The HDD companies, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are participating in better management of storage device energy use, as are flash manufacturers such as SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba and many flash based storage equipment suppliers such as Skyera, Smart Storage Systems and Virident.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
The Optical SMART Hub helps extend the storage on devices by acting as a personal cloud.
Thin client (lower storage capacity and processing power) products such as smart phones and tablets would greatly benefit from the larger storage capacity that 20 nm NAND flash will provide.
The Smart Grid accommodates all generation and storage options.
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For these users larger local storage, either in a smart mobile device or located in a personal network may be very attractive.
Today, music is stored on a variety of digital devices in the home including desktops, laptops, notebook PCs, network storage drives, tablets and smart phones.
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With the rise of mobile smart phones and tablet computers with limited local storage, services available through the Internet, including additional digital storage, have become critical.
This requires smart silicon, but also rethinking architectures and storage.
To eliminate traffic bottlenecks in storage systems and enterprise and mobile networks smart silicon must be integrated within strategic areas of IT infrastructures.
Consumers will also have access to 5GB of free cloud-based storage for images and videos, accessible through compatible Samsung Smart TVs, PCs and mobile devices.
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These enterprise storage solutions support the growth of cloud storage and remote applications that are an important key to success of smart mobile devices.
LG's Smart TV platform provides a customizable dashboard and smart connectivity features that streamline access to content from compatible smartphones, laptops, storage devices and the Internet.
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.
Even with the growth of thin client mobile devices such as tablet computers and smart phones and the use of content only borrowed from the web rather than copied our total storage requirements are growing.
The researchers showed how to get round the limited computational abilities of the smart tags to use them as an attack vector and corrupt databases holding information about what a company has in storage.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Among the apps coming for Linksys Smart Wi-Fi are a number that will take advantage of the platform's new ability to remotely access storage connected to the router.
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