Xbox storage to triple

Microsoft will triple the storage capacity of its Xbox 360 video-game console to compete with market leaders Nintendo and Sony, reports Bloomberg.com.

The Xbox 360 will have 60 gigabytes of storage starting in early August at stores in the US and Canada, the company said in a statement.

Xbox sales in the US lagged behind Nintendo's top-selling Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 in the first five months of 2008, according to NPD Group, a New York-based market researcher.

Sun Microsystems has released the industry's first 1TB tape storage drives, says Market Watch.

The new eco-efficient Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive offers customers one terabyte of native storage capacity on a single cartridge for open or mainframe systems environments.

"Sun has again delivered on its promise to help customers achieve greater datacentre efficiency and raised the bar on the industry by bringing the world's first one terabyte tape storage drive to market," said Jason Schaffer, senior director, storage marketing at Sun Microsystems.

Network-attached storage (NAS) vendor OnStor is releasing Cougar, the third generation of its clustered NAS gateway, writes Network World.

Cougar connects to storage devices from multiple vendors and uses a VMware-like virtualisation technology that improves flexibility.

The OnStor Cougar 6000 series is the successor to OnStor's Bobcat product line and triples the number of processing cores in each box from six to 18.