LaCie has announced that its popular desktop hard drive, the d2, now features USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectivity and new 4TB 7200rpm hard drives. The d2 boasts speeds up to 180MB/s, which is about twice as fast as FireWire 800 and almost four times faster than USB 2.0. This performance enhancement allows users to transfer
HP today introduced updates and additions across its Converged Storage portfolio to simplify and streamline the transition to a unified enterprise storage architecture for all deployment sizes. The refresh extends throughout HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage, StoreAll Storage, and StoreOnce Backup product offerings. The HP Converged Storage system is designed to overcome legacy storage limitations with a
HP’s 3PAR StoreServ Storage lineup has been enhanced with systems and functionality to better support midmarket organizations adopting virtualization and cloud computing. Today’s announcement includes details about HP’s new 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage systems as well as resiliency and quality-of-service updates to the HP 3PAR Operating System Software.
HP’s StoreOnce lineup has added new StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup systems for small and midsize businesses that offer up to two times faster native performance than their predecessors. Earlier this year, the company introduced HP StoreOnce Catalyst software for the enterprise StoreOnce 6000 series backup solution. Now, the entire line of StoreOnce Backup solutions
HP has today announced details about its new StoreAll Storage, a highly scalable platform for unstructured data with converged object and file storage services for up to 16 petabytes (PB) of data with billions of objects and files in a single name space. The platform includes HP StoreAll Express Query, an embedded metadata database technology
HP has announced a variety of new enterprise services as part of a suite of enhancements to the HP Converged Storage portfolio. These new services integrate with the latest system additions to HP Converged Storage, in order to protect and scale midmarket data storage.
HP Financial Services has announced a new Capacity on Demand program to finance storage scalability and simplify how HP Converged Storage infrastructure is purchased and delivered. For minimum transactions of $100K/ €75K, Capacity on Demand extends to baseline storage hardware and software; Burst Buffer hardware and software assets; installation services for baseline storage and Burst
WD has announced its comprehensive support for new Windows 8 storage features as well as an app for the new Windows user interface, making it easy to discover, enjoy, and backup digital media and files. The new WD app for Windows 8 automatically finds digital content on users’ WD direct attached storage solutions and then
NetApp has announced the North American availability of NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a storage solution that leverages AWS Direct Connect to link on-premise NetApp storage with Amazon’s cloud platform.
Toshiba has announced four new 7,200RPM MG Series HDDs in capacities up to 4TB. The new line of 3.5-inch drives includes self-encrypting models with both SATA and SAS interfaces. The MG Series doubles the maximum capacity of Toshiba’s previous business-critical hard drive family, and also offers an 18 percent increase in sustained transfer rates according
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