The biggest fuss has been over the storage available to the users of the 64GB and 128GB Surface Pro.
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At the 2011 CES Kingston announced an external solid state drive (SSD) device offering up to 32 GB of external storage available to an iPad through a WiFi connection.
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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.
On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices.
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If the effort succeeds, the sheets would be the first flexible and scalable thin sheet-like electrostatic storage product available today.
It also means the Nokia Lumia 710 and HTC Radar that are currently on retail shelves outgun the Omnia M in terms of storage and available memory, with just 384MB in the Omnia M.
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.
WiFi-only and 4G LTE models of all storage capacities are available for this discount.
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Also, as on the RT model, the Windows 8 system files take up a huge chunk of available storage.
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In such a configuration, the Cruzer Glide USB allows consumers to double their available storage with a convenient portable solution.
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According to IDC, the amount of information created, captured or replicated has exceeded available storage for the first time since 2007.
In the 64GB model, I suppose I can accept 45GB of usable space, but seeing the available storage of the 32GB model halved is downright egregious.
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And there's one more issue with this Dell: available storage.
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Actually, the Intel exec worries about the supply of broadband in developers markets as well: in the next few years, he says, the world will need 6-10x the current supply of bandwidth, and 10-20x the current available storage capacity.
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In many ways, the U310 is more similar, even though it has a smaller screen than the U845: it starts with a Core i3 Sandy Bridge processor and a 500GB hard drive (disks with flash storage attached are available as an upgrade).
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Today the increased processing power of mobile devices as well as more ubiquitous network connectivity and the ability of data centers to provide (almost) always available storage capacity and applications, are causing a return to thin client computers accessing larger shared processing and storage resources.
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The answer: The cloud, the various data access, storage and hosting services available remotely over the Internet.
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The entry-level Kindle Fire, with a 7-inch screen and 16GB of storage, will be available the soonest.
All three new external storage lines will be available through leading U.S. retailers in April, with pricing to be announced at that time.
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While the Cloud based applications are already available for storage and media applications, other functions that require heavier processing (for example gaming) have not made the jump yet.
As I pointed out in this post, the available Surface Pro storage space to users is significantly lower than advertised, but this is by no means a new issue.
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Numerous digital data sources are becoming available because of a combination of increasing data storage, data processing and data transmission productivity (effective available bandwidth appears to double approximately every 21 months).
As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products.
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But cheap storage and computing resources are now available in the cloud, so analysing Big Data is no longer such a financial challenge.
Using the smallest object available for engineering data storage devices - single atoms - the same team of IBM researchers who made this movie also recently created the world's smallest magnetic bit.
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The new MobileMe file-storage and music service could be available as early as June, depending on the progress of licensing talks that are in their preliminary stages, the people familiar with the situation said.
The Clip is larger, but costs half as much, has the same storage capacity and includes features not available on the Shuffle, including a small screen to display song titles, an FM radio and a built-in microphone.
The service is available from today, with storage locations in the US, Europe and Japan.
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The top-of-the-line Sanshara drives employ synchronous NAND technology and deliver the best speed and performance available in flash-based storage.
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Under the hood, the MediaPad 10 packs a 6, 600mAh battery and 16GB of storage, though it's also available in 8GB and 32GB flavors.
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