HP media server features Mac support

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released the MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 home servers, reports PC World.

MediaSmart devices are billed as 'all-in-one' home servers that act as a central point for network backups for home computers. They also act as media servers for any music and video users would like to share. Included software centralises the collection of media to keep it in one place.

HP touts the new MediaServer products' improved Mac OS X support: Administration media collection and disc recovery are all supported on the Mac. Users can now do “bare metal" restorations on Macs that have been backed up through Time Machine.

Dot Hill Systems, a provider of entry-level and mid-range storage solutions, has introduced the newest member of its RAIDCore software family of Windows and Linux server-based data protection solutions, targeted at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs), says Reuters.

Aided by today's multi-core CPUs, this RAIDCore solution establishes an entirely new category of RAID for storage inside of servers known as virtual RAID adapter (VRA) technology.

VRA-based solutions are enterprise-class data protection services and allow volume server OEMs or ODMs to offer built-in, high-end RAID functionality without the expense of a dedicated RAID-on-chip acceleration device.

Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, have unveiled a souped-up, NAND flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing and extreme-performance online transaction processing, states eWeek.

Dubbed the Exadata Database Machine Version 2, the new server package is a Sun server-and-storage combination loaded with lots of flash memory to run Oracle 11g Release 2 - the first flash-enabled database, Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison said.

The package is tuned for specific duty in scale-out data archiving and for high-performance transactional use. It employs standard Sun hardware components plus Sun's solid-state FlashFire memory cards to go with Oracle's Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2, Ellison said.