Backed by clever marketing campaigns and a growing need for backup storage, the Zip was the surprise computer hit of 1996.
Solar panels will supply the electricity at Supercharger stations, with a 500-kilowatt-hour supersize version of its car battery as backup storage.
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Data reduction (compression and deduplication), once only implemented in backup storage, is showing up in some shops as a reality for primary storage.
Similarly, with less critical services, you should be able to reprovision from backup storage after a short but acceptable outage, even when the primary storage has been lost.
Make a backup of your Google data, just as you would backup any storage device you used at home.
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Likewise most backup and storage for user generated content will stay on local devices even if they can be accessed through the internet.
With it, students can turn their iPod or iPhone into a backup USB storage device to insure they have the documents and media they need everywhere they go.
The LaCie 2big Quadra USB 3.0 and LaCie 4big Quadra USB 3.0 are ideal storage solutions for intensive content creation, secure backup, or massive desktop storage.
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The cloud is used for offsite storage and backup and allows for an easier disaster recovery process.
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There also is a new feature called Storage Spaces that makes it easy to manage your various storage and backup options.
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Many computers now contain multiple HDDs for expanded storage and backup purposes.
"These latest additions to our lineup of products and features demonstrate yet again why the Clickfree name has become synonymous with effort-free computer backup, " said Storage Appliance Corp.
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Design and monitor database backup, archive and storage capacity.
The new Travelstar HDD is available in the HGST Hard Drive Retail Kit as well as in the award-winning Touro Mobile Pro USB 3.0 external storage solution for simple add-on storage and backup.
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The two new personal offerings come only weeks after Iomega leaned into the enterprise storage market with a line of network-attached storage servers that are aimed at basic storage and backup applications on corporate networks.
One relatively recent survey of 550 startups from BestVendor found a majority use cloud-based resources: QuickBooks (71%) for accounting, Google Analytics (70%) for BI, Salesforce.com (59%) for customer relationship management, and Dropbox (39%) for storage and backup.
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Tech-savvy students may prefer to backup their data with a cloud storage option.
An industry-first, SmartSave automatically and dynamically delivers complete backup and recovery while providing additional storage space for personal files such as music, movies, podcasts and other data.
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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.
Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.
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It is secure storage that acts both as backup and allows remote access by users you have approved.
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The LaCie Blade Runner is equipped with 10GB of complimentary Wuala Secure Cloud Storage and user-friendly backup software.
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Customers can also free up additional storage space by creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition.
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Create an off-site backup by uploading your data to a cloud storage provider such as iCloud or Dropbox (there are countless more).
Vega Cloud Live provides the functions like real-time synchronization of pictures and videos and smartphone personal configuration backup as well as up to 16GB of storage free of charge.
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These devices provide direct attached storage that can be used to save user content, such as in a backup, to move content from place to place faster than a network allows or even for expanding the useful storage capacity for some common household devices such as some set top boxes or DVRs.
This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.
Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.
Through acquisition, Dell built up an arsenal of storage products and technologies from leading edge disk storage brands (Compellent and EqualLogic) to backup (AppAssure and Quest), archive (Exanet), and deduplication (Ocarina), spending billions along the way.
The high growth of digital content is driving the need for high capacity storage to aggregate, host, distribute, manage, backup and use digital content.
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