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Microsoft's Windows Home Server Team announced today that they have signed off on the RTM release of Windows Home Server 2011. According to their blog post, WHS 2011 will be available via TechNet and MSDN in early April. An evaluation version will also be released at this time.
Today, the Home Server engineering team signed off the release version of WHS 2011. An exciting milestone which now starts the process to make it available for purchase.Add a commentAffordable and easy-to-use, Windows Home Server 2011 is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and data automatically backed up, organized, and accessible from virtually anywhere.
To help with questions we hear during this time of the product release cycle, I have provided further guidance below. If you have a specific question, please feel free to post in comments, on our WHS forum.
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QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world-class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Media Players today announced expansion of their popular Business Series lineup of Turbo NAS servers, to include the new TS-x59 Pro II series: the 4-drive TS-459 Pro II, the 5-drive TS-559 Pro II, and the 6-drive TS-659 Pro II. The TS-x59 Pro II lineup sports the powerful yet energy-efficient dual-core Intel® Atom™ D525 1.8GHz processor along with 1GB of DDRIII RAM (expandable to 3GB). In addition to powerful processors, the new models are the first in the industry to support SATA 6Gb/s hard drives. Also new is USB 3.0 support, ensuring internal and external hard drives deliver the highest performance possible.
The new models ship with new V3.4 of QNAP’s renowned NAS management software, supporting all-in-one server applications such as file sharing, FTP server, printer sharing (LAN and Internet), web server, and even video surveillance. Other advanced features include backup to cloud storage including real-time synchronization of any changed files stored on the NAS to the cloud with versioning control, Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR) for disaster recovery and ease of content delivery among HQ and branches, advanced access right control for ease of management, and so on. All of these powerful features are conveniently compacted into a small machine, which can be easily deployed and quietly operate in a typical office environment, even without a server room. These brand new business series NAS models are an ideal solution for high performance, cross-platform file sharing, and the most comprehensive iSCSI/IP-SAN storage solution available for virtualization environment.
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Buffalo Technology today announced the TeraStation Pro WSS Storage Server family, built on the next generation TeraStation Pro platform and utilizing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2. Buffalo’s newest network storage solution family is optimized to deliver the most robust file server experience, and in addition to offering dependable, seamless domain integration, the TeraStation Pro WSS provides advanced features such as centralized management, DFS replication and, on select models, data Deduplication (SIS) and Read-only Domain Controller (RoDC) support. The TeraStation Pro Windows Storage Server family provides businesses a reliable and scalable solution that is not only cost-effective, but easy to deploy and administer into Windows workgroup or domain environments.
The TeraStation Pro WSS family incorporates the powerful Intel® Atom™ D510 Dual-Core Processor, providing exceptional performance during file transfers and everyday NAS functions. Buffalo’s TeraStation Pro WSS also features hot-swap SATA hard drives, dual gigabit Ethernet for automatic failover, dual USB 3.0 ports for backup and accessories and redundant RAID technology, providing a dependable and cost-effective storage solution for businesses of all sizes. With native Active Directory and NTFS support, the new TeraStation Pro WSS family is a highly cost-effective solution for SMBs and beyond.
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The new XXX line of Thecus NAS is leading the way in catering to your needs. With Xtreme Power, Xtreme Function, and Xtreme Value, these Thecus NAS deliver. Whether it be a strong product for a budget price or a high-powered NAS for the tech-savvy, each model is extremely geared towards fitting you. From an extremely speedy 2-bay for your home office to an extremely powerful 8-bay rackmount for even the most demanding enterprise, Thecus XXX NAS are ready for you.
Remember those three letters, it’s the new Thecus product line and they are going to make you reconsider the way you see the NAS world. We took our best products and pumped them up with all the latest components: Intel Atom processors, DDR3 memory, and many more. Designed to work seamlessly with our new firmware V5, the amount of software features of the XXX Series make every cent you put into your NAS worth the investment: New module design, Thecus’s revolutionary Piczza!™ photo server, ThecusShare™, Web Disk, FTP server, Web server, Incremental backup, and iSCSI thin provisioning among many others.
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Today Synology America Corp. is pleased to announce the official release of its latest operating system for the popular DiskStation and RackStation series of NAS products. DiskStation Manager (DSM) 3.1 has Synology continuing to bring yet more enterprise-level features within reach for the SMB and SOHO markets.
"This latest release simply underscores Synology's commitment to bring ever more powerful tools to its business users," said Jason Bonoan, Product Marketing Manager at Synology America. "The real value of this upgrade is that it actually increases the capabilities of existing systems, giving business users more reliable and flexible servers than they had originally purchased, at no additional cost."
Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) in DSM 3.1 gives business users the option to choose 2-disk redundancy, allowing the volume to survive the failure of 2 disks. The updated storage manager offers support for iSNS to allow for centralized management of iSCSI resources. This gives users a choice in reliability.
