Panasas Overhauls Parallel Clustered Nas Platform Eyes Enterprise
Panasas Inc. is updating and expanding its parallel clustered NAS platform in hopes of taking it from almost exclusively high-performance computing (HPC) environments into the enterprise.The Panasas ActiveStor 4000 and ActiveStor 6000 storage clusters replace the company's ActiveStor 3000 and ActiveStor 5000 models, with up to twice the performance per shelf. Panasas is also rolling ...

Ibm Wraps Fat Tentacles Around Fluffy Clouds
IBM will splash $300m on 13 new data centres in 10 countries in its latest bid to fluff up cloud computing.The tech giant announces the plans later today, but the pre-briefings show the centres are to be used for disaster recovery. Customers will house their back-ups in data vaults, which they can access very quickly over the web, in the event of a business continuity failure. Apparently, this is much ...

2 Bay Tray Less Lightweight Storage Enclosure Tr2ut
Sans Digital, a brand of high performance storage subsystems, is introducing the 2-bay storage enclosure TR2UT-B, to complete its TowerRAID series. The separate release of the TS2UT-B places emphasis on its dual interfaces and hardware RAID capabilities that differ from the rest of the TowerRAID series.The TR2UT-B is a 2-bay RAID enclosure that supports USB 2.0 as well as eSATA connections. It features four different RAID ...

Nexsan Announces Interoperability Between Mac Os X Leopard And Satabeast Xi
Derby, UK - 19th August , 2008 - Nexsan, a leading provider of energy efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced that it has tested and demonstrated interoperability with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard Operating System and the Nexsan SATABeast Xi. Announced at Macworld 2008, SATABeast Xi was the first high density, green storage solution built and optimized for ...

Istor Intros Integrasuite
IRVINE, Calif. -- iStor Networks, Inc." (www.istor.com) a leader in high performance iSCSI storage solutions, today announces that it has started shipping its new management interface, integraSuite MC Management Center.integraSuite provides smart and simple setup, storage provisioning and allocation. The intuitive interface requires no storage expertise ...

Apple Ipod Nano Batteries May Have Caused Fires In Japan
Apple iPod nanos were responsible for three fires, according to Japan's trade ministry. The government said three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos and pointed the finger at a battery defect. No one was injured in the three fires caused by Apple iPod nanos but Japanese officials said Apple had reported two other cases where people had suffered minor burns in fires involving the Apple iPod. The ...

Cleversafes Dsnet Helps Isps Launch Dr Service
Service providers are experimenting with a new approach to geographically distributed storage for disaster recovery with the launch of the Distributed Storage Network (dsNet), also called the Storage Internet.Distributed Storage Network is based on products from Cleversafe Inc., which also runs an open source development project. Cleversafe's information-dispersal algorithm makes "slices" of data that contain added code that ...

Microsoft Format Plows Ahead As Xml Protests Lose Steam
Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) format overcame its final stumbling block and is moving forward as an official ISO standard. The file format had been held back earlier this year by claims that the voting process was rushed and that Microsoft's specification information was incomplete.Open XML got the green light to move ...

Brits Looking To Long Term With Home Improvement Projects
British homeowners are now willing to "invest a bit more in the long-term" for the duration of the credit crunch through improving their homes.After almost a decade of uninterrupted growth, house prices across the UK have started to decline, prompting many people to put off home moves and look to offset falling equity values with improvement projects.As such, new research from Zurich Insurance has found that Britons have ...

Yosemite Technologies Delivers Yosemite Backup 87 Tm With Enhanced Disaster Recovery For Microsoft
Yosemite Technologies, Inc., a global provider of total data protection solutions, today announced it has added full support for Microsoft Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems with the immediate release of Yosemite Backup(TM) 8.7. This latest version of Yosemite's popular server backup solution extends its ability to protect virtual environments to now ...