Hitachi has announced the new Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), a solution for small and medium enterprises to virtualize block, file, and object storage, including multivendor storage. According to Hitachi, the HUS VM requires 40% less power to operate and cool than comparably configured solutions from other vendors such as the EMC VMAX 10K.
Toshiba has announced the MQ01ABDH series of hybrid hard drives, bringing them in line now with Seagate who has been shipping hybrids for over two years and WD who recently threw their hat into the hybrid ring as well. Toshiba’s offering is based around the MQ01AB 2.5" hard drive platform which features dual 500GB platters,
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
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
VeloBit has announced the availability of its HyperCache for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Hyper-V. HyperCache transparently caches data on SSDs to improve performance without configuration changes to infrastructure or applications. According to VeloBit, HyperCache can increase Microsoft SQL Server transactions-per-second by 700% while reducing average response by more than 80%.
Autonomy, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), has announced the availability of HP Application Information Optimizer 7.0, an enterprise solution that improves application performance for businesses, meets critical compliance obligations, and can reduce data storage by up to 48 percent.
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
Dell has announced it has begun shipping its first EqualLogic PS-M4110 storage blade arrays, a single PowerEdge M1000e chassis solution that consolidates the blade arrays with 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge blade servers and Dell Force10 and PowerConnect network switches in one device. EqualLogic solutions are designed for applications like turnkey remote office deployments which
AC&NC has introduced the new JetStor SAS 716U and 724U RAID systems, designed to integrate storage in mixed NAS and IP SAN environments. Both platforms are intended for small and medium businesses looking to leverage unified storage technology with features including compression, deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning, and unified authentication.
Synology today announced the launch of an updated DS413 with hardware enhancements and DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1. The DS413 is a 4-bay network attached storage (NAS) device that features hot-swappable storage, hardware assisted 256-bit AES encryption, and 1GB DDR3 memory, double the amount of the previous version.
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