Seagate unveils Cheetah Storage Hard Drive

Seagate Technology has unveiled the Cheetah NS hard drive, developed for mission-critical enterprise network storage applications where the highest available storage capacity and the lowest power consumption are required. With its combination of features that include Seagate’s PowerTrim technology optimized for these environments, the Cheetah NS provides the lowest price-per-gigabyte and watts-per-gigabyte value for the enterprise.

Leveraged from the same platform as the 15K-rpm Cheetah 15K.5, the Cheetah NS is a new 10K-rpm hard drive that delivers best-in-class capacity, energy savings and performance when compared to standard 3.5-inch form factor 10K-rpm enterprise drives. It provides IT professionals with a choice in optimizing their enterprise systems for capacity or performance.

It also features up to 33 per cent more capacity at 400 gigabytes along with a 33-per cent reduction in power and cooling requirements. This additional capacity and reduced cooling profile in the data centre means that the Cheetah NS ultimately delivers the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise network storage applications.

Designed for the demanding workloads of the enterprise, the Cheetah NS is rated with a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of 1.4 million hours and is backed by Seagate’s trusted five-year warranty. Seagate is now shipping the Cheetah NS to leading OEM customers. It is expected to be available to the worldwide distribution channel during the third quarter of 2007.

Stellar Information Systems has made available the latest version of their flagship product, v3.0 Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software, and advanced recovery software designed for safe and non-destructive data recovery from hard disk or any removable media. This is the latest version of Stellar’s Phoneix FAT & NTFS.

The new version is powered by a new engine that scans drives in an efficient manner and at a much faster speed. V3.0 also enables faster file recovery with improved data transfer speeds and the recovered files can be saved in compressed form.

The new user interface of the software makes it easier to use. This streamlined screen layout helps the user to spend more time in recovering the data and gives better results at a faster pace. Another most important feature is the “File Preview” feature, which gives a fair idea about the recovery results. The “RAW Data Recovery” feature helps to recover 300 different file types, including MS-Office, web, images, movie, digital camera and application files, in spite of severe file corruption or overwritten.

The “Create an Image” feature of the latest version creates an image of hard disk drive, floppy disk, CD/DVD storage media and logical drives. However, it also simplifies this and helps to scan the image at a faster pace. The pricing of the software starts from $99 and is available online as well as through the company’s partner network across the globe. Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software, which supports Vista, is available in five different software interface languages – English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Symantec raising bar

Symantec Corp has introduced the Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Network Access Control 11.0 (codenamed Project Hamlet). Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention in a single agent delivering unmatched defence against malware for laptops, desktops and servers. It offers the benefit of essential security technologies (antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention and device control) via a single integrated agent and administered from a single management console.

It also features the new simplified management console, Network Access Control (NAC) enablement out of the box, and a range of training and support offerings to speed implementation for partners and customers.

In order to protect customers from both today’s threats and tomorrow’s emerging threats, Symantec Endpoint Protection includes proactive technologies that automatically analyze application behaviours and network communications to detect and actively block attacks. Customers are provided integrated antivirus, antispyware, firewall, host- and network-based intrusion prevention solutions (IPS), and application and device control into a single solution that is easy to install and easy to manage. Symantec Endpoint Protection reduces administrative costs associated with managing multiple endpoint security products by bringing together award-winning technology from Symantec, Sygate, Whole Security and Veritas. This provides operational efficiencies and gives customers a best-of-breed, yet fully integrated solution that works across platforms and is supported by a single vendor. It is also backed by Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network with eight Symantec Security Response Centres, four Symantec Security Operation Centres, 120- million systems and more than 40,000 sensors deployed in 180 countries.

“Symantec Endpoint Protection makes it easier for businesses to adopt a more effective multi-layered security solution and extends the power of antivirus to address today’s evolving threat landscape,” said Tom Kendra, Group President, Security and Data Management, Symantec. “It resets the bar for endpoint security, reducing overhead, time and costs so that customers can efficiently manage security and gain confidence that corporate assets and business are protected.”

The Taiwan Excellence Awards are given to products that achieve outstanding performance in the categories such as Research and Development, Design, Quality System, Market and Brand Awareness. KWorld Computer Inc., Ltd. has received three Excellence Awards in products like PlusTV Hybrid USB Stick, TVBox WS Pro 1680, and PlusTV All-in-One.

KWorld PlusTV Hybrid USB Stick has won several awards, including the recently received Taiwan Excellence Award. From the functional perspective, it enables users to watch analog TV by cable or antenna.

The second award KWorld has won is for the PlusTV TVBox 1680ex. This device supports optimum resolution of 1680x1050. It has been one of the leading products in the market, which supports 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10. The third award was received by All-in-One. Watch, record and edit from audio-visual sources such as FM radio, camcorder, DVD player and analog or digital TV. Bundled with Cyberlink PowerProducer 4 and PowerDirector 5, users are given the essential tools for making exciting home videos.