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QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers today expanded their hugely popular Business Series Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of a new 8-drive desktop model, TS-859 Pro+ Turbo NAS. The TS-859 Pro+ incorporates Intel's new D525 dual-core Atom CPU with 1.8GHz clock speed and 1GB RAM, which can achieve up to 116MB/s transfer rates (FTP/Samba reads) while maintaining guaranteed lower power consumption. The Turbo NAS provides up to 16TB of extremely large storage capacity (using 2TB hard drives and single disk volume/JBOD configuration), and is targeted for business users and workgroups who need a tower server to fit in their office environment for backup and sharing of enormous amount of documents, digital pictures, videos, and applications.
Meanwhile, the TS-859 Pro+ has been certified as compatible NFS and iSCSI datastore with fully VMware Ready, Citrix Ready and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters compliant. QNAP continues its industry-leading iSCSI support for server clustering and virtualized environments including support for MC/S, MPIO, SPC-3, and thin provisioning. With built-in iSCSI initiator and target service, network storage can be virtually expanded by simply adding additional QNAP Turbo NAS units to the network and adding virtual volumes, up to 8 per device.
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Today Synology America Corp. announced the release of its latest offerings for office and workgroup environments- the DS111 and the DS211. The new DiskStations are the latest in Synology’s solid business line, providing affordable and effective network attached storage (NAS) solutions.
The DS111 and DS211 offer excellent value for businesses, complete with Synology’s renowned and feature-rich DiskStation Manager (DSM) 3.0. With competitive read/write speeds, the new models will keep up with business needs. Access control lists (ACLs) and easy ADS integration streamline access control administration, bringing enterprise-level features within reach of even small businesses.
"DSM 3.0 already offers a solid list of features businesses need and want," said Jason Bonoan, a marketing specialist at Synology America. "These two latest additions to the DiskStation family really offer a high-performing platform to run them on, and at an attractive price-point."
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NETGEAR, Inc., a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and Internet service providers, today announced the NETGEAR ReadyNAS® Pro family of business storage products. This product family is designed specifically for businesses seeking Smart IT solutions without the price premium of traditional vendors. The ReadyNAS Pro family delivers higher performance and reliability than comparable consumer storage products, enabling VMware, Microsoft, hybrid cloud and disk-based backup and recovery solutions.
Smart IT departments demand reliable and simple solutions that scale to fit their budget and business needs. The new ReadyNAS Pro family includes 2-bay, 4-bay, and 6-bay desktop products that deliver the right throughput, warranty and disk drive specifications for business applications, as well as a complete range of 3rd party certifications.
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NETGEAR today released four new additions to its ReadyNAS Ultra family of home media servers. The new ReadyNAS Ultra Plus series delivers approximately 30% more performance over the ReadyNAS Ultra series, offering the world’s best streaming media experience for music, movies, photos and files. In addition, the 2-bay model of the ReadyNAS Ultra family will soon be available worldwide.
The ReadyNAS Ultra Plus series transforms home media networks, delivering media content to local or remote handhelds, desktops and game consoles. NETGEAR’s industry-leading partnerships deliver ex-panded media experiences at home and away from home. TiVo® users may use the ReadyNAS Ultra Plus to tremendously expand their DVR capacity. Orb™ transcoding support puts the right media formats on the right screens, streaming movies on handhelds in any connected location. Skifta™ shifts movies and music onto any DLNA networked screen. Remote file access is now available for iPhone users with the new ReadyNAS Remote iPhone App.
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Synology today unveiled the DiskStation DS411j, a 4-bay full-featured NAS server dedicated to backups and data sharing and available at an attractive price tag for home and small office users. Together with recently debuted DiskStation Manager 3.0 (DSM 3.0), the operating system renowned for its intuitive interface, users can manage their data systematically and enjoy multimedia content to their heart’s content.
Equipped with 1.2GHz and less than 3 watts CPU, the DS411j is powerful yet energy-efficient. The fully loaded DS411j consumes merely 42.9W in operation and even 16W when it hibernates, which facilitates extension of hard drive life as well. Power consumption can be further decreased by scheduling power on and off. The DS411j comes with 128MB DDRII RAM, one Gigabit LAN port and two USB ports.
