The reason is simple, the costs for content storage is less than other technologies such as solid-state memory.
Consumers are increasingly driving data creation and lead in the growth of local as well as cloud content storage.
Content and social go together like peanut butter and chocolate and like content storage, there is a lot enterprise social market waiting to be gobbled up.
Both companies were innovators in developing digital storage architectures serving particular needs for rich content storage in archiving, digital content libraries, special effects and post production.
Wholesale storage providers like Amazon S3, or value-added providers of content storage, like Box.net, have proven they can offer scale and elasticity unmatched by on-premise infrastructure.
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Its first shake-up was the introduction of the iPod, and later the iPhone, but these devices required syncing to a computer primarily for software updates and content storage.
Also intelligent storage layering with flash memory used for high performance content delivery can result in HDD storage used more for content storage rather than high performance, and thus providing a relative cost savings.
This is made possible by a new content storage and distribution system via Comcast's extensive fiber network and enables the company to offer significantly more content in the near future, including TV series, kids content, music and other special programming.
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This growth in the overall amount of content overwhelms our efforts to concentrate the storage of content and increase the utilization rates of digital storage systems.
Skyera is also offering compression and deduplication to lower the total cost to storage content on a flash memory based enterprise storage system.
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However, at some point commercial and consumer content will meet, leading to whole new digital storage and content opportunities!
On the other hand, rapid access to content is driving new storage and memory tiers to improve overall content access times.
All the content on the storage device can also be accessed from outside the home network to allow immediate access.
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For those computer users with significant content needs dual storage approaches like the Fusion Drive as well as hybrid HDDs could offer an ideal marriage of capacity and speed.
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Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.
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SharePortGo II also features a USB port and SD card slot for sharing content from a storage device or charging smartphones and tablets, as well as an Ethernet port that enables users to easily connect to an existing network in a conference room or hotel room.
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Recent economic uncertainty, combined with a trend toward content growth on remote data centers (cloud storage) and the use of this content on mobile devices, is impacting the demand for digital storage capacity.
Network connected external storage devices in the home will act as caches for internet content as local cloud storage plays a more coordinated role with remote clouds.
The LaCie 2big Quadra USB 3.0 and LaCie 4big Quadra USB 3.0 are ideal storage solutions for intensive content creation, secure backup, or massive desktop storage.
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Like other local storage technologies, optical storage for content distribution faces new competition from cloud based content access.
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It will last about 3 hours if you use it to access content from their Cloud storage over Wi-Fi.
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Large capacity HDDs using this technology will find uses for near line content libraries, cloud storage environments and public data centers.
In parallel to the expansion of the public cloud, many organizations have started to deploy their own private clouds for internal applications and content (archival) storage.
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The growth of information that is available on-line has led to a great number of new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery to data analytics.
The All-in-One Mobile Companion features a USB port for sharing content from a USB storage device or charging smartphones, as well as an Ethernet Port that enables users to easily connect to an existing network in a conference room or hotel room.
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With simple installation and an intuitive web-based interface, the DockStar network adapter will change the way people control the access and sharing of their content by creating their own personal storage 'clouds' while keeping the security and privacy of the drives' content because it is located within their home.
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Attendees will have a chance to hear talks covering digital storage products and systems for content capture, video production, content distribution and archiving, including two keynotes by end users of digital storage as well as an end user session.
Presentations for the event were made available on the IEEE Sections Congress web site using more cloud storage and USB sticks given to attendees with IEEE content on them was another application of digital storage.
However for users that need access to more content than these mobile devices can handle, cloud storage offers a way to both acquire new content, stream content to mobile devices and archive content that can be accessed from these devices.
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