Home » Tag: storage

Seagate Introduces BlackArmor Family of Storage Solutions for Small Business

seagate ba nas110 rightangle hi Seagate Introduces BlackArmor Family of Storage Solutions for Small Business

Seagate has announced a complete portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime under the BlackArmor product line. For model available immediately after the release with key highlights on:

  • Designed as a simple, easy-to-install and easy-to-manage solution for businesses with little or no IT support, BlackArmor storage solutions are perfect for small office environments with up to 50 employees as well as self-employed professionals.
  • The new solutions – the BlackArmor NAS 440/420, BlackArmor NAS 220 and BlackArmor NAS 110 network storage servers – share the same suite of robust backup applications for business professionals and home office use.
  • With features like automated full-system backup and SafetyDrill+ software, a bare metal recovery feature, the BlackArmor family of storage solutions delivers enhanced data protection.

Full product detail is available on the press release below

Seagate Introduces BlackArmor Family of Storage Solutions for Small Business

New Products include Networked Storage Options to Store, Backup,and Secure Business Critical Data

MALAYSIA, 4 August, 2010 — Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to provide small businesses with solutions that meet both current and future storage needs, Seagate, the world’s leading provider of storage solutions, today announced a complete portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime. The Seagate BlackArmor product line is the family name for a suite of network-attached, workstation and portable storage solutions designed to meet the digital asset management needs of small business professionals. The new solutions – the BlackArmor NAS 440/420, BlackArmor NAS 220 and BlackArmor NAS 110 network storage servers – share the same suite of robust backup applications for business professionals and home office use.

Designed as a simple, easy-to-install and easy-to-manage solution for businesses with little or no IT support, BlackArmor storage solutions are perfect for small office environments with up to 50 employees as well as self-employed professionals. Additionally, the BlackArmor line of solutions provides software management tools that are compatible across the family, providing a consistent user experience and future growth path with minimal training or the need for additional support.

Security, Accessibility and Peace of Mind

With features like automated full-system backup and SafetyDrill+ software, a bare metal recovery feature, the BlackArmor family of storage solutions delivers enhanced data protection. Since BlackArmor external drives automatically create an exact copy of everything on your PC, SafetyDrill+ software is ready to restore your entire system if a data disaster such as a virus attack, hardware failure, or PC crash were to occur. SafetyDrill+ software comes preloaded on all BlackArmor products and does not require any additional installation. For increased data protection of backed-up files, the software also features an AES 256-bit government-grade encryption.

“For over 30 years, Seagate has been the trusted provider of reliable storage technology to companies of all sizes,” said BanSeng Teh, vice president and managing director of Seagate Asia Pacific and Japan. “The BlackArmor family of products gives small businesses, those with home offices, and more advanced recreational users an easy-to-use yet robust storage solution at an affordable price point.”

The Seagate BlackArmor family:

  • BlackArmor NAS 440/420 Storage Servers: The Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440/420 storage servers are designed to provide optimum uptime and data integrity to ensure business continuity for up to 50 networked computers[1]. Each is a four-bay NAS device, populated with Seagate disk drives. In the case of the BlackArmor NAS 420, it comes with two drives in a four drive chassis. The BlackArmor NAS 440 comes fully populated with four drives. Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 network storage servers help companies ensure they operate efficiently, while keeping their business data secure, available, accessible and protected. Seagate’s years of experience developing robust, secure storage solutions offers customers the right blend of features to meet immediate and future business needs:
  • BlackArmor NAS 220 Storage Server: Delivering centralized network storage and secure remote access in a compact design, the BlackArmor NAS 220 storage server is a small-business-specific network attached storage solution designed to provide data protection for up to 20 PCs. With up to 4TB of shared storage capacity, the BlackArmor NAS 220 storage server can meet the needs of small offices and self-employed professionals as well as home networks.
  • BlackArmor NAS 110 Storage Server: Designed to provide centralized storage and media streaming for up to 10 PCs, the BlackArmor NAS 110 storage server includes support for Windows Server 2008, wiki server support and up to 2TB of capacity, making accessing and sharing content easy for home networks and small offices.

Availability and Pricing

All products are available now through channel partners and select retailers at the following manufacturers’ suggested retail prices (MSRP, including tax):

  • Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 network servers – four-bay, four drive configuration : MYR 3,199 for 4TB, MYR 5,999 for 8TB
  • Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 network servers – four-bay, two drive configuration : MYR 2,099 for 2TB
  • Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220 network servers – two-bay, two drive configuration : MYR 1,299 for 2TB, MYR 1,999 for 4TB
  • Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 network servers – one-bay, one drive configuration : MYR 699 for 1TB, MYR 1,199 for 2TB

More detailed information about the Seagate BlackArmor family of solutions can be found at http://media.seagate.com/seagate-blackarmor-media-kit/.

Admin 4 August 2010 gadget & hardware , , , No Comments

Windows Live Skydrive needs better files uploader

Undeniably,  Skydrive is great application from Microsoft. The huge 25GB free online storage is really tempting for those who want to keep and sharing items online. Butskydrive upload Windows Live Skydrive needs better files uploader it is lacking very critical feature that should provide greater usability; better files uploader.

The way files are being uploaded should be improved. Just take a look at the screen shot. It is quite troublesome when at any time you can only upload 5 files, whereas hundreds more in wait.

Instead of using very ‘traditional’ way of uploading files, why not invent something like  Facebook’s java style uploader or  Flickr’s desktop uploader which can upload lots of files simulateneouly.

For regular users, they’ll be more than happy if such tool available in the near future. It saves them time and effort!

Skydrive is a free application with a great feature, but without great usability, it could only attract first timer for a while before rival (such as  GDrive) take them away.

Admin 2 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , 5 Comments

Windows Live Skydrive storage now increased to 25GB, and it was simplified too.

skydrive size Windows Live Skydrive storage now increased to 25GB, and it was simplified too.

Microsoft keep tuning its Windows Live service in order to attract bigger audience to use this.This is including increasing the size of its Windows Live Skydrive to 25Gb from 5GB when it was first released last November 08. With the significant increase in size (5 times bigger), it surely boost SkyDrive popularity as one of the biggest free online storage.

Skydrive is obviously the cream of Windows Live service. The rest of the services such as ‘space’, ‘photo’ are just another addition to what was already offered around on the net. Who need ‘space’ when you have Facebook, or ‘photo‘ when you have Flickr??That’s where the extra storage play its role here. More space meaning more items(photos, files, documents) that you can keep here.

But don’t you think the Skydrive is lack of ‘social’ aura? Who will view or comments the photos?? The bigger problem is, did any of your friends using Windows Live? No friends meaning no social interaction, which is something that Microsoft attempting to build.

It might works as an online personal storage at the end of the day. 25Gb is whole lot of space when old notebooks such as mine has only lowly 30GB space. So instead of spending another buck on external hard drive, why not fully utilizing SkyDrive to keep my collection of photos that keep growing ever since  Canon accompanying our outing during the weekend.

Beside the size, Microsoft also trying to simplify the way users uploading the files into the Skydrive. Now it provide users with several entry point to access the files. And all files are now accessible via skydrive link.

I wish Skydrive is as popular(and feature rich) as Flickr, so I don’t have to spend $25 to upgrade my Flickr account to Pro icon smile Windows Live Skydrive storage now increased to 25GB, and it was simplified too.

Admin 7 January 2009 internet tool , , , , , 1 Comment
Page 1 of 11