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QNAP, Inc. today announced the release of the Turbo NAS TS-x21 and TS-x20 series for home users and home offices. The new models in the TS-x21 series are equipped with 2.0 GHz CPU, 1GB DDR3 RAM, and the TS-x20 series with 1.6 GHz CPU, 512MB DDR3 RAM. Both series deliver superior performance for daily routines in file storage, sharing, and data backup, and serve as ideal media centers for storing and sharing huge multimedia files.
The TS-x21 and TS-x20 series feature the brand-new Turbo NAS operating system QTS 4.0. The new QTS 4.0 integrates multi-window operations into the web-based user interface, adds cross-device file synchronization, several smart mobile apps, and more. In an era where almost everyone has at lease one mobile phone or tablet device, the QTS 4.0 fulfills people’s needs of mobile data access and synchronization, and storage for huge quantities of data. What’s more, the QTS 4.0’s multi-window user interface introduces users to an unprecedented NAS management experience. In addition, the multimedia applications and multi-tasking designs not only increase management efficiency but also transform home entertainment.
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ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, announced today that it has added a series of Usenet download and media streaming tools to its App Central library. These new Apps include SABnzbdplus, Sick Beard, CouchPotato, Headphones, and Subsonic. All ASUSTOR users are welcome to try out these new Apps as they are available free of charge from ASUSTOR’s App Central.
As the world’s first NAS devices designed around the use of Apps, the ASUSTOR NAS App Central library contains a rich variety of Apps that users can download and enjoy. Presently, App Central contains over 90 different Apps that users can install to add functionality to their NAS devices. App categories include business, project collaboration, website construction and digital home entertainment.
“App Central is an excellent platform that allows our users to add different types of functionality to their NAS devices. We are very excited to be adding these new Apps to our expanding lineup,” said Steve Huang, Product Manager at ASUSTOR. “Adding Usenet download and media streaming functionality allows us to continue to meet the differing demands of all our users.”
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NETGEAR, Inc., a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today announced a new portfolio of networked-attached-storage (NAS) products which run on the newly developed ReadyNAS OS 6. These revolutionary 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.
With a sleek new interface and a rich set of embedded or easily downloadable applications, this NAS storage portfolio pairs the latest in performance and scalability with cutting-edge technologies such as unlimited snapshots and cloud-managed replication, which dramatically reduces any possibility of data loss. Once again, NETGEAR is taking features and capabilities previously available only from expensive, large-enterprise vendors and lowering the cost while dramatically simplifying deployment and manageability to provide users with affordable, powerful, and reliable NAS storage.
Photographs, video clips, songs, websites, email, client files, and application data on physical or virtual servers — the type of information that enriches our lives and is essential to business can seem endless. With ReadyNAS, customers finally have an advanced, easy-to-use solution for centralizing, securing, and controlling access to digital assets. What’s more, cloud-based discovery and file management through NETGEAR’s ReadyCLOUD simplifies the set-up experience and enables full ongoing management of data from any web-connected device.
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QNAP, Inc. today announced its new budget friendly Turbo NAS lineup TS-421U and TS-420U rackmount models for the workgroups and entry-level SMBs with fast-growing needs of economical network storage. The TS-421U features with Marvell CPU 2.0 GHz, and the TS-420U features with Marvell CPU 1.6 GHz. Both models operate with 1GB DDR3 RAM, and provide sustained high performance for daily routines in file storage, sharing, and data backup.
“The TS-421U and TS-420U satisfy the requirements of SMB and workgroup users who desire high performance networked storage with low acquisition cost but won’t compromise on reliability and features,"said Laurent Cheng, product manager of QNAP. “Theydeliver high performance coupled with a broad range of business-ready applications.”
The TS-421U and TS-420U are affordable yet high performance and reliable network storage solutions. Both models support iSCSI target service with Thin Provisioning, dual Gigabit LAN ports with failover and load balancing. The offerings of 2 USB 3.0 port and 2 e-SATA ports improve data transfer speed, and are beneficial to expanding the storage capacity or backing up the NAS data.
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Synology today released the official version of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2. “Synology has once again pushed the possibilities of NAS servers to new dimensions by releasing DSM 4.2,” said Vic Hsu, CEO of Synology Inc. “It helps businesses achieve agility as well as productivity in big data storage, and reshapes users’ multimedia experience with a suite of advanced features.” DSM 4.2 delivers:
Agile, reliable storage: DSM 4.2 features LUN Snapshot and Clone to provide up to 256 snapshots per LUN and near-instant duplication of virtual copies of a LUN, with no impact on system performance and minimal extra storage space. Synology High Availability (SHA) now supports more DiskStation/RackStation, and together with Global hot spare disks, ensures business continuity across enterprise and SMB environments. Two-step verification reinforces security with a pre-defined password and a one-time six-digit code.
Optimized manageability: RADIUS Server enhances Wi-Fi security and offers centralized authentication for access control. DNS Server allows users to own domain names of their choice and centrally host different services. Disk Usage Report visualizes storage usage for IT admins, generating storage reports to ensure best storage utilization. Server management is further simplified with Task Scheduler, which performs assigned tasks according to users’ pre-defined schedule. Moreover, Synology NAS can provide TFTP service to create a PXE environment, allowing users to boot up systems over the network.
