Mobility Software is a Goose

Maybe you saw this Goose wandering around Planet Reseller at CeBIT? The wandering Goose was from the Hikanoos stand. They sell software and a drive under this bird brand.

The point of the wandering goose at CeBIT was to emphasize Goose lets you work safely anywhere, anytime on any computer. Goose enables mobility with security “as airtight as a goose”.

The Goose software turns any USB key into a secure and mobile portable computer device. You get a complete Continue reading...

What does it take these days to break in the external storage market?

On one hand in external drives, you have the large traditional suppliers who have brand as their biggest asset. On the other hand, you have companies entering the market based on design because storage is now a business of fashion. And thirdly, you have other companies who enter the market based on including an extra feature, typically added security benefits.

Rocstor, based near Los Angeles, has cracked the US market by combining both design and security. Rocsecure (division of Rocstor) is an industry leader in Secure Encrypted digital data content storage. Between their Rocbit and Rocsafe product lines, Rocsecure is able to offer secure Real-Time hardware data encryption AES 256‐Bit and up to 192‐Bit Triple DES encryption with multiple interfaces and cross‐platform compatibility in both external and notebook‐centered solutions.

Rocstor made their first foray into CeBIT this year, showing 10 new product lines and announcing another ten will come before June 2009. Rocstor makes desktop and rack-mounted RAID storage, but we looked at their pocket drives at CeBIT. Drives like their new AIRHAWK H series. As with their other Rocstor products, these drives are both bus‐powered and bootable, says Anthony Rink, VP of Sales (shown in photo at his CeBIT stand).

The new AIRHAWK Pocket Drives contain a fast, high capacity 2.5” SATA drive mechanism, with up to 800 MB/sec transfer speeds and multiple interfaces in a very stylish case (but one designed for thermal efficiency and silent operation). The bootable feature allows the user to boot, access and operate all programs and data via any another computer under the same OS environments with this hard drive.

After 20 years sell hard drive technologies, LaCie of France wants to be a first mover to the cloud: they bought Caleido AG (Swiss online storage solution called Wuala but pronounced like the French “Voila”).

Go LaCie

Hitachi GST says it’s the “dawn of a new age in storage technology, and is promoting the “Tera Era.”

As the distribution of video content to social networking sites and to handheld devices becomes more commonplace, storage capacity requirements will only continue to increase. This need, says HGT, has led us to a new era of storage where a single hard disk drive can store 250,000 MP3s, 300 movies or over 333,000 photos. This is the Tera Era and Hitachi launched the self-proclaimed Continue reading...

The Average Selling Price (ASP) of 3.5-inch internal Hard Disk Drives (HDD) in Q2 08 dropped 8%, according to data from researcher Context, covering distribution sales for France, Germany and the UK.

Prices drop from Euro 62.7 (excl. tax) in Q108, to Euro 57.6 in Q208 (see table on web site). The lowest peak was registered in May '08, with Euro 53, down from Euro 62 in April.

In the 2.5-inch internal HDD sector (where the ASP had been stable during Q2, Q3 and Q407, ranging between Euro 112 and Continue reading...

Thomas Grashoff, VP of Longshine Technologie Europe GmbH, demonstrates the portability of the new 6” E-book.

Users can read books, play MP3, store photos, and view documents in this thin, handheld format. With 1GB NAND flash, 128MB SDRAM, SD Card (up to 8GB), WiFi and USB, the E-Book is fully featured to keep up with mobile life. Batteries conveniently go on stand-by if you are not turning pages.

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