| WD introduces RE4-GP hard drive in India |
 Western Digital expanded its enterprise family of hard drives to include the next-generation 2 TB capacity, the largest and only 2 TB enterprise-class hard drive today. Combining industry-leading 64 MB cache, dual processors, and increased areal density, WD RE4-GP hard drives yield twice the processing power resulting in as much as 25 percent performance improvement over the previous generation.
The new WD RE4-GP 2 TB hard drive provides enterprise-class reliability for storage-hungry applications, such as cloud-computing infrastructure, large-scale data centers, data archive and tape replacement systems, commercial video surveillance and digital video editing houses, with an energy- and money-saving solution that combats the challenges facing the enterprise IT sector—limited available drive slots, maximum capacity required, and limited power and budget. Addressing the growing high-capacity enterprise market, WD RE4-GP 2 TB drives are reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time before failure) in high duty cycle environments.
WD RE4-GP hard drives with GreenPower technology deliver exceptional power conservation, run ultra-cool and quiet, while providing solid performance. WD drives with GreenPower technology monitor work load and automatically invoke idle mode whenever possible to further reduce unnecessary power consumption by up to an additional 40 percent. Drive recovery time from idle mode is less than one second, providing seamless power management between the drive and the host controller.
The WD RE4-GP 2 TB hard drive (model WD2002FYPS) is available at distributors. MSRP for the product is Rs 19556/- .
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| IBM announces new generation of Intel based servers and software |
 IBM India announced the availability of the new generation of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based System x servers and software that enable customers to more easily roll out virtualized computing and significantly reduce growing operating costs with higher performance, simplified management and increased utilization, in India.
In addition to the new Intel processor, all of the new generation offerings include a complete redesign of the power and cooling for higher energy efficiency IBM Power Systems, System z, storage and non-IBM x86 servers are all supported, with a potential cost savings in management costs of up to 44 percent. New System x servers boast double the compute performance in some models, and support more memory, storage and I/O to help customers of all sizes ease the transition to highly efficient virtualized computing resources. System x blades and racks lead the industry with 96GB to 1TB memory options. System x supports multiple architectures and is designed to lower ownership costs and enable new paradigms such as Cloud computing. In addition to hardware innovations, IBM announced new management software to complement Systems Director 6.1, which enables clients to automatically manage virtual and physical assets across platforms.
IBM is also introducing "Express" models of three systems that are designed for midsize companies. Two rack-mounted servers, those offer twice the virtualization performance and use up to 60 percent less power than previous generations. The new IBM BladeCenter HS22 Express that is two times faster than previous IBM blades and offers best-in-class reliability, availability and serviceability.
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| Netgear introduces Prosafe FSM7226RS in India |
 NETGEAR announced the availability of Prosafe 24-Port 10/100 MBPS L2 Managed Stackable Switch with Static Routes FSM7226RS in India. The ProSafe FSM7226RS with 24- 10/100 Mbps ports and 2 combo Gigabit Ethernet ports provide unprecedented flexibility. This enables fiber connectivity through two hot-swappable small form-factor pluggable (SFP) Gigabit interfaces. The non-blocking design of the switches delivers simultaneous, full wire-speed, low-latency throughput to all ports. In addition, their 1U rack-mount form factor uses less rack space and provides a lower per-port cost than comparable Fast Ethernet switches.
Robust security features include IEEE 802.1x port-based authentication ensuring that only authorized users can access your network and Access Control List (ACL) provides higher level of security for specific traffic and applications. Secure management of the switches is available through Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv3) for the Web GUI and Secure Shell (SSH) for Command Line Interface sessions. Multiple switches can be securely managed via SNMPv3 with NETGEAR's ProSafe Network Management Software NMS100. These switches have an industry standard command line interface (CLI), which enables customers to cut down their operational expenses.
The NETGEAR FSM7226RS is backed by a life time warranty and is now available via Rashi Peripherals and Ingram Micro, the authorized distributors of Netgear at a price of Rs. 26900/-
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| HP unveils new shared storage solution |
 HP recently announced new shared storage solutions that improve business reliability and reduce costs by simplifying server virtualization deployments. Customers deploying virtual environments often overlook the storage requirements needed to match their redesigned infrastructure. This can lead to lower levels of data availability and poor utilization of storage assets. In addition, customers frequently do not have the storage space needed to scale as business demands increase, which can impact application performance.
The new HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions offer a scale-out architecture that provides data replication and automatically balances data volumes across all storage resources. Furthermore, to ensure that application requirements are met, administrators can cost-effectively deploy shared storage within virtual server environments while using existing physical and virtual technology infrastructures. HP also announced the industry’s first highly available shared storage solution within a virtualized blade server infrastructure. The new HP StorageWorks SB40c with P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software bundle delivers a scalable storage area network (SAN). This SAN can be deployed within the HP BladeSystem infrastructure and expanded across multiple blade enclosures to meet high growth storage needs.
The HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions and VSA software leverage VMware’s vStorage functionality, integrate with VMware Site Recovery Manager and are VMware Ready Certified. As a result, customers benefit from simplified management and availability of virtual infrastructures.
HP also introduced a channel registration program that allows HP partners to grow their businesses and better support customers. The program is available through HP’s Value Special Pricing offered to partners who have a specific sales opportunity that includes HP LeftHand solutions. This offer is available worldwide and may vary by region. Resellers can contact their local HP representative for details.
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Hitachi Data Systems announced a new end-to-end server-to-storage virtualization initiative to drive efficiencies across virtualized environments. To support this strategy, Hitachi Data Systems also announced two important business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments—Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V, and Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V combines the key platform capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 including high availability through Microsoft Multipath I/O, server virtualization and clustering with the rich platform capabilities of Hitachi Data Systems storage virtualization and system-based replication. The second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager adds important support for the midrange Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage family and provides customers continuous, real time local and remote replication and automatic failover capabilities to help ensure resilient data protection, high availability and disaster recovery.
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| Tandberg Data expands StorageLibrary T40+ series |
 Tandberg Data (Asia) Pte Ltd introduced the StorageLibrary T120+, a scalable tape library , offering from 24 to 114 slots, with capacities ranging from 9.6TB to 91TB (native). The StorageLibrary T40+ Series, comprising of the StorageLibrary T40+, T80+ and T120+, offers a choice of Full Height and Half Height LTO-3 and LTO-4 drives and a host of management features.
The Tandberg StorageLibrary T40+ Series combines high capacity and performance in scalable 4U form factor, scaling up to 12U and 91TB with the T120+. The libraries offer outstanding value for IT departments that need to perform large, unattended backups, and who require flexibility, reliability and a future proof technology. With flexible capacity, performance and support for LVD SCSI, Native Fibre Channel and SAS connectivity, the StorageLibrary is suited to fit in most midrange and enterprise storage environments.
The Tandberg StorageLibrary T120+ offers compressed capacities up to 182TB and performance up to 10.5TB/hr (compressed). The StorageLibrary T40+ Series has a host of management and maintenance features, ensuring minimized down-time and ease of management. The libraries offer WORM (write once read many) and Encryption (LTO-4 only) for enhanced data protection and regulatory compliance.
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| Sybase launches Sybase IQ 15 Analytics Server in India |
Sybase announced the launch of Sybase IQ 15 in India. This latest version of Sybase IQ is designed to deliver more accurate analyses and reports in a speed dramatically faster than its previous version to address the growing need of the business sector to make well-informed and critical business decisions based on real-time data. Sybase IQ 15 builds upon Sybase IQ column-based analytics server and add more power, flexibility and manageability to today's data-laden and user-expanding analytics environments, thus enabling enterprises to anticipate market risks and opportunities, stay ahead of customers’ preferences and adjust business processes to enable growth—all at a very affordable cost to implement and manage.
Sybase IQ is the industry’s #1 column-based analytics server with more than 1500 worldwide active customers adopting its approach to data warehousing and analytics projects (of varying degrees of complexities and sizes) worldwide. Sybase IQ 15 builds upon Sybase’s strong heritage in data analytics and is the fastest, most mature and feature-rich column-based analytics offering in the marketplace today.
Sybase IQ 15 delivers a smarter approach to enrich the enterprise analytics experience, enabling enterprises to increase performance, scale their environment and reduce the costs of maintaining the analytics environment.
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| Seagate ships Barracuda LP |
 The new line of Seagate Barracuda LP (Low Power) hard drives deliver on the promise of sustainability, energy efficiency and a more eco-friendly footprint by helping organizations cut PC power costs and giving money-minded consumers great performance for their energy dollar. The new family of energy-efficient Seagate desktop drives helps reduce system power costs, runs quieter than traditional drives and operates at lower temperatures, extending the life of system components.
The Seagate Barracuda LP hard drive, a 3.5-inch 5900RPM drive, is available in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB. The new hard drive family helps reduce product costs for makers of low-power personal computers, external PC storage and multiple-drive home networking SOHO systems by allowing them to use lighter-duty fans, power supplies and other system components.
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| New EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture delivers more |
 The new EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture integrates industry-standard components with unique EMC Symmetrix capabilities to deliver massive scalability—enabling systems that scale to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage and tens of millions of IOPS (input/output per second) supporting hundreds of thousands of VMware and other virtual machines in a single federated storage infrastructure.
The first storage system based on this innovative new architecture is the EMC Symmetrix V-Max system, which is available immediately. It is the world’s largest high-end storage array and uses multi-core processors to lower power costs and improve IOPS per dollar. Combined with the latest generation Enterprise Flash, Fibre Channel and SATA drives, the Symmetrix V-Max system allows users to cost effectively meet the widest range of storage requirements for high performance and high capacity in a single system. It joins the market-leading EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 system and expands EMC’s high-end portfolio.
The high-availability Symmetrix V-Max Engine at the center of the new system is a flexible building block that features multiple redundant Quad-core Intel Xeon processors with up to 128 GB (gigabytes) of memory and up to 16 host and 16 drive channel connections. The Virtual Matrix Architecture allows Symmetrix V-Max Engines to interconnect and share resources. This enables a Symmetrix V-Max system to scale to 1024 GB (gigabytes) of global memory, with twice as many front-end and back-end connections compared to the industry-leading Symmetrix DMX-4 systems. The ability to interconnect and share resources to easily and linearly scale out is a key customer requirement as virtual machines and applications are dynamically added and shifted.
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| COBRA improves operational efficiency and cuts storage costs |
IBM is addressing the challenge of today’s business leaders to deliver greater return on their IT investments with new versions of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse software. Code-named "Cobra" the new version of DB2 introduced recently, reduces an even greater amount of space needed to store data, helping clients save up to 75% on related energy costs—more than any other available database software.
The new software includes workload management and autonomic computing features that improve the performance of key applications such as closing quarterly financial reports and helping IT staff more efficiently manage their growing data, leading to a time savings of up to 35%. This savings enables companies to refocus highly skilled employee time on driving better business results rather than on administrative and performance tuning tasks.
IBM's Integrated Data Management approach helps improve developer productivity—an essential way for companies to reduce costs. DB2 9.7 includes new technology that makes it easier for IT professionals to quickly develop and deploy applications, including ones written specifically to operate on other database software. Now, developers can easily take advantage of these new technologies using the IBM Data Studio to design, develop, deploy and manage information throughout its entire life cycle. Companies that have participated in IBM's Early Access Program have noted significant time savings when deploying applications to the new version of DB2.
DB2 9.7 and InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 will be available in June. Customers, developers and partners can test drive DB2 9.7 by taking advantage of IBM's Early Access Program.
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| Transcend launches 16GB microSDHC |
 Transcend Information has announced the availability of a convenient kit that includes a 16GB microSDHC card and Transcend P3 compact USB card reader in India. The kit can help Transcend’s customers from losing their tiny microSDHC card and transfer data easily to any available computer.
For added convenience, Transcend currently offers a combo package that includes a microSDHC card bundled with an ultra-compact USB reader to make transferring data between your computer and your cell phone easier than ever. Simply remove the microSDHC card from your cell phone, slide the card into the reader and pug it right into your computer’s USB port. The reader works just like a standard USB flash drive, with the added ability to upgrade to an even higher capacity microSDHC card in the future.
The reader is also small and light enough to attach to your cell phone, PDA, or keychain so you can always have the reader available when you need it. Transcend’s microSDHC + USB microSD reader combo package is the perfect complement to your mobile lifestile.
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| Newly-launched online storage backup facility eases data security risk |
 Nivio, the online computing utility, announced the launch of NivioLite Free, a free online storage & backup facility created to ease data security risks. With increasing threat of data loss, theft and compromised user privacy, this new service from Nivio allows people to greatly reduce these risks by providing safe, robust, online data storage for critical information.
Anyone signing up for NivioLite Free receives 1GB of secure storage (enough to store around 400 photos or 200 songs) absolutely free. Users needing additional storage space can simply purchase extra storage on a pay-per-use basis. Alternatively, for a small fee of just Rs 208.5 (£3) a month, users can upgrade to Nivio Full Service which allows full access to Nivio’s virtual Windows Desktop where one can create and edit files. This would include the nDrive, a user intuitive tool that facilitates an easy and quick transfer of files between a local computer and the Nivio online desktop.
The cloud-based nDrive will go head-to-head with Google's much speculated GDrive storage service. The nDrive gives users a massive 5 GBs of storage with the ability to buy more on a pay-per-use basis. nDrive’s ‘drag and drop’ functions also means that transferring files between a computer and Nivio is as simple as dragging them onto a traditional USB stick, but without all the hassle of traditional hardware. nDrive will be available to users as early as mid February.
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| Seagate delivers next-generation hard drives |
 Seagate introduced its Seagate SV35.5 Series hard drives, designed for optimal performance in digital video surveillance systems. The Seagate SV35.5 hard drive is built for rigorous 24x7 use, and combines best-in-class reliability, performance, capacity, acoustics and power consumption along with features that make SDVR integration easy, making it the ideal solution for the demands of the growing video surveillance market.
The Seagate SV35.5 hard drive provides a number of key advantages for video surveillance environments over standard hard drives including: performance-tuned 140 MB/s sustained sequential data rates and ATA-7 streaming commands for high-speed transfers, enhanced caching capabilities and built-in error recovery for non-stop streaming, thermal monitoring and reporting, unique user-selectable partitioning, low spin-up power, and best-in-class acoustics for extremely quiet operation.
With disk capacities from 250GB to 1TB, the Seagate SV35.5 hard drive offers flexible DVR design capabilities as a video surveillance DVR, network DVR, or for direct and network-attached JBOD video surveillance storage.
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| HP launched ProLiant G6 server line |
 HP introduced the new HP ProLiant G6 server line, which delivers double the performance of previous generations, enabling customers to get more value out of every IT dollar. The HP ProLiant G6 line’s advances in energy efficiency, virtualization and automation, make it ideal for all customers. These innovations are combined with comprehensive service offerings to redefine server economics. The new HP ProLiant G6 servers are available in 11 standards-based tower, rack and blade platforms. This represents the largest HP ProLiant rollout in company history.
The new HP ProLiant G6 servers deliver double the performance with only half the power consumption of previous generation servers, hence completely transforming the economics of server-based computing. The HP ProLiant G6 platform offers a comprehensive set of embedded technologies and flexible tools to help maximize the productivity of a server infrastructure.
The HP ProLiant G6 platform builds upon the quality of the HP ProLiant brand to provide increased performance and customer value over previous generations. The HP ProLiant G6 platform, based on Intel Xeon 5500 processors, includes the HP ProLiant DL380, DL370, DL360, DL180 and DL160 rack-optimized servers; the HP ProLiant BL 490c, BL 460c and BL 280c server blades; and the HP ProLiant ML370, ML350 and ML150 tower servers.
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| AMI introduces SafeTrends CDP software for Windows environment |
American Megatrends (AMI) introduces SafeTrends, a breakthrough Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Software solution for Windows environments for the safeguarding, backup and restoration of important digital media. SafeTrends safeguards the contents of Windows desktop PCs and notebooks with the flexibility to choose what to save, and when and where to save it. SafeTrends monitors, filters and protects data with local and remote backup to USB drives, network shares or Network Attached Storage (NAS) over a local or home network.
This groundbreaking new CDP product features multiple options for scheduling local and remote backups of data. It protects data by continually monitoring changes in selected files, and backing them up in one or more selected locations. SafeTrends also can specify how many versions of a specific file or folder to save, and features an Event Log to review activity and fine tune performance.
SafeTrends allows users to take advantage of unused storage space on local machines or storage appliances and put them to use by allocating these locations for backup storage. SafeTrends also takes advantage of data deduplication and compresses and encrypts data for safe, quick transmission and efficient use of storage space.
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