Plug the device into the mains, a router and a hard drive, and it becomes a personal storage cloud.
We're pushing forward again by offering customers even more flexibility, more personal storage and entirely new ways of engaging with their favourite TV.
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In essence these devices offer a very convenient personal storage cloud.
"With most flash drives, transferring a large number of photos and mp3 files can take a few minutes, " said Luc Pierart, Business Unit Manager, Personal Storage, LaCie.
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Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage.
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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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Whether it is faster direct attached storage products, personal or home cloud storage devices or improved enterprise and archive storage consumer applications storage capacity, architectures and transport speeds will continue to grow and develop.
Instead of deploying a dedicated sales team to peddle the machines to the professional print shops, Hewlett-Packard intends to use its existing sales force, which already sells servers, storage and personal computers.
The national privacy debate needs to refocus on those areas where something realistically may be done to protect our shrinking privacy rights, i.e. regulating the access, use and storage of personal information.
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Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public comment draft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.
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.
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At the CES conference in early January 2013 Seagate and Kingston demonstrated their WiFi, battery powered portable storage devices (personal cloud devices).
The company has spent most of the past year trying to break away from its core product lines, which are removable storage products for personal computers.
An industry-first, SmartSave automatically and dynamically delivers complete backup and recovery while providing additional storage space for personal files such as music, movies, podcasts and other data.
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The aforementioned apps (available for iOS and Android) will allow owners to look in live at any time, with recorded video automatically stored on the included 4GB SD card, a personal NAS or a cloud storage facility like Dropbox.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
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Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.
Next year, the company plans to launch a cloud-based storage service to add personal content to your music collection, including tracks not in the Xbox Music catalog.
Self storage owes its growing appeal to a perception among investors that the industry is recession-proof because people need storage in times of personal upheaval, natural disasters or a move.
Because of the vast amount of personal information companies will hold on individuals, storage will be a challenge.
The pictures are sent to your personal e-mail or online photo-storage account.
Copy any financial data and important personal files on to a disk or data storage device to put in your safe or safe deposit box.
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Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
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But some steps we take to be more productive, such as setting up a team account on a cloud storage service, or bringing a personal tablet into the office, can inadvertently open holes in corporate defenses.
The Optical SMART Hub helps extend the storage on devices by acting as a personal cloud.
Of course, I assume that my privacy is protected during collection, transmission, storage, and processing of all my personal data.
Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
The microdrive can be used for storage for digital cameras, handheld computers, personal digital assistants and notebook computers, IBM said.
Vega Cloud Live provides the functions like real-time synchronization of pictures and videos and smartphone personal configuration backup as well as up to 16GB of storage free of charge.
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It's also more closely tied to the cloud, saving documents to Microsoft's SkyDrive storage system by default, so your documents and personal settings are remotely accessible.
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