Imation is announcing the release of its Nexsan Assureon 7 disk-based secure automated archive solution which consolidates storage tiers, secures data and reduces complexity in storage management for SMEs. Particularly, government, healthcare and financial organizations that deal with compliance for industry and government regulations are the target-market for this software which can automate storage policies
Barracuda Networks has launched Backup 5.0 featuring LiveBoot for VMware. LiveBoot allows administrators to boot a server live from Barracuda Backup’s deduplicated storage server if primary storage for their VMware environment fails. LiveBoot also serves as a platform to test and sandbox updates, upgrades, and other server changes.
Icy Dock has announced the MB994IPO-3SB, a dual-bay SATA/SAS mobile rack backplane with a slim optical disk drive (ODD) slot, for use in a single 5.25" device bay. Dual 4-pin power connectors support low-power SATA SSDs or more demanding 15000 RPM SAS hard drives.
The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid is new entry for OCZ in the growing caching storage segment. The main thrust of caching is to get SSD speeds over the span of a larger capacity hard drive. With the RevoDrive Hybrid, OCZ is attempting to accomplish this goal by delivering a single integrated solution of a 1TB hard
Over the summer we reviewed a pre-production version of the 480GB OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 SSD. Even though the hardware and firmware were not final builds, the RevoDrive 3 X2 was still incredibly impressive, given the speedy PCIe interface and four SandForce SF-2281 processors. We’ve finally been able to log enough time with the production
OCZ recently announced availability of the 1TB RevoDrive Hybrid, which marries a 1TB 2.5" hard drive with a 100GB OCZ SSD and caching software to deliver SSD like speeds across the larger storage volume. The hybrid idea of course isn’t new, Seagate’s Momentus XT has shipped over one million units and there are several client
LaCie released its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt series to Apple retailers today, meaning that speedy Thunderbolt port on recent Macintoshes are finally starting to be used for something other than connecting monitors. Available in 1TB and 2TB configurations, the aluminum enclosure with a glowing blue LED eye houses a pair of 2.5" drives striped as
When it comes to desktop-based high-performance storage, to get to the bleeding edge there are certain limits you have to work around. A single SATA SSD, no matter how fast it is, will be held back by the 6.0Gb/s bandwidth. To get around this, many opt for the PCIe interface, either by using a RAID
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