Cisco Systems Inc. announced Wednesday its intent to acquire privately held Ubiquisys, headquartered in Swindon, U.K. Ubiquisys offers 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) small-cell technologies that provide seamless connectivity across mobile heterogeneous networks for service providers.
Infortrend Corp. announced Thursday five new additions to its ZFS-based EonNAS x10 Series -- the 2-bay EonNAS Pro 210, the 5-bay EonNAS Pro 510 and the 8-bay EonNAS Pro 810 tower models, as well as the 4-bay 1U EonNAS 1110 and the 8-bay 2U EonNAS 1210 rack mount models. These new additions offer enterprise-class storage solutions that help SMB and SOHO users optimize file sharing, IP SAN applications, data storage and backup.
RAID Inc., a provider of solutions for HPC, big data and virtualized environments, announced Thursday launch of scalable high throughput NAS solutions using Fusion-IO PCIe based flash storage and IBM GPFS.
Netgear Inc. announced Monday a new line of its ReadyNAS portfolio which run on the newly developed ReadyNAS OS 6. These devices are built on a custom platform designed as "storage made easy" for both the home and small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). Netgear also unveiled a suite of new downloadable applications for these products on the genie+ marketplace.
NEC Corporation of America (NEC), provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications and biometric solutions, launched the fourth generation of its HYDRAstor HS8-4000. The HS8-4000 expands the maximum scalability of the HYDRAstor grid storage platform to greater than 900 TB/hr (250,000 MB/s) of throughput and greater than 100PB of effective capacity with inline global deduplication across a single scale-out system.
