Western Digital has announced their next generation WD My Passport portable hard drive that’s built around a single 2.5" hard drive with capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB. The 2TB capacity features a 15mm four platter hard drive that makes a new high-water mark for capacity in drive of that size. The enclosures have also
Icy Dock has unveiled the MB994SP-4SB-1, a full metal quad bay 2.5" SATA 6Gbps backplane for use in a single 5.25" device bay. The previous model (MB082SP) included SAS, whereas its successor uses a SATA-only 6Gbps interface and adds a fan power switch to control as needed.
Symantec Corp. has announced that Symantec NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 are now available worldwide designed to help businesses of all sizes seamlessly transform and modernize their outdated, complex, and resource-intensive backup strategy. Additionally, Symantec has also announced a partnership with NetApp to resell the new NetBackup Replication Director option, enabling customers to unify
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Lenovo and SugarSync have announced Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync, the first Cloud storage service integrated as an out-of-box experience broadly on Lenovo’s PCs and tablets. Lenovo’s new Cloud Storage service not only works with their own products, but also with Internet-based products from other manufacturers across a large variety of devices, such as laptops,
Marvell has announced the mass deployment of the Marvell 88SS9187 SATA controller equipped with high-performance embedded processor technology. The new controller features a 6Gb/s SATA Revision 3.1 compliant host interface, which is optimized the SSD sector and offers many unique benefits to the consumer, mobile, and enterprise markets. A large number of high-profile SSD manufacturers
Intel announced that an optical variant of their current Thunderbolt technology is in the works, which will allow greater cable distances than the current six-meter limit from the copper-version. Intel stated that these new cables would be backwards compatible, meaning the electronics for the transmitting and receiving end would be built into the cable and
Nirvanix announced that the National Geographic Society has moved its backup and archival of large unstructured multi-media files to the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network to take advantage of the economic and on-demand agility benefits that the cloud brings. With the growth of their unstructured content files, the National Geographic Society needed an alternative to the
OCZ Technology has announced that Colfax International will deploy Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs into their new lines of enterprise servers. Colfax recently updated many of their platforms to be compatible with Intel’s latest dual socket Sandy Bridge-EP platform, which enables up to 80 lanes of Gen 3 PCIe throughput, effectively letting the Z-Drive R4 operate at its
Nexsan has announced the formation of a Technology Alliance Partnership with Veeam Software, an innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery, and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments. Nexsan and Veeam plan to deliver storage, backup, and replication solutions to enable highly scalable, advanced data protection optimized for hypervisor-independent cloud computing.
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