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Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom SAN Performance Probe Announced

The Virtual Instruments ProbeFC8-HD48 is the industry’s first 48-port, real-time 8G line rate monitoring solution for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks, which significantly improves the monitoring capabilities of SANs with improved efficiency and reduced cost. With 6 times the density of the original ProbeFC8-HD48 and using 75% less rack space, this probe will lower the

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

WD My Cloud Family of Personal Cloud Solutions Announced

WD has introduced its new My Cloud family of personal cloud solutions, a complete solution for consumers and enthusiasts to organize, centralize, and secure all their data from all of their computers and mobile devices. This is achieved by simply connecting a My Cloud personal cloud drive to the Internet, which then gives their device

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

How to Upgrade OWC SSD Firmware

OWC is prominent in the SSD business for their custom hardware and upgrade solutions for Apple products, and they have made a solid name for themselves in supporting their legacy products. As with other SSD manufacturers, OWC occasionally needs to release a firmware update to correct errors or drive even greater performance down the road.

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

Fusion-io APIs Contributed for Standardization

Fusion-io is making the first open source software contribution with its nonvolatile memory key-value interface to flash, NVMKV. MySQL databases MariaDB and Percona Server already support the Atomic Writes API. Enabling a processor to write multiple simultaneously independent storage sectors as a single storage transaction, Atomic Writes streamlines data writes to improve performance. Atomic Writes

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

WD Arkeia Fourth Generation Appliances Announced

WD is announcing its fourth generation Arkeia appliances which are backup and recovery solutions designed for SMBs that feature updated WD Arkeia 10.1 software. New in the v10.1 software is seed and feed technology that supports hybrid cloud backups so that organizations can move backups offsite via replication instead of shipping tapes. On top of that, the

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

Nimble Storage Announces InfoSight

Nimble Storage announced InfoSight which is a new set of services for Nimble’s storage arrays which utilize the cloud and deep data to streamline activities. The InfoSight data collection engine securely gathers data every five minutes, which comes to a total of 30 million sensor values per array daily. InfoSight analyzes that data so that

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

Aberdeen AberNAS N31L Review

The Aberdeen AberNAS N31L is among Aberdeen’s ultra-dense NAS storage arrays that are all designed to offer maximum capacity levels at more affordable prices than the upper echelon providers. The AberNAS is packed with features including capacity for up to 64TB of storage via 16 3.5″ bays. The 3U form factor NAS also features Intel

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

Synology RackStation RS3412xs Review

The Synology RackStation RS3412xs and RS3412RPxs 2U rack mount NAS units offer 10 3.5″ drive bays and Synology’s robust DiskStation Manager 4.1 (DSM). Synology offers several enterprise-class features, note the RP in the RS3412RPxs stands for redundant power supply, and Synology offers an optional 10GbE card to take advantage of top-line performance of 100,000+ IOPS

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

JetStor SAS 616iSD 10G iSCSI SAN Review

The SAS 616iSD 10G is part of an extensive line of block-level storage arrays offered by JetStor. The iSCSI 616iSD offers up to 48TB of storage via 16 3.5″ bays in a 3U enclosure. JetStor features dual redundant active/active RAID controllers and four 10GbE ports, two per controller. Each controller is powered by an Intel

Enterprise  ◇  Medium NAS

HGST Demonstrates 7-Platter Helium Hard Drive Platform

HGST, a Western Digital company, is demonstrating its new helium-based hard disk drive (HDD) platform at the WDC Investor Day event in Irvine, California. Sealed hard drives with helium in place of air will increase the storage density and durability of 3.5-inch hard drive storage while decreasing power consumption and audible noise. HGST’s pilot lines