Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has announced the Canvio Personal Cloud, its entry into the market cloud-enabled home storage devices. The Canvio Personal Cloud will be available with either 2TB or 3TB of internal storage plus a USB port for expansion, and allows users to access and stream files outside the home across the internet.
Synology America has announced the public release of its DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1 operating system. In continuation with its previous iterations, DSM 4.1 adds new tools to bring additional value to both existing and new customers.
The new Acer Veriton N Series will provide an entry into the thin client market for Acer, with three product lines for a range of applications. In partnership with Devon IT, Acer’s Veriton N thin clients leverage the Echo Thin Client Management software and either DeTOS 7.1, Windows Embedded Standard 7, or Windows 8/Windows 7.
IBM has announced the zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server, which offers over 100 configurable cores, with 25% more performance per core and 50% more total capacity than its predecessor. IBM has enhanced the zEC12 to demonstrate the performance of mainframe technology across applications like hybrid cloud infrastructure, high-volume transaction processing, and analytics.
Mellanox has announced the availability of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) drivers for its end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40GbE solutions over VMware ESXi 5.1, delivering a sustainable bandwidth rate of up to 48Gb/s of bandwidth to storage per VM and less than 2us for VM-to-VM interconnect latency. Mellanox has also shown new tests that indicate
WD has released an update to their popular My Book Duo line of external hard drives, this time instead of going for capacity, they’re going for performance with a pair of 1TB WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM hard drives. The My Book VelociRaptor Duo is designed for creative professionals who want local access to SSD-type performance,
HP announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 to assist clients in converting existing virtualization deployments into private and hybrid cloud environments. HP also now offers a PCI Compliance Security Solution Stack for virtual and cloud environments that meets all security-based PCI DSS controls.
Symantec has announced new solutions and integrations with VMware across its product portfolio as Symantec and VMware celebrate the milestone of more than 100 integrations between the two companies’ products. The newly announced integrations focus on improving visibility and control of virtual applications, reducing the performance impact of backup and recovery, achieving security and compliance
Synology has announced the launch of its first new 2013 DiskStation NAS devices, the DS213 and DS213+. Both models offer two drive bays and are intended for SOHO and SMB use. The DS213 and the 213+ are available immediately and are priced near $300 and $370, respectively.
At VMworld 2012 this week, StorageReview was part of a private briefing by EMC that showed off Project X and the updated v1.5 of VFCache. Project X is the code name for the first output of the XtremIO acquisition, which pairs two 1U Intel-based storage nodes with a 2U flash-storage enclosure. The 4U arrays are
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