"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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"With today's announcements, it's clear SanDisk is going all out in its commitment to delivering industry-leading SSD technology to our customers, " said Kevin Conley, senior vice president and general manager, client storage solutions.

ENGADGET: SanDisk releases Ultra Plus and X110 SSDs with speed on a budget

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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"Streaming content across numerous mobile devices, not just from the cloud but locally, has become a common practice for today's consumers, " said Bev Crair, general manager, of Intel's Storage Division.

ENGADGET: Intel launches Atom CE5300-based storage platform with multiple streams, smart scaling

You have to be to think you can get a onetime stripper to convince a tech manager that he needs a new multimillion-dollar storage system.

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For example, a finance manager is the most qualified person to define policies around storage of financial information based on criticality of the data.

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"Much of today's programming targets men in a one-dimensional way ... tattoos or pawn shops or storage lockers or axes or hillbillies, " Esquire Channel's general manager Adam Stotsky said.

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"The small and medium business market for storage in Latin America is constantly growing, " said Fabio Gaia, General Manager of Officer Distibuidora, Iomega's largest reseller partner in Latin America.

ENGADGET: Iomega releases two new StorCenter NAS drives to contain that ever-expanding data waistline

"Our new G-DRIVE slim is yet another way that we're making high quality storage more accessible and affordable for consumers, " said Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, Hitachi GST Branded Business.

ENGADGET: Hitachi GST's G-Drive Slim: world's thinnest 2.5-inch external hard drive