Acronis has announced the acquisition of GroupLogic, a software company specializing in secure enterprise file access, sharing, and syncing. GroupLogic’s personnel and IP adds to Acronis’ growing portfolio around data availability and accessibility by emphasizing protection against threats from enterprise mobility.

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

Riverbed Technology has introduced a new model in its Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliance line to handle larger backup data workloads in addition to a next generation operating system for all Whitewater appliance models. The Whitewater 3010 appliance has four times the local storage capacity of its predecessors to address larger scale enterprise requirements. Riverbed

HP has announced additions and enhancements to its security solutions portfolio oriented towards proactive assessment, optimization, and management of security environments. According to research conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of HP, nearly two-thirds of business and technology executives are concerned about security requirements for cloud services as well as how to secure and consume

Acer America announced the upcoming availability of new F2 rack and tower servers for SMB and enterprise, which are set for release in the U.S. later this month. The Acer F2 server family includes three new rackmounts and three towers with Intel Xeon E5 or Intel Xeon E3 processors across a range of price and

QNAP Systems has released its latest business-class TS-x69L series Turbo NAS available in 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8-drive models. The TS-x69L series is powered by a high performance dual-core Intel Atom processor and is equipped with 1GB DDR3 RAM, which can be upgraded to 3GB. Additionally, it supports SATA 2.5", 3.5" HDD and SSD

Western Digital has taken the wraps off a new hybrid hard drive platform leveraging a 2.5" 5mm design (nearly half as thick as a standard 2.5" drive), making it the smallest hybrid to date. While the size is interesting, WD is making other major design changes from what we’re seeing out of Seagate, the only

StarWind Software Inc, provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, has announced the release of the new StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS V6 and VMware Backup Plug-in Release Candidate. This update is improved by a three-node High Availability (HA) architecture, which is completely eliminates single point of failure and ensures business continuity with 99.99%

Other World Computing has introduced the Mercury AccelsiorM half-height PCIe controller card for 50mm mSATA SSDs. The AccelsiorM is ACHI-compliant and can serve as a boot drive for both Windows and Mac systems. OWC has designed the AccelsiorM card to accelerate media production, gaming, and other I/O-intensive applications at a consumer price point.