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.

Diversified Agency Services (DAS) has launched Consolidated Data Services, a new venture that is an internal IT services provider for Omnicom Group’s more than 100 creative marketing communications agencies across 71 countries worldwide. DAS has created three data centers in Atlanta, Phoenix and London, deploying a homogenous HP Converged Infrastructure that includes compute servers, storage, networking,

Synology has released an updated version of the DiskStation DS413j, its four-bay NAS which serves up to 16TB of storage for a home or small office network. The DS413j now ships with DiskStation Manager 4.1, and customers can use Synology’s Cloud Station and ezCloud technology to extend access to stored data across the Internet, including

Western Digital has extended their line of portable hard drives, introducing My Passport Edge, a new line of 500GB drives in its My Passport family. My Passport Edge is designed with a USB 3.0 interface and a slim 2.5-inch hard drive that helps keep the physical footprint of My Passport Edge to a minimum.