Ample storage is one of the best investments you can make for your workstation. If you’re not regularly backing up your data and other digital media, you definitely should be. Take it from someone who lost a gigabyte of data from a failed internal drive that wasn’t backed up—it’s not a pleasant experience. That was almost 10 years ago, and it still pains me.

An external drive or a few of them is essential for backups in the event that your computer’s built-in drive fails, but you may want to consider using them for primary storage. A pair of external drives in a mirrored RAID configuration allows you to move your data off of your computer’s built-in drive, which may be necessary as your library continually expands. If you’re capturing HD video along with still images, you know how quickly the gigabytes add up.

Drives like those featured here offer big capacities, much larger than what most computers typically include, so you’ll be able to back up all of your important flies with room

Let’s see few type of External Storage available in the market (more…)

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Do you aware how many ATM standards bodies?

Four main standards bodies are associated with ATM standards. The international bodies are the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Forum and the United Nations agency, the International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T). The regional bodies are the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

The ATM forum leads the way in developing and rolling out ATM standards. A group of manufacturers created this forum to ensure the rapid progress of the ATM standardization process, and it wanted to advertise ATM capability. This group is also active in drawing up solutions for the problems and challenges generated in ATM application.

International bodies

The ATM forum is divided into the

• Technical Committee, This committee comprises principal members of the forum, and it is responsible for the development of technical standards.
• Market Awareness and Education (MA&E) Committee – This committee comprises principal members, and it is responsible for educational material, press releases, and other related presentations that raise awareness of ATM capabilities in the telecommunications market.
• End-User Roundtable (ENR) – This committee comprises user members, and it is responsible for developing an understanding of user requirements for ATM.

You can contact the ATM forum via their official web site at http://www.atmforum.com/. (more…)

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