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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) has introduced two new CinemaStar(TM) hard drives that are optimized to be used in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available in a broad range of capacities up to one terabyte (1TB) and the CinemaStar 5K320 delivers up to 320GB of capacity and incorporates innovative Hitachi CoolSpin technology. CoolSpin drives use a motor speed optimized for low power and acoustics, enabling Hitachi to deliver the industry’s quietest, most energy-efficient 3.5-inch hard drives.
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Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of flywheel clean energy storage systems, has eclipsed Active Power as the world’s number one producer of flywheel energy storage systems. For the first half of 2008, Pentadyne has shipped 34% more flywheel systems than the former market leader, Active Power. Pentadyne systems are more energy efficiency than that of Active Power. In fact, they use 90% less standby energy than the Active Power CleanSource flywheel, apart from requiring fewer, shorter and far less costly maintenance.
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Xiotech Corporation announced that Albion College chose two Xiotech(R) Magnitude 3D(R) 4000 (SAN) systems, along with TimeScale(R) GeoRep software. The new storage systems and software will support the college’s move to a virtualized server environment, while ensuring student, faculty and administrative files are available and protected from natural and unnatural events.

Founded in 1835, Albion, Mich.-based Albion College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college. The school provides educational and research services to more than 1,900 students and 135 full-time faculty members.

To continue offering its students and faculty members new and improved technology services, Albion College needed to upgrade its existing IT infrastructure and stop server sprawl. From 1998 to 2008 the college added 50 physical servers to its data center, bringing the total number of servers to 70. Management of all these servers and their direct-attached storage was taking a tremendous amount of staff time.

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SMART Modular Technologies (WHH) Inc., a leading and independent manufacturer of memory modules, solid-state storage products, embedded computing subsystems and TFT-LCD display products has recently launched six new, 1.8 inch and 2.5 inch SSD’s for various Embedded, Industrial, Defense, and Server Applications. Some of the highlighting features of these drives are low power consumption, increased performance, high capacity, and unmatched security. The company has launched these drives under the Xceed family of its industrial grade storage solutions. The 2nd generation products have broadened the company’s SSD product offerings. All the new storage products are launched under the brand names of XceedLite, XceedUltra, XceedUltraX, and XceedSecure.
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Virtium Technology Inc., an eminent manufacturer of various memory and storage products for specialized computers in demanding environments, recently unveiled the DDR3, 0.72-inch Very Low Profile (VLP), unbuffered DIMM module. With this launch, it added a new and an updated product to its family of DDR3 memory products for embedded systems. The newly released memory product is ideal for space-constrained applications in embedded computing for the next-generation products in AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and MicroTCA (MTCA), as well as various other applications that require the blade server form factor. The company has made available Module densities of up to 2GB for engineering evaluation.
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