Noticias del Sector
20081010

A data storage crash is the last thing a collision-repair shop needs to worry about. So when John Sweigart realized that the software he was using to manage his business was no longer compatible with the way he was backing up data, he knew it was time for a different option. The Body Shop, a Garnet Valley, Pa. -based company that has four locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has hundreds of records, including images that are kept on file for appraisers and insurers for at least a year. Its tons of information, and weve had occasions where the servers crashed and we lost data, says Sweigart, principal of The Body Shop. We have paper files, but we still have to go back and re-create the electronic files. Since his business has multiple pieces of software to back up and no internal IT staff, Sweigart decided to outsource what had become a headache. He chose Verio Inc. , a software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup provider. For $29 per location per month, The Body Shop has automatic backup of all its disk drives and servers every night. Before switching to SaaS backup, each Body Shop location kept tapes on hand that an employee had to back up and take home at night. It turned into such a comprehensive process, and you had to make sure it was done right every night and that someone was actually taking [the tape], says Sweigart. We had an incredible sense of paranoia doing all this extra work, and we needed a better option. Data backup continues to be a challenge -- at small and midsize businesses in particular -- because it requires a multifaceted infrastructure of backup software, networks, servers, disk arrays and tape systems. Many companies have trouble completing backups in the allotted time, and a significant number of backups fail or complete with errors. Often, companies dont protect machines at remote locations because of the hassle, so there are gaps in backup coverage. Because of issues like these, more companies are turning to SaaS backup providers, which support and maintain a variety of applications over the Internet without requiring the ...

KIOTO (JAPÓN). - La ministra de Ciencia y Innovación, Cristina Garmendia, se reunió en Kioto (Japón) con responsables de algunas de las empresas y agencias públicas japonesas líderes a nivel mundial en desarrollo tecnológico para sondear su interés en implantar grandes laboratorios de investigación en España. Se trata del primer viaje de la titular del ramo fuera de la UE desde que ocupara sus nuevas responsabilidades de Gobierno y persigue, además, estrechar la cooperación bilateral tanto institucional como privada entre ambos estados en materia de innovaciónLa reunión tuvo lugar en el día previo a la participación de la ministra en el V Encuentro Anual de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en la Sociedad (STS), considerado como el Foro Davos del sector de la innovación a nivel mundial, que se celebra del 5 al 7 de octubre en la antigua capital imperial con la participación de más de 800 personalidades, y supone la primera ocasión en la que acude un representante del Gobierno español del máximo rango. Garmendia destacó el interés manifestado por los responsables nipones en el desarrollo tecnológico español, en especial, en las energías renovables y la biomedicina, pero también en el enfoque sectorial y geográfico que el Ejecutivo quiere dar a la I+D+i. Quería dar a conocer de primera mano a estos gig ...

Si una compañía no ofrece la velocidad real anunciada, paga. Es lo que ha sucedido con France Telecom que ha sido multada por anunciar una velocidad de conexión a Internet superior a la real. La denuncia fue presentada por Facua en 2006, por aquel entonces la empresa utilizaba el nombre comercial Wanadoo (hoy Orange) y utilizaba como reclamo publicitario: máxima velocidad hasta 20Mb. La multa ha sido impuesta por la Consejería de Economía y Consumo de la Comunidad de Madrid, donde la empresa tiene su sede social. El expediente del que forma parte, que agrupa cuatro denuncias, ha sido resuelto con una sanción pecuniaria por importe de 55. 000 euros. Aunque Facua valora la trascendencia del caso, lamenta la reducida cuantía de la multa impuesta. La asociación de consumidores advertía en su denuncia que hay usuarios que no pueden navegar ni a la décima parte de los 20 Megas publicitados. Según Facua esto se produce en primer lugar, porque la velocidad baja proporcionalmente a la distancia que hay entre el domicilio del cliente y la central telefónica desde la que se le presta el servicio, debid ...

One year is just a moment for a centuries-old oak tree and a long enough time for a man, but about half a lifecycle for a modern hard disk. Driven by tough competition, the manufacturers have made a point of updating their product lines at least once each six months. The production time of each particular modification is getting shorter, and writing HDD reviews is quite a tricky task. Just when you get enough products to perform a comparative test, there appears a new one that should be reviewed as well. And if you put the review away for a while to perform some other tests, you often return to it to find that it is too late: most of the products are already out of production, replaced with more advanced ones, and are leaving the shops rapidly. That was what happened to our review of 250GB hard disk drives we wanted to publish last summer. There are reasons why this article wasn’t completed then. So, does it make sense to get back into the past to compare things that will not be? We guess it does. HDDs with a storage capacity of 250 gigabytes currently have the most optimal price/performance ratio. Significant changes have happened only to Maxtor’s products (Seagate’s HDDs are now being sold under this brand) while the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250, Samsung SpinPoint P120S, Seagate Barracuda 7200. 9, and some models from Western Digital can still be seen in shops. Among the thirty 250GB products included into this review we have only published the results of the three HDDs from Hitachi before (for details see our article called Way to the Top: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 HDD Review). Our new testbed has a new SATA/PATA controller, so we can offer you the test results of 27 HDDs tested on it. Methodology and Testing ParticipantsHaving so many products to be tested, we will publish their characteristics in an abbreviated way so that you could just see the difference between them. The results in the tables will be sorted by model number in alphabetic order. The two generations of Hitachi’s Deskstar HDDs differ mainly in the electronics: the newer generation doesn’t support Tagged Command Queuing and its ATA model has mastered the UltraDMA 133 protocol all the manufacturers, save for Maxtor, used to neglect. The Serial ATA version has an increased data-transfer rate of 3Gbps and supports Native Command Queuing. The increased areal density allowed to reduce the number of platters per drive to two with appropriate improvements in terms of noise and power consumption. The read/write speed has grown up a little, from 60 to 65 million bytes per second at the beginning of the disk. Maxtor brought forth a multitude of 250GB models. Now that this manufacturer ceased to operate, we want to pay our homage to the respectable brand by including all the tested versions into this review. The four HDDs with the letter Y in the name are the oldest Maxtors in this review: three 80GB platters and the first-generation Serial ATA interface. They have taken part in many of our ...

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