QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Video Players today expanded its Turbo NAS lineup with two new mid-range NAS servers targeted at SMB and corporate customers. The new TS-239 Pro II (2 drive model) and TS-439 Pro II (4 drive model) incorporate the new Intel® Atom™ D410 single-core processor, which delivers up to 8TB of high performance, highly reliable networked storage coupled with the business-essential features of QNAP's ultra-high performance Business Series NAS servers.

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The TS-239 Pro II and TS-439 Pro II NAS servers are compatible with VMware's vSphere4 (ESX 4.0) virtualization platform, ideal for departmental file sharing, storage, and advanced server applications in the office environment. VMware's vSphere is the industry's first cloud operating system that offers a way to reduce IT costs and increase responsiveness. Shared networked storage is an essential component of a Cloud Computing infrastructure. SMB and corporate users are able to enjoy the interoperability between VMware virtual machines and QNAP high performance, low power consumption certified storage.

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Enhancing the award-winning solutions line, LaCie today announces the new Enterprise Class range of storage solutions with LaCie d2 Quadra Enterprise Class, LaCie 2big Quadra Enterprise Class, and the LaCie 4big Quadra Enterprise Class. The LaCie Enterprise Class range is among the most sophisticated offerings on the market, and provides six data protection levels, robust performance, data encryption, superior connectivity, RAID protection, a professional backup offer, and an advanced service package.

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Designed for superior performance, the new product range comes with true internal SATA Enterprise Class disks, featuring 7200RPM and 32MB of cache memory. These high-quality internal disks target an ambitious 1.2 million MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) and have been optimized for RAID towers with a vibration resistance technology. Professionals will get the ability to reach more than 700MB/s of transfer speeds through a RAID 50 array with four LaCie 4big Quadra Enterprise Class. LaCie’s Enterprise Class Product range features the most advanced service package on the market, consisting of a 5-year warranty and a 5-year advance product replacement plan.

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Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of storage and wireless networking solutions, today launches the TeraStation ES, its latest high performance Network Attached Storage (NAS) device for small businesses.

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The TeraStation ES is a cost effective business NAS solution available in 2TB, 4TB, 6TB and 8TB capacities. With robust RAID 5 capability, high speed transfer rates of up to 62MB/s and the redundancy of four separate hard drives, critical business data can be managed, stored and backed up quickly, efficiently and safely.

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Synology® Inc. today launched DiskStation DS1010+, a high-performance NAS server delivering scalability, significant storage capacity and multiple business-oriented features for SMB users.

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Delivering reliable performance is key for business servers and the Synology DS1010+ delivers. In the Synology testing lab, the Synology DS1010+ breaks through previous performance tests. "It delivers an average 115+ MB/sec reading speed under RAID 5 configuration in a Windows environment, and 109+ MB/sec writing," said Edward Lin, marketing director of Synology Inc. "The Synology DS1010+ keeps performance high when handling requests from numerous Windows clients concurrently. As to its web server responsiveness rate, it takes only 30.81 seconds to handle 1,000 simultaneous requests," Lin added.

The Synology DS1010+ holds five hard drives that can be scaled up to a total of 10 drives for a maximum of 20 TB capacity using the Synology DX510 that will be launched in March 2010. The hot-swappable hard drive design ensures virtually minimal downtime. The Synology DS1010+ is powered by a 1.67 GHz CPU with floating point computing, 64 bit memory bus, two Gigabit LAN ports, 4 USB ports and 1 GB DDRII RAM. With an optional RAM module, the RAM capacity can be scaled up to 2 GB or 3 GB.

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Freecom, an award-winning manufacturer of external hard drives and portable storage devices, today launched the ‘Network Storage Center’, a simple to use, dedicated 3.5” network storage drive that reliably stores up to 2TB of data from the entire corporate network in one central location. Perfect for small to medium-sized businesses, the Network Storage Center makes it easy for multiple users on the same network to share presentations, download large files and store and access spreadsheets, documents and images across multiple offices from any computer that is connected to the corporate network.

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Complete with a secure remote access option, the Network Storage Center puts users within easy reach of their business-critical information from any location, enabling them to share files across a network anytime, anywhere. Employees can organise their data and control access to specific files by assigning individual usernames and passwords – ensuring that their individual content remains secure and segregated at all times.

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