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Latest News

  • Iomega throws more terabytes at NAS device

    Iomega has extended its NAS family with a brand new storage device that will allow SMBs and remote offices to quickly and easily configure up to 4TB of networked storage.Like the 2TB ix2 which Iomega announced in October, the Iomega StorCenter Pro…
    06 February 2009
    Tags: Smbs • Active Directory • Automatic • Networked • Status • Configure

  • Iomega tempts SMBs with low-end storage

    This software provides centralised storage and on-board security.Iomega says that with just four mouse clicks, users can configure up to two terabytes of storage.One of the challenges with this product, has been to address both the consumer and…
    17 October 2008
    Tags: Acquired • Small Businesses • Small Business • Markets • Sata • Mouse

  • HP taps virtualisation with new products

    All the servers will have read/write access to all the storage, so an administrator can create pools of storage resources that can be mapped more easily to where they need to be," Potter said.The system comes with 4.8 terabytes of storage…
    03 September 2008
    Tags: Hypervisor • James Niccolai • Watts • Consulting • Hewlett Packard • Consolidating

  • Intel targets small biz storage

    The devices can accommodate as many as four drives, so they could be configured with several terabytes of storage, Intel's Bobroff said. That's a step up from the XScale chip in the company's first low-end NAS (network-attached storage) product…
    07 November 2007
    Tags: Platforms • Small Businesses • Stephen Lawson • Customise • Nas • Emc

  • Texas goes for RAM-cached flash disk

    These can be built up into SSD arrays costing much less than a similar capacity RamSan and, at ratings of thousands of IOPS, strongly outperforming hard drives with their several hundred IOPS.TMS has introduced its RamSan-500 with one or two…
    17 September 2007
    Tags: Flash Memory • Cache • Hard Drive • Chris Mellor • Solid State • Accelerate

  • PowerFile launches Blu-ray-based archiving

    IT has recently announced a 50 percent year-on-year growth in UDO Archive Appliance salesPowerFile positions its A3 product as being suited for mixed Windows, Unix and LInux environments needing volume management for tens or hundreds of terabytes…
    29 August 2007
    Tags: Cache • Hard Drive • Chris Mellor • Event • Archiving • Blu Ray

Latest Features

  • More interesting Storage Expo suppliers

    Veritas, Legato, etc, backup products can backup to a network-attached storage (NAS) box with CIFS/BFS just as easily to a VTL with traditional backup protocol.Platz and DD are on a roll: sales are growing strongly; the product has a great…
    23 October 2007
    Tags: Hard Drives • Sme • Germany • Emea • Duplication • Snapshot

  • De-duplication policies

    The 20GB of disk space needed for the raw data could be used to hold 2 days worth of de-duped backup data.The DXi7500 can have so much disk storage, from 24 to 240 terabytes, that it can do post-process de-duping without significantly affecting…
    17 August 2007
    Tags: Chris Mellor • Datacentres • Duplication • Suppliers • Raw • Compression

  • FalconStor rules the virtual tape market

    David Donatelli, EMC's EVP for storage product operations, said, "We're expanding the industry's broadest portfolio of backup and recovery solutions even more with new cost-effective, high-end disk library systems and new versions of our leading…
    21 May 2007
    Tags: Microsoft Windows • Continuous • Adoption • Replication • Storage Systems • Duplication

  • Battle royal

    With tens of terabytes to store, even hundreds, such media is simply out of the question. Suppliers of tape libraries, clustered NAS disk file systems and even holographic storage are positioning themselves as having the best storage product for…
    18 April 2007
    Tags: Movies • Tier • Storagetek • Motion • Cartridges • High Definition

  • No standard storage arrays for Google

    Bigtable is used for a variety of demanding workloads, which range from throughput-oriented batch-processing jobs to latency-sensitive serving of data to end users.It is implemented in clusters which span a wide range of configurations, from a…
    23 February 2007
    Tags: Jobs • Cluster • Block • Index • Clusters • Data Storage

  • Sun thumps Thumper drum

    Michael Keller, a university librarian from Stanford University, said that a Honeycomb project si underway that will involve hundreds of terabytes of storage.The 6920 was not mentioned.More on ThumperSchwartz said that the Sun Fire X4500 Thumper…
    07 February 2007
    Tags: Library • Hybrid • Cluster • Gateway • Storagetek • David
 

How-Tos

  • 5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now

    But online backup may not be appropriate if your data measures into the tens of gigabytes, or even terabytes (yes, snap-happy digital photographers and devoted music gurus, I'm looking at you).Content creators with high-capacity needs may prefer…
    27 August 2009
    Tags: Hard Drive • Hard Drives • Utility • Backups • Plug • Capacities

  • Case Study: Unified storage sorts out a Surrey hospital file problem

    Given the nature of the data being stored such as X-rays, reports and patient records, the new PACS would require a lot of storage capacity starting at over 20 terabytes. ONStor, Brocade and Sun provided Royal Surrey County Hospital with the means…
    23 May 2007
    Tags: Consolidated • Brocade • Storagetek • Clustered • Scalability • Data Storage

  • Case Study: A city in Kansas does tapeless backup

    The City also operates critical public safety dispatch servers for Johnson County, as well as the emergency operations center servers for the Mid-America Regional Council, the regional planning organization for Greater Kansas City.Overland Park's…
    09 May 2007
    Tags: City • Backups • Restore • Libraries • Agent • Veritas

  • Case Study: Weta's super storage system

    NetApp and StorageTek in phase oneTo store hundreds of hours of digital film, Labrie went with Network Appliance F840 network-attached storage (NAS) boxes, each with 2.7 terabytes of capacity, instead of buying a giant drive array system from EMC…
    04 October 2006
    Tags: Movie • Charged • Offline • Commodity • Facility • Cartridges

  • Case Study: Imagine a backup taking five days?

    The University of Naples installed an Overland Storage Reo 4000 disk-based back-up and recovery appliance in the Montesantangelo remote branch and a Neo 2000 tape library in the central campus to back up the 5 terabytes of data including the web…
    13 September 2006
    Tags: Library • University • Administrators • Students • Scalability • Campus

  • Case Study: WHSmith builds 3-tier ILM all-EMC set-up

    WHSmith News backs up 21 terabytes of data every day and Legato NetWorker moves it from the disk systems to tape for long-term, offsite storage. I think we'll call it disk-to-disk backup.To support its storage area network (SAN) and network…
    27 December 2005
    Tags: Availability • Tier • Archiving • Lifecycle • Ilm • Backs

Reviews

  • QNAP TS-659 Pro Turbo review

    The QNAP TS-659 Pro Turbo NAS packs six drive bays and up to 12 terabytes of storage into a compact, energy-efficient box. Armed with Intel's Atom D510 processor and QNAP's latest firmware, this network-attached storage (NAS) device is a competent…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Raid • Power Consumption • Mac Os • Hard Drives • Configured • Atom

  • Synology DiskStation DS509+ review

    Synology's DiskStation DS509+ is a great value network-attached storage (NAS) device with five drive bays - letting you store up to 10 terabytes of data, though you'll have to supply your own drives. Synology's DiskStation DS509+ is a great value…
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Audio • Streaming • Photos • Connecting • Performs • Recognise

  • Thecus N7700

    The Thecus N7700 network-attached storage doesn't come with any hard drives but it offers seven 3.5in drive bays that allows for a total potential storage capacity of 14 terabytes. The Thecus N7700 is quite cheap too and boasts fast file transfer…
    07 December 2009
    Tags: Volumes • Shares • Administration • Gigabit Ethernet • Ftp • Consumption

  • Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount

    A lovely rack with up to 4 Terabytes of storage in one SAN would once have cost and arm and both legs, but not any more. The cooling required on PC-based NAS models can make them noisy this one is barely hums.The system boots up in a matter of…
    13 May 2008
    Tags: Admin • Active Directory • Utility • Rack • Gigabit Ethernet • Redundancy

  • Buffalo Technology TeraStation Pro NAS

    The TeraStation family is Buffalo Technology's take on the idea, with the Pro tag designating a specification suitable for SMEs as opposed to home users.There are several TeraStation Pro models, which vary only in their capacity, currently 0.6 to…
    16 June 2006
    Tags: Attached • Status • Fan • Nas • Gigabit Ethernet • Configured

  • QNAP TS-401 NAS server

    This is a good place for such a function as it stops everyday types of malware form spreading around using the NAS as a distribution hub.The storage - physically comprising is four 3.5 inch hot-swappable SATA drives can be configured in RAID 0,1…
    22 May 2006
    Tags: Logging • Panel • Attached • Anti Virus • Alerts • Configured

White Papers

  • iSCSI: Accelerating the Transition to Network Storage

    Researchers estimate that there are now several million terabytes of online information, an amount that continues to grow exponentially with every e-mail message sent, every Web and MP3 file posted, and every online transaction executed.This…
    23 January 2007
    Tags: Architectures • Analysts • Attached • Networked Storage • Data Storage

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