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SMBs Can Benefit From Virtualized Disaster Recovery
While the first wave of virtualization has consolidated server hardware into virtual hosts and recognized significant savings in physical machines, small and midsized organizations must now consider the impact of this consolidation on their backup and disaster recovery plans, according to a report from QuorumSoft. By encapsulating workloads that can be shifted between physical hosts…
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EMC Sees Record Quarter After Storage Line Refresh
Earnings reports from storage and data protection giant EMC may be getting somewhat repetitive each quarter, but they are certainly not ho-hum for EMC management, employees and shareholders. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation on April 20 again reported revenue that exceeded Wall Street projections to go with healthy profit margins, as it has for a string…
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Synology Launches DiskStation DS411+II NAS Server
Network Attached Storage specialist Synology launched DiskStation DS411+II – a four-bay NAS server dedicated to data sharing and backup and aimed at small and midsize businesses. The DS411+II delivers 110.73M bps reading and 105.48M bps writing speeds on average under RAID 5 configuration in a Windows environment. The DS411+II is also designed to be energy-efficient,…
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Dell Launches New Server, Storage Systems for SMBs
Dell is rolling out new servers, storage systems and networking devices designed to help small and midsize businesses that company officials say are getting overrun by the rapidly rising tide of data. In addition, many of these smaller businesses are trying to keep up older servers or desktop PCs that have been set up as…
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Toshiba Announces Security Feature for Self-Encrypting Hard Drives
Electronics company Toshiba announced a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host. The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models are designed to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to configure different data invalidation options that align with various end-user scenarios. Designed to address the increasing need…