Netgear has announced availability of its new ReadyNAS products that are spread across three series all running on a new OS. The new NAS also utilizes redesigned hardware and a sleek, modern GUI. Compared to previous models, one significant change that Netgear has implemented is that all of its new NAS units will run unified
EMC has announced Data Protection Advisor 6, an update on their software that enables organizations to easily gain visibility and insight into their backup infrastructures. As data needs grow and more companies expand existing storage and add virtual storage, EMC’s Data Protection Advisor 6 monitors, alerts, analyzes, optimzies, and reports on those infrastructures enabling users
LSI announced that its Nytro WarpDrive cards have been validated for use with NetApp Flash Accel software, making them amongst the first PCIe flash devices to have been qualified for Flash Accel use. Together with NetApp Flash Accel software, LSI’s Nytro WarpDrive family of cards speed application performance by converting server-based flash into data cache
Seagate announced that its third-generation of solid state hybrid drives (SSHD), drives with technology designed to take advantage of the performance of SSDs without sacrificing the capacity users expect from HDDs, will begin shipping. Seagate is currently the only brand offering SSHDs, though it is worth noting that Toshiba and Western Digital have them in
The consumer SSD market has for a long time been very much the wild west of technology expansionism. In the early days, everyone wanted in. Western Digital even dabbled in the space for a brief period, albeit with a controller that was more suited for USB than SSD. The former memory and overclocking companies immediately
CA Technologies has announced enhancements to its ARCserve r16.5 data protection solution that add replication and virtualization capabilities designed for small and medium businesses as well as service providers seeking to quickly build or add to their data protection portfolios. This release is intended to compliment enhancements announced in October 2012 to ARCserv’s non-disruptive bare
The Simpana platform is comprised of individually-licensed modules to Analyze, Replicate, Protect, Archive, and Search data across an enterprise and across devices and locations by leveraging a consolidated virtual ContentStore pool. The arrival of Simpana 10 brings more than 300 new features to reduce risk, administrative overhead, and support costs. According to CommVault, Simpana 10’s
Barracuda and Drobo have announced a joint endeavor to offer a Drobo 5N client for Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage platform. The Drobo 5N is a NAS appliance for small office environments and prosumer applications such as photography, video, and other types of digital content creation. The Copy client will allow 5N users to designate shared
Dell has announced the DR4100, an update to their backup and recovery appliance line that is based on the Fluid Data Architecture. The DR4100 is highlighted by support for deduplication and compression at rates of up to 15 to 1, to help customers tame data sprawl with more efficient storage. While the DR4100 can start
NetApp today announced the availability of its new all-flash EF540 array, intended for performance-driven application and data center deployments. The EF540, built on the SANtricity operating system, can provide more than 300,000 IOPS and sub-millisecond latency in a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture. The company has also released a preview architecture for its new FlashRay product
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