared across the Web, states TMCnet.

Eye-Fi is a wireless memory card and has built-in WiFi to seamlessly transfer photos and videos.

Once uploaded via the e-mail sharing feature, the content will be available for seven days for free.