Prior Storage Pod designs have been built into many build-it-yourself storage systems and some commercial OEMs have also picked up on the design.
The second-biggest form of bulk-energy storage, though it is dwarfed by PSH, is compressed-air energy storage (CAES).
It's not really designed for data storage -- instead, it's meant to be used as a certified Windows To Go fixed drive, "a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 workspace on a specially configured, bootable USB drive".
ENGADGET: Hands-on with Kingston's DataTraveler Workspace at IDF (video)
This April, the desktop computing giant jumped into the game with its own Windows Azure-based IaaS. Microsoft announced that it would price-match Amazon EC2 for storage, compute power and network bandwidth.
It has 16GB on-board storage, and connects with other mobile devices via Bluetooth and wi-fi.
It would use magnetic-tape storage to replace punched data cards and printers to list the content of the tape.
In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.
It was an old idea--distributed storage was a feature of networks since the 1980s--but Lewin devised a way to do it far more efficiently.
The Asus lacks a higher-memory or cellular model, though it has a memory-card slot for adding storage.
Iomega as much as admitted it last month when it joined the flash storage club, saying it will sell Iomega-branded CompactFlash and SmartMedia.
The very simple forms like driving a car -- once you know how to do it, you do it automatically -- we call that implicit memory storage.
Although reprocessing offers some benefits over long-term storage, few anti-nuclear activists embrace it.
FORBES: U.S. To Bury Almost All Existing Used Nuclear Fuel; Recycling Deferred At Least 20 Years
The Cayenne is a good example of success in over-engineering: it offers both the (somewhat) added storage utility of a mid-sized SUV, with the pleasant, roomy interior and higher driving position, combined with an astonishing sports-car like driving dynamic (especially in the S, Turbo, and Turbo S models), and, with proper options, phenomenal off-road capability (just watch the publicity video of a Cayenne Turbo S tearing up the sand dunes outside Dubai).
The conventional logic has it that Li-ion offers greater storage in a more compact space compared to the less expensive NiMH.
FORBES: Tesla Debacle Highlights Need For New EV Battery Technology
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
FORBES: Seagate Discontinuing 7,200 RPM Drives--A Focus on Capacity?
Even though Iomega won the battle of removable storage--it bought out the assets of its main rival, the bankrupt SyQuest , in late 1998--and its Zip drive is a de facto standard for PCs, Porter says the company made a critical error by selling the drives at a low margin, thinking profits would come from the sale of the disks.
All of the content is available on your phone as long as you've got a data connection -- regardless of the amount of storage available on the device -- because it pulls down thumbnails as you scroll through your gallery and requests the full-size images in real time as you tap on them.
The ASUS Transformer Book uses a SanDisk U100 SSD for high-capacity, blazing-fast storage and a small footprint that allows it to fit neatly into the sleek, ultra-thin notebook.
ENGADGET: SanDisk releases Ultra Plus and X110 SSDs with speed on a budget
It comes with 16GB of well-protected storage, but there's room for more via microSD.
ENGADGET: ASUS TOUGH 7-inch Honeycomb tablet lands in Japan ready for some corporate abuse
The data can also be uploaded to a special cloud service where it can be archived for long-term storage.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu collar monitor proves that all dogs go to the cloud
The chief of Iraq's oil marketing organisation, Mohammed al-Jibouri, said that exports of crude oil, some of it being held in storage since before the war, could resume by mid-June.
In December, Sun said it would acquire HighGround Systems, a storage-management firm based in Marlborough, Mass.
Never have I seen so many peaks crowding together, rank upon rank to the horizon--it's God's attic storage for mountains.
In doing so, they lost track of the most essential characteristic of a large-scale energy storage system: it must be cheap.
FORBES: Storage, Not Generation, is the Challenge to Renewable Energy
And a Massachusetts storage start-up believes it could be the reason.
FORBES: 500% Growth Makes Actifio History's Swiftest Storage Start-up
SkyDrive is an Internet-based storage service, but it can also automatically save copies of all your files on every computer you use.
The company said the lower revenue reflects a reduction in customer inventories, as well as weaker-than-expected end-user storage demand, which it said was down slightly from the previous quarer.
FORBES: Brocade Chops FY Q3 Guidance, Sending Stock Sharply Lower
Flip Video just launched a new "premium" take on the MinoHD -- it's fundamentally the same as the existing MinoHD, but with 8GB of storage, a bigger two-inch screen and an HDMI port, all wrapped up in either a sleek aluminum shell or a personalized design from the Flip website.
While the report focuses more on finding long-term storage for radioactive waste, it also considered the reprocessing of such fuel.
Among other things, its shares never recovered after 2005, when it grossly overpaid in an all-stock purchase of storage-software provider Veritas.
FORBES: Can The Maker Of Norton Anit-Virus Software Adapt To Technology Changes?
应用推荐