ATTO Technology and Facilis Technology Deliver High Performance Data ... - Broadcast Engineering

A global leader in advanced shared storage systems for post production and content creation, to provide high performance connectivity for their shared storage products. Incorporating ATTO's Celerity HBAs, Facilis TerraBlock Shared Storage and the Facilis Shared File System are able to achieve unprecedented performance, reliability and flexibility to help users increase productivity. This solution will be on display in the Facilis Stand (7.D05) at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 7 through September 11.

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Finding a Reliable Data Center Provider for your Organization - Blue MauMau

As every notable company needs to store and process large volumes of data, the need for high volume solutions is always there; however, as every company cannot afford to have an in-house high volume data storage solution, data centers are there to satiate the need. Unfortunately, owing to the increasing number of these data housing facilities, selecting a data center can be an ordeal in itself regardless of whether you are looking for data centers in Santa Clara or Quincy.

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Winchester Systems Releases 12th Generation COTS Rugged RAID Data Storage - U.S. Politics Today

Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced a major new generation of COTS rugged data storage, now in its 12th generation.The new COTS rugged RAID arrays are twice the speed of the prior models with throughput to 5,400 MB/sec. and IOPS to 742,000 and offer increased capacity to 432 TB. These COTS rugged units support both hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state disk drives (SSDs) for 8 Gb Fibre Channel and 6 Gb SAS hosts.

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Mellanox 40 Gigabit Ethernet Wins Gold for Big Data at 2012 Stevie Awards - Investor's Business Daily

A leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that PHAT-DATA40G, a high performance Hadoop appliance over a Mellanox end-to-end 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapter and switch solution, won Gold for Best New Hardware Product at the Stevie International Business Awards. PHAT-DATA40G is a joint solution by Mellanox, AMAX, STEC and Zettaset that delivers best-in-class performance and ease-of-use for Big Data users, delivering at least 40 percent performance enhancement, which is well above existing competitive solutions.

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InnoDisk releases CF-SATA with 50pin SATA interface replace solution for CF ... - Digitimes

InnoDisk, a worldwide leading manufacturer of industrial data storage solutions, announced the release of their Compact Flash Serial ATA (CF-SATA) module with high reliability and excellent data transfer speeds. An effective replace solution for CF cards, InnoDisk's CF-SATA, has the same mechanical design with Compact Flash card and complies with Serial ATA by extracting unusual pins from CF50 pin. Hence, Compact Flash card and CF-ATA can share with one CF50pin socket.

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IT Users Drill on Storage Solutions - Equities.com

Users of Information Technology (IT) in Douala have been equipped on the advantages of storage solutions for Visualisation and Cloud, as well as Oracle database 11g for improved administration and security.

The Socitech organised and facilitated seminar, which held at the Sawa Hotel recent, serves to encourage enterprises to better save, access and protect data and other information while integrating information solutions and oracle.

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LaCie Intros 2big, 4big Quadra with USB 3.0 - Tom's Hardware Guide

The LaCie 2big Quadra USB 3.0 and LaCie 4big Quadra USB 3.0 are ideal storage solutions for intensive content creation, secure backup, or massive desktop storage," the company said. "With speeds twice as fast as Firewire 800 these products help professionals get their work done faster. Video editors can play back multiple HD video streams at the same time with Final Cut Pro X or Premiere. Additionally, photographers can browse large photo libraries and edit in Apeture or Lightroom 4 without delay."

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Sequoia, Accel fund Nimble Storage - Upstart (blog)

Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners led a $40.7 million funding round for Nimble storage, which creates flash-based data storage solutions for small and mid-size businesses.Nimble Storage has delivered groundbreaking innovations and fundamentally reinvented the modern storage system,” said Jim Goetz, general partner, Sequoia Capital. “The company has emerged to become a dominant force in data storage, and its market traction far outpaces other storage entrants of the past few years.

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IT Users Acquire Storage Solutions - AllAfrica.com

Users of Information Technology (IT) in Douala have been edified on the advantages of storage solutions for Visualisation and Cloud computing, as well as Oracle "database 11g" for improved administration and security.A seminar organised and facilitated by SOCITECH held at the Sawa Hotel in Douala recently. It aimed at encouraging enterprises to better save, access and protect data as well as other information while integrating information solutions and Oracle software.

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Software-Defined Storage for Software-Defined Data Centers - DABCC.com

VMware is clearly promoting this new “software-centric” concept and made “software-defined data centers” not only their new mantra but their vision statement for the future. The industry conversation on this topic is getting louder.

Since its formation, DataCore Software has likewise embraced the need for “software-defined storage” as an essential element to software-defined data centers. Virtual storage infrastructures are the foundation for scalable, elastic and efficient cloud computing. While the primary attention is focused on the computing and networking elements, the major challenge continues to be storage. To make the software-defined data center a reality, we need to overcome the hardware-defined mindset that has stalled the redefinition of storage from being software driven.

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Data transformation: why everyone wants to talk about it - Cloud Pro

An EMC conference has offered an opportunity to discuss what's really meant by a transformation agenda.Its Transform:IT +Business+Yourself event is an example of this development. President and CIO of EMC information infrastructure and cloud Howard Elias explains that data access methods are changing: “challenge of data storage management” is the number one pain point of concern his customers voice on a repeated basis.

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Amplidata: New CEO, New $6 Million Funding Round - CRN

AmpliData which develops storage technology to handle massive amounts of data, last year introduced, AmpliStor, which has the potential to store billions of data objects on hundreds of petabytes of capacity.

Amplidata focuses on making sure data is available, Wall said. "It's an active archive product for big data with extreme data protection capabilities, up to 15 nines of protection for half the price of legacy systems," he said.

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HGST Helium-Filled Hard Disk Drive Platform Announced - Benchmark Reviews

GST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a new helium-filled hard disk drive (HDD) platform, which is at the forefront of advanced technology for increasing capacity and significantly reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise and cloud customers.

With products expected in 2013, the new platform enables HGST to go beyond its award-winning five-platter design, providing a path for higher capacity storage and lower customer TCO for years to come. With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.

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AMD Unleashes First SeaMicro Micro-Server ... Running Intel - PC Magazine

Advanced Micro Devices this week introduced its first SeaMicro server combining processing power and add-on storage capacity that the company said makes it possible to install thousands of cores plus five petabytes of storage in a single data center server rack.

The big advantage for the data center that AMD is pitching with its new product is the addition of significant storage capacity to server racks courtesy of the company's new Freedom Fabric Storage technology.

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Amazon's Glacier Cloud Service Puts Data in the Storage Deep Freeze - NetworkComputing.com

Glacier provides storage as a service in a public cloud for the long-term preservation of data--the vast majority of which should never need to be retrieved. AWS' use of powerful 256-bit encryption protects the confidentiality of the data. It's the same technology used in its S3 offering, and indicates that Amazon is using one of the data protection techniques that can be used with object storage.

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Improved Probe for Data Storage Developed - Overclockers Club

As more and more data is created, more and more data storage is required. This makes higher data densities particularly useful, but these are hard to obtain, depending on the technology being used. One possible technology for higher data densities is probe storage devices which use nanoscale probes to write bits of data onto a material. A problem with this technology is that the probes can fail due to mechanical wear, but researchers, led by Intel, have found a way to address this, as published in the American Institute of Physics Applied Physics Letters.

Though it is hard to say when this tehnology may come to market, the involvement of Intel definitely shows a commercial interest. Also the potential for data densities exceeding 1 Tb per square inch (yes, one terabit per square inch) is likely a motivating factor for it being used in a consumer product.

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Stocks to Watch: OCZ Technology, VeriFone Systems, Men's Wearhouse - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Data-storage firm OCZ Technology cut its fiscal second-quarter revenue forecast, pointing to constraints in the supply of NAND flash memory, which is used in solid-state drives. Shares tumbled 24% to $4.05 premarket.

VeriFone’s fiscal third-quarter income rose 43% as the electronic-payments company’s revenue strengthened, led by its services business. Still, shares dropped 11% to $31.50 premarket after the company predicted weak fourth-quarter revenue.

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StrongBox From Crossroads Systems Wins HPA Engineering Excellence Award - Broadcast Newsroom

A global provider of data protection and storage solutions, today announced that its StrongBox® LTFS NAS archive solution was named a winner of the 2012 HPA Engineering Excellence Award.

The highly coveted honor is an integral part of the HPA Awards, which have become the standard by which creative and technical excellence in the art, science and craft of post production is measured. Winners were selected from a large and varied field of technology offerings, including some of the largest technology companies in the industry. StrongBox is an enterprise-level storage solution that leverages Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology, allowing tape storage to walk and talk like expensive disk-based storage.

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Software-Defined Storage for Software-Defined Data Centers - DABCC.com

VMware is clearly promoting this new “software-centric” concept and made “software-defined data centers” not only their new mantra but their vision statement for the future. The industry conversation on this topic is getting louder.

Since its formation, DataCore has likewise embraced the need for “software-defined storage” as an essential element to software-defined data centers. Virtual storage infrastructures are the foundation for scalable, elastic and efficient cloud computing. While the primary attention is focused on the computing and networking elements, the major challenge continues to be storage. To make the software-defined data center a reality, we need to overcome the hardware-defined mindset that has stalled the redefinition of storage from being software driven.

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Storage solutions for leisure centres. Get the products you need! - Action Storage (blog)

Here at Action Storage we pride ourselves on giving customers in any industry access to the storage solutions that will suit their precise needs, and the leisure sector is no exception. We’ve got everything you could need to ensure your changing rooms, poolside areas, spas and reception desks have got the right kind of storage, and with everything being of top quality yet great value for money you’ll never need to go anywhere else to get the products to suit. We’ll be on-hand to discuss your needs and can ensure you’re left with products that perform, with our extensive range ensuring you’ll have just what you’re looking for.

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Storage, NetApp's 'Start Right-Keep it Simple-Grow Smart' strategy - IT News Africa

NetApp is in the Data Storage Management business for that exact reason – to assist companies to implement a “Start Right- Keep it Simple- Grow Smart” data storage solution with their unique products and services.

While NetApp is a global company, a major portion of the solution deployments internationally is channel-driven, working with distribution partners across the globe, enabling partners to deploy the right solution for customers who look for Smart Data Storage Consolidation and management capabilities” said Abraham Parel, CEO of Virtual Works, the NetApp distributor for East Africa, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

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NetApp Profit Slumps; Stock Up On Upbeat Outlook - NASDAQ

Data storage solutions provider NetApp Inc. (NTAP), said Wednesday its profit for the first quarter sharply declined from last year, as seasonal weakness and economic uncertainties impacted sales and margins. Nonetheless, NetApps's earnings for the quarter easily topped Wall Street estimates, while revenues missed expectations.

Going forward, NetApp provided earnings and revenue guidance for the second quarter, which is indicated to top Street estimates. NetApp shares gained nearly 6.0 percent in after-hours trade on the Nasdaq, following the news.

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D-Link Launches New 4-Bay Cloud Storage Solution for Home and Small ... - Sacramento

D-Link today announced its newest installment to its high-performance ShareCenter storage solutions – the 4-Bay Cloud Storage 4000 (DNS-345) – is now available. Offering superior performance with a fast CPU to simultaneously support multiple user streams, more memory to boost performance, four drives for up to 16TB of storage, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for high speed data transfer and failover, the Cloud Storage 4000 is a robust storage, back-up and recovery solution. When combined with D-Link Cloud Cameras, the Cloud Storage 4000 also enables a full-featured network video recorder (NVR) which supports real-time monitoring, recording and playback of surveillance video.

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Nimble Offers Scale-to-Fit Storage Solutions - eWeek

Nimble Storage officials are offering hybrid scale-out storage solutions that are flexible and affordable, necessary requirements for enterprises that are adopting virtualization in the data center and trying to get their arms around big data.

Other storage vendors are offering their own scale-to-fit solutions, but officials with Nimble said their strategy lets businesses more finely scale up their storage infrastructures as their needs dictate, whether those demands are around capacity, performance or both, and at low incremental costs. Nimble is doing this through new scale-out storage arrays, new storage expansion shelves and an upgraded operating system that were unveiled Aug.

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Data Storage Drives Hosted Data Protection and Storage Solutions in ... - The Complete Managed Services Resource

Data Storage Corporation recently unveiled that it has helped educational institutions and school districts revamp their information technology infrastructure by helping them enhance their data management capabilities. The company worked with these institutions through the summer break before the students get back. Data Storage Corporation is one of the premier providers of cloud storage and cloud computing services, data protection, and business continuity solutions.

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NetApp Federal's Mark Weber on managing big data - FederalNewsRadio.com

Mark Weber is senior vice president and general manager of NetApp U.S. Public Sector. He is responsible for managing and developing government business at the federal, state, and local levels and oversees all aspects of the public sector subsidiary, including sales, engineering, business development, finance, operations, and marketing. Mark has extensive experience in federal technology sales and engineering.Prior to joining NetApp, Mark worked at Sun Microsystems for 13 years, serving in a variety of positions, including regional executive director for federal, state, and local government; regional sales director for commercial operations; and financial district sales manager.

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SafeNet launches encrypted data storage solution - SC Magazine UK

SafeNet has announced the launch of StorageSecure, a network attached storage solution that encrypts data granularly over the network.According to the company, StorageSecure offers users the benefits of improved governance and data security for data which is at rest and also segregates data stored in shared NAS environments to ensure that each user's data is effectively isolated.The solution also integrates with SafeNet's Enterprise Key Management solution, KeySecure, which enables security teams to centrally and uniformly manage cryptographic keys across a variety of encryption platforms.

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Dutch get serious about data center efficiency - DatacenterDynamics

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM), fuel cells and generators that will be used for more than just back up are some of the initial areas being investigated for development into a pilot project.

“Every data center has a generator for backup, by why not run the generators for a certain amount of time, or feed back some energy from the generators back to the grid?” Wiersma said.

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SanDisk unveils ReadyCache SSD caching offering to improve PC performance - CTR

SanDisk Corp,provider of flash memory storage solutions, announced Tuesday a SSD caching solution that lets consumers improve their desktop computer’s performance. The SanDisk ReadyCache solution can boost a desktop computer’s boot, shutdown and application launch times, allowing consumers to enjoy a more responsive computing experience, while utilizing their existing hard drive’s storage.

The SanDisk ReadyCache product is a performance enhancing caching solution that combines a 32 gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch SSD that resides alongside a desktop computer’s hard drive with ExpressCache software by Condusiv Technologies.

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Hitachi increases focus on big data, 'social innovation' - Reseller News

Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, Hitachi, Ltd., he said.Big data is a big new focus for Hitachi, said Yoshida. "It's more than just storage. It's also the data management of that [and] the convergence of server, network and storage." Yoshida has detected much interest from customers, he said. "Everybody intuitively feels that there is so much information there that they are not harnessing and getting value from."

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Get organised with storage solutions that perform - Action Storage (blog)

Here at Action Storage we want to help ensure you get organised as easily as you can, and our fantastic range of storage solutions will ensure you’re able to do just that. We pride ourselves on offering all the products you could need to make the most of your environment, so if you want to enhance your workplace in the best way possible make sure to take a look around and you’ll soon have a functional, productive and wholly organised workplace with storage solutions that can perform on every level.

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NetApp Simplifies Storage and Data Management With Support for Windows ... - Equities.com

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced support for Windows Server 2012 with storage solutions for server and desktop virtualization, storage and availability, Web and application platform development, and private cloud deployment. For organizations of any size and in any industry, this close collaboration simplifies and accelerates how storage is pooled, provisioned, accessed, and managed in Windows environments....NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

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Winchester Systems Releases New White Paper: "FlashNAS Unified Storage ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today released a new white paper titled, "FlashNAS Unified Storage - Affordable Feature-Rich NAS."

The white paper explains in great detail how their FlashNAS Unified Storage products supports multiple storage protocols simultaneously and seamlessly so that all popular servers can share a single large pool of NAS storage for any size storage requirement including "Big Data" applications. FlashNAS Unified Storage specifically supports CIFS Windows plus NFS Linux and UNIX data partitions with proper permission mapping and correctly authenticated access controls.

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