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HP Storage Control Module and Insight Control For vCenter Updated

HP has announced the newest version of HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter, version 7.1. Control Storage Module is a plug-in for VMware’s vCenter management console, enabling VMware administrators to quickly obtain context-aware information about the HP storage in their VMware environment directly from vCenter.

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DreamWorks Animation Data Center On-Site

While at SNW Fall we were given an opportunity to tour the DreamWorks Animation data center in Redwood City, California. The entertainment field is a massive consumer of storage, with the animation field specifically having a special set of technology needs as a movie or TV show winds through a typical multi-year development cycle. Storage

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Iomega StorCenter px2-300d and ix4-300d Network Storage Solutions Now Shipping Worldwide

Iomega has announced the worldwide availability of the latest line of products in their network storage solutions: the new Iomega StorCenter px2-300d Network Storage, a high performance, Intel Atom powered double-drive desktop network storage device with up to 6TB of storage, and the new Iomega StorCenter ix4-300d Network Storage, which is Iomega’s next-gen StorCenter ix

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CA Technologies Announces ARCserve Updates for Backup and Recovery of Cloud and Traditional Platforms

CA Technologies has announced enhancements to its ARCserve solutions to better extend data protection across IT environments with both virtual and physical systems, including systems on-premise, off premise, or in the cloud. ARCserve offers backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities via integrated solutions with a new licensing scheme.

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QLogic FlexSuite 2600 Series Adapters Now Available

QLogic has announced its next-generation line of FlexSuite 2600 Series adapters, which are now available through authorized QLogic channel partners. QLogic FlexSuite "dual-personality" adapters can easily fit into current installations as a 16GB Fibre Channel adapter and will provide end-user field upgradeability to a 10GBE-based converged network adapter (CNA) in the future.

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Mellanox SwitchX-2 Introduced, The World’s Fastest SDN Switch

Mellanox Technologies, provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has announced SwitchX-2, the next generation of their switch silicon optimized for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Mellanox’s new SwitchX-2 is equipped with advanced capabilities of remote configurable routing tables, lossless and congestion free networks, efficient control planes, and SDNoptimized software

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Infortrend EonNAS 1310 and 1510 Announced to Meet Data Storage Demands for SMBs

Data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, has added two new models to its EonNAS 1000 Series – the EonNAS 1310 and 1510, which feature 2U/8-bay and a 2U/12-bay rackmount form factors respectively. These new storage solutions help SMB users to optimize file sharing, IP SAN applications, data storage, and data backup and are specifically designed to

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IBM Acquires Butterfly Software Ltd

IBM has announced its acquisition of Butterfly Software Ltd. which will become a part of IBM’s Software Group. Financial terms were not disclosed to the public. Butterfly is a privately held data analysis and migration software company based out of Maidenhead, England. They provide innovative applications that help organizations discover, analyse, and automatically migrate data centre

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Toshiba Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive Announced

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) has announced the 500 GB Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive, their smallest portable hard drive yet, measuring in at only nine millimeters thick. This slim, compact drive comes in a brushed aluminum design, available in either black or silver. Additionally, its built-In USB 3.0 (backwards 2.0 compatible) interface significantly improves