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QNAP Updates TurboNAS Storage Platform
Storage specialist QNAP Systems unveiled the next generation of its TurboNAS server lineup, along with its latest VioStor NVR video surveillance systems. In addition, the company debuted new NAS Firmware (3.6) and a new storage expansion solution for its business-class Turbo NAS. The new NAS series, aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and available…
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SSD Revenue Doubles in 2011 over 2010, No Letup in Sight
A convergence of factors that include shortages of spinning hard disk drives due to floods in Thailand, profound media-quality advancements and a sea change in the personal computer business is causing solid-state NAND flash drives to shoot up in demand for device manufacturers. As a result of all this market activity, worldwide solid-state storage industry…
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Dell Enters Dedupe Appliance Market with DR4000
Dell is announcing new capabilities and features within its Fluid Data architecture storage product lines at Dell Storage Forum in London, England. Included in the list of new and enhanced products is Dell’s first backup appliance featuring deduplication technology, marking the vendor’s entrance into appliance-based deduplication and going head-to-head against competitors like Data Domain and…
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Ingram Micro Intros Data Wipe Service for Retired Hardware
Virtualization, cloud computing, and data-center consolidation leave in their wake unwanted hardware—and an environmental and security headache for solution providers and their customers. To address these concerns, Ingram Micro today unveiled its IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Services for resale by channel partners in North America. Through a partnership with U.S. Micro, Ingram Micro’s ITAD Services…
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Iomega Breaks SMB Storage Price Barrier
Data storage space is like closet space, there never seems to be enough. Iomega is looking to bring enterprise-sized storage to the SMB sector with a family of low priced NAS units. The entry level StorCenter ix2 starts out with 1TByte of storage with an estimated street price of around $220, other models in the…
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OCZ Technology Buys Storage Software Provider SANRAD
High-performance solid-state storage device maker OCZ Technology added a key ingredient to its software lineup Jan. 9 in announcing the acquisition of privately held flash caching and virtualization software/hardware provider SANRAD. Terms of the deal were not revealed by OCZ. Mountain View, Calif.-based SANRAD, founded in 2000, has its research and development center in Tel…