Imation Aquires Nexsan with Hopes to Improve Storage &Security Solutions

Storage solution company Nexsan has been acquired by the Imation Corporation, a storage and data security company with the goal of improving Imation's operating margins for data storage and security solutions.With the acquisition of Nexsan, Imation will be able to utilize its previously mentioned solution platforms to improve what the company can offer its consumer base.The combination of Nexsan’s products, technologies and talented teams with Imation’s global reach and infrastructure will be an excellent accelerator for our growth strategy in storage solutions.According to a conjoined statement from the two companies they have noticed that small businesses and distributed enterprises or SME storage companies are having trouble meeting consumer needs but with this acquisition Nexsan and Imation will be able to combine their services and tools to improve data storage and management issues that these businesses currently face.

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SoftNAS Offers Cloud Storage Management

Storage start up SoftNAS has released a new beta version of its virtual appliance for managing an organization's storage capacity. The software which is also named SoftNAS runs within cloud environments such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or on a customer's existing virtual servers including VMware ESXi vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V and converts storage space into a network attached storage or NAS like environment.The company offers a free Essentials version that's limited to a maximum storage capacity of one terabyte. A paid edition is $995/terabyte per year or $100/terabyte per month.SoftNAS aggregates disks to create a chunk of storage space which function like volumes or file systems. The program offers deduplicating and other features intended to increase storage capacity and system speed. A snapshot capability takes copies of changed data blocks as new data is saved. It also captures snapshots of specified volumes and file systems at scheduled intervals.

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X-IO Delivers Big Storage Solution for Big Data, Offering 1 Petabyte of Capacity and 1 Million IOPS

Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies today announced ISE Station XL, the newest member of its ISE Station X family of data storage solutions. Available now the second generation ISE Station XL is a preconfigured storage solution that offers 1 petabyte (1024 terabytes) of capacity and delivers over 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a dense, energy-efficient package. ISE Station XL accelerates enterprise applications and provides unmatched price/performance all with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry.

Designed for data center operators and cloud-based service providers who need both high performance and high capacity, ISE Station XL provides built-in support for major virtualization engines from Citrix, VMware and Microsoft, removing SAN controller bottlenecks and complexity from large-scale virtualization architectures. ISE Station XL consumes only 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.

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Sterling Data Storage Launches Three Cloud Backup Services

Cloud storage and backup solutions provider Sterling Data Storage announced it has launched three cloud backup services in an effort to increase adoption rates and provide an affordable cloud backup solution. Data backup and recovery are essential value-added services for web hosting companies to provide to customers as it ensures that their data will remain secure and in compliance with ABA standards, HIPAA and SOX regulations.Partnering with providers of data backup services can give web hosts a considerable edge over their competition.In November web hosting provider HostPapa begin offering backup and disaster recovery through the Vembu StoreGrid solution while Peak 10 enhanced its recovery cloud service to its scope, processes and technology in September.The new Sterling Data Storage solutions offer three versions of its cloud backup service for businesses to provide a hosted remote storage solution.This will help businesses automatically and reliably manage data backup, data recovery and business continuity according to the press release.

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Recover Lost Photos From Digital Camera

Choosing data recovery software is the first step for recovering photos and it is directly related to success rate of data recovery. Data recovery software is of different qualities on the internet but generally we should consider whether the price is reasonable and whether it is reliable or not which will cause certain influence. The worst situation is that some software package contains junk plug-in or viruses. All the problems should be considered at the same time. Then how to choose reliable data recovery software to facilitate photo recovery? I’ll recommend the free data recovery software MiniTool Power Data Recovery that I quite familiar with. It has 5 data recovery modules and Digital Media Recovery is earmarked for recovering lost digital files including photos. Digital media recovery form flash drive, MP3, digital camera, memory card can be realized easily and in the recovery process, preview function is provided. Just use it to recover lost photos.

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HP Launches Data Storage Solutions

Hewlett Packard this week launched three storage solutions with a common architecture across storage segments and categories so that businesses can simplify their tangled, divergent, complex and in efficient data systems. The new solutions are designed to replace other storage vendors that are simply not equipped to help organizations respond to new workloads.The StoreServ 7000 solutions which halve a company’s storage capacity requirements and double its virtual machines reducing the time to manage storage by 90 percent. The scalable StoreAll Storage which provides a simplified platform for big data retention and cloud storage and the StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup which performs backup operations up to three times faster than similar systems are equipped with Tier 1 enterprise storage features for virtualized and big data retention environments and are mid priced at approximately P1.6 million for a 10-terabyte configuration.

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Agilent Technologies Introduces Secure Central Data Storage and Operations Management Solution

Agilent Technologies has introduced OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications, an out of the box solution for smaller laboratories that provides secure central storage of the data produced by Agilent’s OpenLAB chromatography data systems. The software is also designed to streamline the management of laboratory operations, assets and regulatory compliance. Other commercially available solutions are designed for larger laboratories and involve a combination of enterprise level electronic laboratory notebooks, laboratory information management systems and scientific data management systems. OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications is focused on the essential tasks that make it easy for smaller laboratories to install and do their work. Smaller chromatography labs want to adopt a networked solution that's simple to deploy with minimal ongoing IT support. Because OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications is designed to work without customization, labs can expect to be up and running in only two days. Thats up to ten times faster than other solutions.

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