Xbox gets triple storage

The Xbox 360 Pro console now comes with triple the storage space of the original 20GB Pro console, but at the same recommended retail price, says Scoop.

The larger hard drive can be used for storing the growing wealth of digital entertainment available for the console.

This includes more than 300 Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox original titles, game content such as maps, new features and content that extends the life of a game.

IBM has quietly released the first technology from its acquisition of XIV, the Israeli grid storage start-up headed by a former EMC guru, says Computer World.

However, the product appears to lack some high-end features and is targeted at only a very limited set of customers, says Arun Taneja, an analyst at the Taneja Group.

"They have exposed a very limited set of capabilities that this architecture is capable of," says Taneja. "They're not very elaborate in places that matter."

Intel is providing its new Tolapai chip set, and storage vendor Dot Hill is providing the data storage arrays for Hermes, a private space travel project, says eWeek.

The Dot Hill arrays using the Tolapai chip sets will provide real-time feedback to the flight crew for the Hermes shuttle, which is being designed to eventually reach a suborbital altitude of 62 miles.

The space shuttle was designed by Morris Jarvis and is being developed on the premise that anyone should be able to take a trip into space.