Data Storage News Summary (TM) - August 08, 2006

In The News

• Flash tectonics
• Is Storage Headed For Irrelevance?

Feature

• Kryder’s Law

Financial releases, Market notes

• Stocks fall as oil price soars
• Microsoft Wants Vista PCs to Pop
• Seagate to Report FQ4 and Year-End 2006 Financial Results On Aug 8,06

Focus on: The Economy

• U.S. Housing Market May Land Harder Than Economists Predict

Focus on: Products

• Sun to roll out new modular storage arrays this week
• Seagate ships portable 160GB 2.5" drive
• Hitachi DZ-HS303: A DVD and HDD Camcorder
• Sony Expands HDD Camcorder Lineup As It Debuts 60GB Unit
• SATA Storage Solution non-disruptively scales up to 480 TB