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.
PMC today announced upcoming availability of its new Adaptec Series 7, a family of SAS and SATA RAID adapters which includes the market’s first 16- and 24-port PCIe 3.0 adapters. The Adaptec Series 7 offers up to 16-ports in a low-profile MD2 form factor and up to 24-ports in a full-height half-length form factor, both
Acronis, provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions, has announced its latest release of Acronis Backup & Recovery: a unified platform from which organizations can centrally manage data protection and disaster recovery tasks for physical, virtual and cloud environments from a single management console, and move data between environments quickly and easily. It also
QLogic has announced the Mt. Rainier project, code name for their upcoming server-side caching solution which is designed for enterprise application acceleration. The solution combines QLogic’s SAN HBA technology with server-based flash storage and software to deliver OS-independent caching in a variety of configurations. Mt. Rainier centers around the QLogic PCIe HBA base adapter card
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,
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