Synology has several NAS offerings for home, office, and even enterprise applications. All of their DiskStation NAS units are powered by Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.1 operating system, with 5.2 on the horizon. DSM offers lots of good, free apps to users, such as the recently reviewed Surveillance Station 7.0. Another free app that all users have

Today Druva Inc. announced the results of a global survey that examined data privacy in the enterprise. The survey specifically looked at protecting sensitive data, the challenges of ensuring data privacy, and views on protecting data privacy in the cloud. The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Druva.

Dot Hill announced its RealSure software built into it RealStor storage operating system used in Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN storage arrays. This new software is designed to address the performance demands of Big Data Analytics. It was also announced that the Dot Hill AssuredSAN Ultra48 is being integrated into the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2800.

Big Data comes up frequently in data management. Harnessing Big Data can lead businesses to all sorts of insights that could make them more efficient and more profitable. The only problem is that using Big Data can be quite the arduous undertaking when it comes to resource management and system administration. Google plans to tackle Big

Synology has several great, free apps for DiskStation and RackStation owners. What’s most talked about is that Synology devices offer ease of use, the ability to share and sync files across multiple platforms, and their reliability to protect your data. Synology also offers another comprehensive service that is incredibly powerful and equally valuable; Surveillance Station. Surveillance

Spectra Logic announced today a proof of concept integration of BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. This joint solution will provide seamless content management across sites, tiers and clouds. StorageGRID Webscale enables customers to utilize massively scalable object storage for media content while BlackPearl allows users to massive amounts of data forever for pennies per gigabyte.

Today Google made a series of updates to its Cloud Networking to continue to provide performance, reliability, and security for its customers. These updates include: General availability of Cloud DNS, an expansion of its load balancing solutions to 12 additional points of presence around the globe, a beta of Cloud Virtual Private Network (VPN), and

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced that it expanded its high-performance file storage portfolio with the DDN MEDIAScaler and DDN GRIDScaler 3.0. The former addition is the industry’s first file-based workflow solution to offer simultaneous, concurrent access to media content across hundreds of users all the while improving transcode, reducing hardware footprint, and integrating with the

Spectra Logic announced updates and enhancements to their BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway solution. These new enhancements and updates allow users to move their data seamlessly into deep tape storage. Users will easily be able to store massive amounts of data forever for pennies per gigabyte.