Category: NAS
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Intel Ships Chips For SMB, SOHO NAS
Intel has introduced two new versions of its Atom processor aimed at NAS devices for SMBs and home offices, the 1.8GHz Atom D425 single-core and D525 dual-core processors. Intel officials say the processors boost performance with higher CPU frequencies for faster storage processing, and will support the new memory technology DDR3 small outline dual in-line…
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Storwize Upgrades Compression Appliances
Storwize, which specializes in data compression for primary storage (aka online storage optimization), this week enhanced its appliances and software to boost compression ratios (freeing up more capacity on primary storage), provide compression for existing data, and enhance availability. The company now claims capacity savings of 50% to 90% — without performance degradation — on…
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Seagate To Buy LaCie For $186M
Hard drive maker Seagate announced Thursday that is acquiring LaCie in a multi-step process that first involves gaining a controlling interest in the Mac external storage specialist. LaCie CEO Philippe Spruch and his affiliate have agreed to sell 64.5 per cent of LaCie’s outstanding shares to Seagate. Once that transaction is complete, and barring any…
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Netgear Launches NAS With Cloud Option
— Netgear has added an entry-level NAS system for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to its product line with support for iSCSI and an embedded cloud backup option via partner ElephantDrive. The new ReadyNAS NVX, announced and on display today at the Storage Networking World conference, offers double the performance of previous Netgear NV products,…
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Isilon puts multiple tiers under one file system
– With the rollout of its sixth generation operating system today, OneFS 6.0, Isilon introduced two applications for simplifying data management in scale-out NAS environments: SmartPools and InsightIQ. SmartPools unifies multiple Isilon IQ systems, or storage tiers, under a single file system and volume with policy-based automated data movement between the tiers. The file tiering…
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70 Percent Of SMBs Using Cloud Storage Have NAS
In its first survey report covering the network-attached storage (NAS) marketplace for small and medium-sized business (SMB), analyst firm In-Stat this week said research data shows that seven out of ten SMBs that use cloud-based storage also use NAS. Additionally, although NAS used by SMBs comprises a smaller overall chunk of the entire NAS market,…
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Gluster: Open source scale-out NAS
Gluster recently introduced additions to its open source NAS platform, claiming the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances are available in two versions: one for VMware virtual machines and one for Amazon-based cloud environments. The VMware Virtual Storage Appliance integrates the Gluster File System…
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Dell’s Fluid File System Gathers Momentum In Compellent Refresh
Dell announced Tuesday that it reached a significant milestone in its Fluid Data initiative. The server and storage provider’s distributed file system now spans its Compellent, EqualLogic and PowerVault NAS platforms. The move provides a unified foundation to deliver data protection and replication across storage systems that handle both block and file data. Getting Fluid…
