GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) has today released GFI Backup 2010 – Business Edition. The new backup solution is ideally suited for IT administrators who want to create a single backup/restore task and apply it across the entire network, saving valuable time in configuring multiple tasks as well as maintaining them when a change in policy occurs. GFI Backup – Business Edition has purposely been designed to ensure that the process to restore data is reliable, efficient, fast and easy to manage. GFI Backup is a fast, efficient, full-featured network data backup solution which applies comprehensive backup, restore and synchronization functionality to all files, web, Microsoft SQL servers and more. Using an intuitive wizard-driven, point-and-click configuration, GFI Backup can be installed in minutes and backups created with minimal effort. "Every IT administrator knows how important data backups are but many businesses are still reluctant to create network backups because they are often considered complex, time-consuming and expensive largely because of the traditional way backup solutions work. This is not so with GFI Backup. We have also focused heavily on the restore functionality. People back data up every day but will restore only once. Therefore, the restore process has to be reliable, efficient, fast and devoid of any complexity or dependence on the backup product," Walter Scott, GFI's CEO said. "The business edition of GFI Backup has been designed from the ground up with the busy administrator in mind, allowing them to create, assign, manage, analyze and run backup/restore tasks even remotely. This new solution addresses many of the concerns that IT administrators voice when looking at backup solutions such as vendor lock-in, complex licensing and the inability to create a single backup or restore task that can be applied network-wide. GFI Backup is cost-effective, fast and makes the whole backup/r
LAKE FOREST, Calif., April 6, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --WD(R) (NYSE: WDC) announced today that it is now shipping WD VelociRaptor(R) 450 GB and 600 GB hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives. The new WD VelociRaptor hard drive is designed for blade servers, high-performance PCs, Mac(R) computers, professional workstations, as well as 1U and 2U rack servers that require a balance of high performance and capacity. As the only 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive on the market today, and a favorite amongst enthusiast and enterprise groups, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive now comes packed with twice the capacity and up to 15% performance increase over the previous generation. The most popular hard drive for high-performance enthusiasts who demand the ultimate SATA drive, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built with enterprise-class mechanics that provide 24x7 durability under high-performance demands and packs up to 600 GB of capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor. The WD VelociRaptor drive is also available in the IcePack(TM) enclosure, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink - a factory customization that fits the drive into a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps this powerful drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop chassis and 3.5-inch HDD form factor enterprise chassis. "WD is a leader in the performance and reliability of enterprise SATA hard drives," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD's enterprise business unit. "Demand for performance combined with an increase in capacity continues to rise and WD is the leader in this category. WD customers can rely on the new WD VelociRaptor to deliver high performance under the harshest conditions, while continuing to keep user data safe." Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include: Killer speed - SATA 6 Gb/s interface and 32 MB cache enhance the next generation 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor making it up to 15% faster
SAN JOSE, Calif – April 6, 2010– Cisco today announced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages. The centerpiece of today's announcement is the second-generation Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM, which further accelerates the promise of virtualization, delivering a high performance computing architecture uniting compute, network, storage access, andvirtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system. The next generation two-socket and four-socket server additions to theUnified Computing System portfolio offer up to 50 percent more processor cores, 300 percent greater application performance, and four times the standard memory footprint, providing the ideal platform for the majority of enterprise workloads. The company also expanded the Cisco NexusTM portfolio with the Nexus 2248 and Nexus 2232 fabric extenders, delivering cost-effective, industry-leading capacity with 10-Gigabit Ethernet to the data center. With these innovations, the Cisco® data center architecture now delivers: Up to four times the compute capacity in the same footprint, compared to first-generation Cisco Unified Computing System servers Up to four times the bandwidth capacity in the same footprint with the existing chassis, compared to first generation Cisco Unified Computing System Up to 92 percent fewer points of management than legacy networks Up to 30 percent greater application throughput with the Cisco Virtualized Interface Card Up to 76 percent greater database consolidation with Cisco memory extension Up to 10 percent reduced power consumption, compared with like-for-like competitive configurations These results translate to reduced infrastructure complexity and sprawl, significantly reduced costs, and improved business agility. Consequently, businesses and organiz
ORLANDO, Fla. — March 24, 2010 — Today at the VoiceCon Orlando 2010 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its unified communications software, code-named Communications Server "14," will be available in the second half of 2010. In his keynote address, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Communications Group, demonstrated the new software for the first time publicly and said Communications Server "14" will help make communications simpler, more open and more cost-efficient. Pall said the new software includes a complete communications solution, with full enterprise telephony; a familiar and powerful way to communicate and collaborate using a sleek, simplified Communicator client that works with Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange; and a versatile platform that allows customers to embed communications in applications. In addition, customers will be able to use instant messaging, presence and other capabilities of the software both on-premises and in the cloud with Microsoft Office Communications Online. Among the capabilities demonstrated today, Pall showed how Communications Server "14" helps people find colleagues based on their expertise through a new skill search feature; understand when their colleagues are available to collaborate and, with a new location-awareness feature,where they are available; easily initiate collaboration; and bring together the content, resources and people needed to work together. Three years ago, business communications technology began the transformation from technology silos into an integrated software platform. Now, Microsoft's unified communications software has been adopted broadly by millions of customers. In his keynote address, Pall predicted that technologies such as Communications Server "14" will usher in a new chapter in business communications, the rise of "connected communications." He predicted that, in the next three years, more than
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