Toshiba has announced the AL13SE series of 2.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS hard disk drives for server and storage applications. The AL13SE is the first 10,000 RPM enterprise drive from Toshiba to offer 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba’s 10k RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator.
Quest Software has announced NetVault Extended Architecture (XA), a new platform that unifies Quest’s data protection technologies in order to align backup and recovery to client SLAs. While legacy data protection software often focuses on servers and other infrastructure, the new NetVault solution is aimed at management and protection in mixed physical, virtual, and cloud
Updated StoreOnce Catalyst software for HP StoreOnce Backup will allow application servers at remote sites to send deduplicated backups directly to a centralized StoreOnce Backup system. StoreOnce Catalysts also maintains local copies for recovery without additional hardware. According to HP, updates to StoreOnce have allowed backup performance up to 100 terabytes (TB) per hour and
Hitachi’s G-Technology line of external hard drives has long been a favorite for creative professionals and others who generally need some combination of reliability, performance, capacity and redundancy. While Hitachi has several products in the G-Tech line that specialize in one or more of those qualities, their latest effort is an external storage generalist that
The GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter stakes a Thunderbolt claim for Seagate in the external desktop storage market. Intel and Apple are betting that consumers will adopt Thunderbolt technology for rapid external storage, and the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter shows that other manufacturers are playing along. Seagate’s GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter is an option for those
Infortrend has added a 6Gb/s SAS solution to the EonStor DS G7 series, the latest generation of its EonStor DS family of storage products. These new Direct Attached Storage (DAS) systems follow up on new fibre channel systems announced earlier in the year. The EonStor DS G7 provides throughput of up to 5,200 MB/s and
Paragon Software Group has announced the release of Paragon Virtualization Manager 12 Professional. The newest version of Virtualization Manager Professional has been updated and designed to solve the challenges migration and virtual management face, making tasks easier and more efficient for even inexperienced users.
Western Digital has long made excellent external hard drive solutions that appeal to creative types and others who want large capacity local drive access with the fastest interface available. From a Mac perspective, the current interface of choice for speed is Thunderbolt. But to this point we haven’t seen much in the way of direct
Symantec Corp. has announced that Symantec NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 are now available worldwide designed to help businesses of all sizes seamlessly transform and modernize their outdated, complex, and resource-intensive backup strategy. Additionally, Symantec has also announced a partnership with NetApp to resell the new NetBackup Replication Director option, enabling customers to unify
OWC has offered the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 for a while now, but over time they’ve managed to update the unit with compelling features and now, with support for up the 16TB of storage via four Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 hard drives. The four-bay OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 is highlighted by its all metal body, quad
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