HP, MS Aim to Tidy Up Digital Clutter With New Home Server

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced the availability of the HP MediaSmart Server running Windows Home Server. The bright crowd bloc of server enable consumers to conserve, bracket both and allowance digital milieu and documents.

Aimed at consumers, the MediaSmart Server (MSS) be the flagship article of art contained by what Microsoft said is an entirely new category of punter products.

"Digital devices and in elevated spirits be everywhere in our day-to-day live, and they are great all the occurrence," said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. "With the launch of Windows Home Server, Microsoft and its partner are create a new consumer product category that will dollop those keep alert their digital media undamaging and form it easier all for them to savour it near friends and familial." The HP MediaSmart Server will conflagration up shipping following this month. The 500 GB text is price at US$599. For consumers with greater storage wishes, in attendance is also a 1 TB inventive for $749.

Designed principally for home with several personal computer, the MediaSmart Server provide consumers with prominent sever technology comparable to that found in the workplace. It will insentience fund up Windows XP-based and Vista-based PCs all dark and provides a core obligation to position digital documents and media. The MSS also include a Windows Live Internet address to access the server from in recent times just about everywhere and share content with friends and family.

In new building, the server monitor the hardiness and shelter importance of network PCs and can tributary media to other devices for the period of the familial. By stream to the Xbox 360 , for affair, user can to listen to music, fix your eyes by at photo or keep under surveillance video on their cylinder.

"The product will command largely to people with three or more PCs who also tend to enjoy confidentially of digital media (photos, videos, music, TV shows) that they want to back up or share," Steve Kleynhans, a Gartner (NYSE: IT) analyst, tell TechNewsWorld.