Yahoo offers unlimited storage

Yahoo has introduced a new monthly Web hosting service for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which provides unlimited hosted storage capacity and bandwidth, says Computer World.

Subscribers to the new service, priced at $11.95 a month, are free to take up as much disk space on Yahoo's servers as they need to transfer data, store information or secure e-mail.

The company's 1.5 million SME customers will soon receive instructions on how to migrate to the new model.

Reaching a new threshold in the development of flash memory, SanDisk Corporation expects to start mass production of the world's first commercial three-bit-per-cell (x3) NAND flash memory, according to Web Wire.

The 16-gigabit x3 NAND flash employs SanDisk's standard 56nm flash technology and provides over 20% more die per wafer compared to standard NAND Multi-Level Cell memory (2-bits-per-cell) on the same technology node.

The x3 technology was co-developed with Toshiba, which shares with SanDisk the development and manufacturing of advanced flash memories.

HP has introduced a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features that can help customers more effectively centralise storage to lower costs, increase administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime, reports Fox Business.

The HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array family is composed of low-cost fibre channel and iSCSI disk arrays for highly available, storage area networks that are designed for virtualised server environments.

The entry-level external storage market was $2.8 billion in 2006, according to analysts, and HP garnered a market-leading 21% market share in this segment in 2007.