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HP Announces IBRIX X9730 Storage and IBRIX OS v6.1 to Streamline High-Volume NAS Deployment

HP’s new IBRIX X9730 Storage solution is intended to serve organizations with NAS storage requirements that have grown too complex or too large to manage with current-generation NAS filers. The IBRIX X9730 scales to 1.68PB of capacity in a single system and 16PB in a single namespace to support long-term, high-volume information archival as well

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Buffalo Announces TeraStation 5000 and 7000 Network Storage Devices

Buffalo Technology has announced the new TeraStation 5000 series of business-class storage servers and a new enterprise-class TeraStation 7000 series. The 5000 series will launch with the two-drive TeraStation 5200 and the four-drive TeraStation 5400, both offering iSCSI, replication and failover support and SoleraTec Phoenix RSM, a video surveillance asset management solution. The 7000 series

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EMC VPLEX Deploys AccessAnywhere and RecoverPoint Support

EMC has announced enhancements to its VPLEX virtual storage and operating environment, including support for EMC RecoverPoint data protection and EMC AccessAnywhere’s cache coherency technology for third-site disaster recovery. VPLEX now integrates with VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) and VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).

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EMC Announces New Data Domain and Avamar Backup and Recovery Solutions

At EMC World 2012, EMC announced new Data Domain and Avamar systems and software for high-performance, scalable backup appliances that tightly integrate with each other, with backup software, and into heterogeneous enterprise application ecosystems. The arrival of data deduplication technology enabled today’s high-performance purpose-built backup appliances to address legacy issues of backup window times and

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SSD Performance Review – 270TB Written

We all know SSDs are fast, but we also know they’re fast for a finite period of time. SSDs wear out as they’re written to, some faster than others depending on NAND, how much or what type of data is written to the SSD and so on. The fear of SSD death, or poor performance