Remote storage is becoming a standard for most enterprises and has even gained traction with retail customers with services like iCloud, Dropbox, Skydrive and Google Drive.
That kind of remote storage is being viewed as the future of computing by companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, all of whom offer cloud-storage features.
Doherty points out that pay-TV subscribers also stand to benefit from lower energy use if they can swap their set-top boxes for devices without hard drives that connect to remote storage servers.
The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.
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Facebook, Linkedin and twitter discussions of the event utilize storage on remote servers (cloud storage).
Basically it's a USB security key that supposedly encrypts data stored to the thumb drive using AES, provides remote encrypted storage, creates a secure connection to the internet, and deletes your browser's cookies and history files.
Google is charging down the same path: it offers music sync, photo sync, Exchange-like sync, cloud storage, remote device back-up and updates.
These enterprise storage solutions support the growth of cloud storage and remote applications that are an important key to success of smart mobile devices.
Access to information on the cloud is a key to many consumer devices and the usefulness of services and storage through remote data centers is a major enabler of tablet computers and smart phones.
Larger storage capacity for a mobile device can rely on capacity in the cloud from a remote data center or on-board storage, such as in a 128 GB tablet.
It provides an infrastructure that allows sharing of dynamic collections of computational systems, large data storage and other remote facilities that an individual may use.
On-line storage is behind remote backup and disaster recovery, on-line content sharing and video streaming, among many other applications currently popular with mobile as well as home-based smart connected devices.
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.
As a result of its implementation of Granite, the law firm is removing storage media from its remote offices and shutting down its data centers in all but the four hubs.
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.
These include low-cost remote access appliances like the PogoPlug, midrange NAS storage devices such as Netgear's Stora, and expensive but powerful solutions that cater to the technically inclined, such as HP's MediaSmart products powered by Windows Home Server.
As you'd expect, the cans fold flat for storage and feature an iDevice-compatible inline remote and mic.
It is secure storage that acts both as backup and allows remote access by users you have approved.
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The XStreamHD FAST Start package includes one HD Media Server with 1TB storage, one HD Media Receiver, RF One Remote Control, and all of the accessories, including one 3m High-Speed Cat2 certified HDMI cable and two 3m Cat5e Ethernet cables.
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Previously the only remote info users could get from their DVRs was the percentage of storage currently in use and what recordings were scheduled to take place, but now users can see individual recordings, choose to watch any of them now, change their deletion priority, or even delete them remotely.
Users will similarly find a new lock screen and the Verizon Remote Diagnostics tools, along with a file manager that now supports online storage.
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Some even go beyond file storage to include built-in editing and collaboration tools that live on remote servers instead of on devices.
Both native apps and Web apps will be powered by increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cloud resources: storage, computation, collaboration, transactions, location services, content distribution, and remote 3D video rendering.
The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
Digital storage still remains our means of accessing much that is useful, interesting and entertaining, whether local or remote.
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