Storage Guide on Macworld

MAC-related storage devices have always accounted for an important part of the Macworld, and this year is no exception, the beginning of the Macworld, there are a variety of MAC storage devices released. EMC, HP, Iron Mountain, Promise Technology, Atto and other vendors have launched products and services specifically targeted at Apple users.

Apple's Enterprise storage path

A number of vendors support the real product of Mac launch reflects a common message, according to Storageio founder and senior analyst Greg Schulz analysis is: "From the iphone in the enterprise messaging and Information system integration began, Apple Mac products are entering the enterprise market, Mac products are no longer limited to the traditional creative content creation area. ”

With the gradual maturation of the cloud storage concept, Web2.0 and social networks are highly respected, which helps Apple products gain a higher share of the enterprise market. For example, SOONR launched an iphone service that makes it easy for the iphone to access PC files or Mac files through the cloud. Soonr can automatically back up files on a PC or Mac computer to an online store. Soonr says this service supports a variety of document formats, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Even if there are no apps associated with these documents on the iphone, Soonr can still browse the files on the iphone.

In fact, Apple's enterprise storage strategy was deployed 2 years ago. According to TBR (Technology Business Research), Apple Mac is increasing its market share in the company. TBR analyst Ezra Gottheil said: "Two years ago, Apple began to use the x86 platform, so Windows can also run on Mac hardware, since then, Mac market share has been increasing." Things have changed with the release of Time Machine, a powerful automated backup component that can effectively reduce the amount of times a user spends on things like files, naming, versioning, and so on. Time machine can work with Apple's own peripherals time capsule, USB drives, and Apple's server software, which is also a key area where enterprise storage works.

Multiple storage vendors publish support for Mac products

It is with Apple in the corporate sector that a number of storage vendors are starting to introduce products that match the apple market.

EMC has launched an online backup solution for Mac users in the Mozy product line retrospect backup and recovery software, positioned between Apple's time machine and enterprise-level backup applications. It is understood that the software provides the functionality, ease of use, flexibility, and reliability required by professional users as well as midsize enterprises.

HP's MediaSmart server ex485/ex487 Home Server works in conjunction with Macs or PCs, all of which are based on the Windows Home Server platform and have the same automatic backup capabilities as previous products. They also have media collector capabilities to centrally manage various digital media files in the network. They can also be used as an itunes server and as an extended backup device for Mac-series computers running leopard systems or apple time Machine software. HP said the two home servers used the 2.0GHz Celeron processor and 2GB DDR2 memory, integrated gigabit NIC, 4 USB 2.0 ports and one eSATA port, built with four hard drive racks. 750GB HDD version to 599 U.S. dollars, 1.5TB to 749 dollars.

HP MediaSmart Server ex485

In the context of enterprise-focused raid, Atto has released the Faststream SC 8500 RAID storage controller, which has 8Gbps FC connections to 3Gbps Sas/sata disks, which also has a expresssas for Das (direct-attached storage) environment R380 RAID Adapter. The Lacie Hard disk Max, designed by the renowned industrial designer Neil Poulton, has 2TB capacity and is dedicated to setting up a RAID network.

For Apple's fancy Web file service, Iomega Home is the timely launch of media network Hard Drive network hard disk, according to the instructions only three steps to build up to 1TB of networked storage devices for file backup, on the network of computers can be streaming all kinds of media smoothly.

Mobile storage, verbatim for Macs and Windows launched a new store go Micro usb flash drive, 2GB price 19.99 USD, 4GB price 29.99 U.S. dollars, 8GB price of 49.99 U.S. dollars. The Quad Interface desktop hard drive, which is also produced by verbatim, has 500GB and 1TB of two capacity, compatible with Macs and PCs, and supports USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800,esata II, 500GB price 179.99 USD, 1TB price 249.99 USD.