Over the past couple of years this had led to a number of valuable acquisitions by major digital storage companies of storage system suppliers that have built specialized equipment to service this market.

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The first half of 2011 has seen amazing levels of consolidation in the digital storage industry, from individual storage device manufacturers to storage system vendors.

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The LTFS LTO file system allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS file systems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.

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Geared toward a younger (18 and under) demographic, MG will use Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and feature a four-inch screen, 1GB RAM, 4GB built-in memory, an SD port for additional storage options, a DebitSmart digital wallet system to pay for games, a 1.3MP front-facing camera, micro USB 2.0, and a TCC8925 Cortex A5 processor.

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Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences.

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With the amount of digital data in data centers growing annually and storage budgets highly constrained open source storage system designs can fill an important niche for data centers and IT people comfortable with installing and maintaining their own hardware.

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