But NetApp has hit back, claiming its rival's product is only copying its own technology. The server allows quicker and easier retrieval of cumbersome files and is part of EMC's Content Addressed Storage (CAS) architecture.
The money collected from levies on "recording mediums" goes into a fund to pay musicians and songwriters for revenues lost from consumers' personal copying. Other mediums, such as DVDs, are not deemed appropriate for personal copying.
Typically, sharing files in a SAN environment requires copying the data, which eats up storage capacity. The file-level approach allows multiple users to share files without copying the data - for instance, several automobile engineers could work...
We put many precautions in place to protect our network and assure against customer data loss, which includes regular system backups to prevent file storage issues," Brooke Richardson, product manager for MSN and Hotmail, wrote in an email.
Removable storage devices are one of the fastest ways to take the firewall out of the equation. And then there is the accidental loss. You want to listen to some of your music in work so you plug your iPod in and move across a load of MP3 files...
But the loss of millions of data files by HMRC suggests it was not the best time to be making an argument for how the public sector could and should be doing more with the information it collects. We also need independent auditing of how data is...