Update: theITChannel Vidcast – Host Christel Quek takes you on a quick tour  of the event, V.Clone and Drop Guard after the jump

EMC now has an end-to-end storage market from the low cost consumer portable storage to high end enterprise grade SAN storages. The good thing is, we would see some of the higher grade storage software from the enterprise flowing down to the consumer products. We can only hope that one day enterprise class storage systems and software becomes widely available to use data consuming folks at home.

The event was held at the loft at duxton hill, they simulated a home environment where iomega products plays a part in managing the home’s data storage. The showcase includes Network Attached Storage (NAS) to prosumer 4 disk high available storage. Where the storage had some form of data management and data protection system called RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disk) and it allows you to combine multiple disk into one large volume called striping. To media centers and practical storage usage like CCTV (close circuit television) surveillance footage.

With RSA ( a large data security company and a pioneer in the data security encryption algorithms) under EMC’s group of companies, they also provide secure storage solution for those of us who has valuable data stored on portable media. These drives comes with high end enterprise grade security encryption on their disk. So you won’t even need to worry about encrypting your data when you store them on a portable device. This helps when you lose your portable hard disk or if your portable hard disk is stolen.

Two things that attracted me to the whole development of the consumer level storage is that iomega is really leveraging on the current trends of portable data storage and ability to merge with it’s own software or 3rd party partners. They are making it easy for consumers to expand their data storage requirements while providing easy to use software to manage their data needs.

With partnerships with VMware, they are able to preinstall V.Clone, a software that enables you to clone your working environment and bring your current working environment anywhere you go on a portable hard disk. In fact you can bring different working environments for different type of work or play as long as your portable can hold the space for your working environments. The beauty of this software is that you are able to keep your environments in sync. Meaning even if you are working overseas with a clone of your environment and when you come back to home base, you are able to sync not on the files that you are working on, it also syncs the updates you have made to the software you’ve installed and the operating system.

This is probably an extension or a lighter version of the popular VMware V.Motion software where you can clone a live system and migrate it to a virtual environment while it is still running. If you remember the Norton Ghost, this is like Norton Ghost with VMware Virtualisation all rolled into one.

We will update with videos soon. Updated: Video of the Event

Producer: Michael Foong
Camera/Photographer: Wilfred Phua and Christel Quek
Host: Christel Quek

What’s in this video is I will show you the stuff I bought for the iPad and the iPad shipment itself from USUnlocked. As a first part of the whole iPad Experience Series, you will see how I unboxed the package, skinning the iPad with a screen protector, the iPad Cases and Sleeves.

The highlight of this episode is that on video I will show you how I cut and shaved down a standard sim into a MicroSim format and made the iPad 3G work on Singtel 3G, my current iPhone Data provider.  Enjoy the video and don’t forget to leave your comments.

theITChannel Vidcast: the iPad 3G Experience from Michael Foong on Vimeo.

theITChannel Podcast Live: Episode 41 – The Next Wave from Michael Foong on Vimeo.

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1. News

- Opera Mobile App for the iPhone

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/opera-mini-iphone-app/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/skyfire-boss-on-possible-iphone-port-stay-tuned-for-news/

http://lifehacker.com/5516038/browser-speed-tests-iphones-mobile-safari-vs-opera-mini

http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/04/opera-mini-on-the-iphone.html

- Twitter acquires Tweetie/AteBits

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/with-tweetie-acquisition-twitter-locks-on-mobile/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

- iPhone OS 4. Jailbroken

http://gizmodo.com/5518414/iphone-40-beta-jailbreak-tool-released-for-iphone-3g?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)

http://tnerd.com/2010/04/08/how-to-unlock-or-jailbreak-iphone-os-4-0-ih8sn0w-claims-to-have-done-it-already/

2. Can you Live without Social Networks?
Sherwin’s Experiment

3. Make your mobile phone battery last longer
1. http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Cell-Phone-Battery-Last-Longer
2. http://technology.inc.com/hardware/articles/200612/cellphonebattery.html
3. http://www.cnet.com.au/extend-your-mobile-phone-s-battery-life-240064190.htm
4. http://nokiae50.info/articles/7-tips-to-extend-your-battery-life
5. http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/23/extend-your-iphone-3gs-battery-life.html
6. http://ipod.about.com/od/iphone3g/tp/iphone-battery-life.htm
7. http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/07/how-to-extend-your-iphone-battery-life.html
8. http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

External Batteries

http://www.energizerpowerpacks.com/sg/products/sp2000/

http://www.mophie.com/

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperMac-External-MacBook-Battery-and-Car-Charger-s/91.htm

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This week we covered the Malaysian Unifi Triple Play Service from Telekom Malaysia and how it will affect Malaysia’s broadband usage and at the same time provide some competition to Astro with their IPTV service. Telekom being the monopoly in Malaysia, there isn’t really any competition for a triple play service.

We also talked about the impending iPad shipping and how we can get one here in Asia. We wonder why is Apple making it so difficult for asians to get any of these new tech. Actually almost every company does that to us. Well I hope we develop something in asia that we will not ship to the US until a later date. Go Japan!

The biggest issues or complains users make in most smart phones today is the issue of Multi-Tasking. It’s also a fine balance between functionality and battery life. We have identified situations where we need multi-tasking and when we do not need them the question remains, do we truly need it on a mobile device and should it function like a desktop multi-tasking?

We then talked about Twestival in Singapore. An Amazing event and support from the social network/media community.

Links after the jump

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1. UniFi
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/misery-loves-company.html
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/tm-leads-for-the-briefest-of-moments-then-decides-to-follow.html

2. iPad shipping next week
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

and how to get one in Asia or Wait?
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/the-hour-is-nigh.html

Apple bought the iPad trademark from Fujitsu
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/that-was-easy-apple-buys-ipad-trademark-from-fujitsu/
http://gizmodo.com/5503047/apple-now-owns-ipad-entirely?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)

3. Let’s address the issues of Multitasking on Mobile Devices
http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/26/entelligence-mobile-multitasking-is-mostly-a-myth/

4. Twestival Singapore 2010
http://singapore.twestival.com

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Links to other news we talked about after the jump

2. Location Based Apps Heating Up

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/17/location-apps-app-store-apple/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/17/foursquare-gowalla-twitter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/03/10/tips-trips-side-side-comparison-gowalla-foursquare-updates/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web)

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/foursquare-location-apps.html

3. Windows Phone 7 Series

8 things you didn’t know

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9171558/8_things_you_didn_t_know_about_Windows_Phone_7

Multi-Tasking

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/windows-phone-7-series-multitasking-the-real-deal/

No Cut and Paste

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/microsoft-on-copy-and-paste-in-windows-phone-7-series-people-d/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/

It can make a call

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/yes-windows-phone-7-series-can-make-a-phone-call/

Marketplace can revoke apps remotely

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/windows-phone-marketplace-can-remotely-revoke-app-licenses/

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