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New EonStor DS G7

Sabine — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:24:31 +0000

Infortrend now offers EonStor DS G7 solutions to enable enterprises to easily meet their high-performance requirements. Delivering throughput of up to 5,500 MB/s Read and up to 3,000 MB/s Write and supporting up to 700K Read IOPS, EonStor DS G7 solutions are ideal for demanding applications.

Excellent scalability enables users to flexibly increase capacity of their storage solution. Featuring support for different types of expansion enclosures including high-density enclosures, capacity of the EonStor DS G7 solutions can be increased to 240 disk drives in 30U of rack space.

EonStor DS G7 Key Benefits:

Excellent throughput and IOPS performance
Ideal for mission-critical applications such as HD media editing, cloud services, HPC
Enhanced data backup performance and shorter data backup time
Scalability up to 240 drives
Capacity scaling with high-density expansion enclosures for reduced storage footprint and lower TCO

EonStor DS G7 solutions now include:

EonStor DS S24F-R2850/S24F-G2850: 8Gb/s FC host connectivity, dual-redundant or single controller configuration, 4U/24-bay form factor, scalability up to 232 drives.
EonStor DS S16F-R2850/S16F-G2850: 8Gb/s FC host connectivity, dual-redundant or single controller configuration, 3U/16-bay form factor, scalability up to 240 drives.
EonStor DS S12F-R2850/S12F-G2850: 8Gb/s FC host connectivity, dual-redundant or single controller configuration, 2U/12-bay form factor, scalability up to 228 drives.

Visit the Infortrend website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

Elevate your Backup

Sabine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:22:25 +0000

CrashPlan Pro for Business

CrashPlan PROe works quietly in the background on all laptops and desktops, so while CrashPlan does its work, you can do yours. Most users never even notice it’s there. But when they need a file restored, they’re happy to know that the easy-to-use interface allows them to restore files quickly on their own.

Supporting the major operating systems for Mac, Windows and Linux, CrashPlan PROe lets users back up and restore to and from any machine. With just one product to buy, support and maintain, IT can offer greater backup coverage without doubling-up on software overhead.

Going beyond all the traditional security measures you’d expect (like 448-bit encryption), CrashPlan PROe also enables integration with your company’s Active Directory to support LDAP integration and SSL.

Visit the CrashPlan website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

New mMedia by Active Storage

Sabine — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:28:46 +0000

180TB of storage in 4U of rackspace!

mMedia is more than a collection of components, it’s a complete media creation storage platform that stores and manages content from ingest to archive.

The combination of mRAID and ActiveSAN can meet any on-line media production challenge. Nothing can scale to more users, greater resolutions, or higher throughputs, all with the lowest latency and easiest deployment and management using all the production tools and asset management software you are using today.

mRAID is unlike any storage you have used in a creative workflow. It’s fast, smart, scalable and easy. Best of all, it’s built on industry standards utilizing the same rock-solid Linux foundation of the Active Storage ActiveRAID. And with thousands of ActiveRAIDs in the field powering the top names in post production and broadcast, you can rely on mRAID to deliver the same level of highly available operation and on-going reliability.

mVault – its all about content, your content and where you keep it, and how you keep it safe. mVault is quite simply the very-high-density storage expansion component of the mMedia platform.

mMedia is powerful yet simple. As a building block technology, mMedia provides all the components needed to build end-to-end workflows. And beause the mRAID is the heart of mMedia, future applications can meet future needs.

For more information, contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt™

Sabine — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:12:53 +0000

The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt™ Series heralds a new era for storage performance. Featuring a preconfigured RAID0 striped set with optional hard disks or SSDs through the 10Gb/s Thunderbolt interface, it delivers astonishing transfer rates. Reach read speeds of up to 480MB/s with the SSD model, and up to 190MB/s with the hard disk model. Now you can truly get the power of fibre channel rackmount storage—in a portable solution!

You can even daisy chain multiple Little Big Disks together to increase overall transfer rates. The more products you chain together, the higher performance you get. Daisy chain four Little Big Disks with SSDs to maximize Thunderbolt interface capabilities and reach transfer rates of around 800MB/s (up to 782MB/s with the hard disk version).

Visit the LaCie website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

CS5.5 ‘20%-off’ Migration Promotion EXTENDED!

Sabine — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:00:19 +0000

The promotion that launched on October 3rd offering a 20% discount on upgrades and upsells to Creative Suite 5.5 from CS2/3/4 suite and individual products has been extended until 15th March 2012.

Whether you’re using CS2, CS3 or CS4, you can take advantage of upgrade pricing for CS5.5 right now and get the latest software capabilities and performance.

Discover how upgrading to CS5.5 – now with simpler Enterprise deployment – can help your organisation gain a competitive advantage with the ability to:

Design eye-catching print content, immersive digital magazines, elegant eBooks and standards-based websites, plus bring your organization’s designs to life on smartphones and tablets, including the iPad, Android and the BlackBerry® PlayBook.
Deliver rich browser-based content and interactive applications for any device with leading HTML5 and Adobe Flash® authoring tools.
Produce your organisation’s best work more quickly than ever before with high-performance tools and game-changing innovations.
Streamline deployment, tighten security and extend product functionality for maximum efficiency gains

Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

All Upgrades One Price

Sabine — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:54:58 +0000

Upgrade from any version to QuarkXPress 9 form only £279.00 ex VAT.

This offer has been extended until 31st January.

With QuarkXPress 9.2 you can now:

Create a new project specifically for ePUB export — or convert an existing print layout
Add audio, videos and hyperlinks to your ePUP e-book
Re-order ePUB components by dragging-and-dropping within the Reflow Tagging Palette

Plus, with QuarkXPress 9.2, App Studio templates now

Support iOS 5 Newsstand
Meet new Apple guidelines for iCloud storage

Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update

Sabine — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:30:48 +0000

This update addresses a fan noise issue affecting a small number of Apple Thunderbolt Displays and improves stability.

The updater application will be installed in the Utilities folder inside the Application folder and will be launched automatically when you close this installer.

Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

This update addresses a fan noise issue affecting a small number of Apple Thunderbolt Displays and improves stability.
The updater application will be installed in the Utilities folder inside the Application folder and will be launched automatically when you close this installer.
Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

Visit the Apple website for more information

New! globalSAN v.5 + Xtarget Storage Server

Sabine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:28:26 +0000

Xtarget Storage Server for OS X is the first multi-protocol solution for sharing Thunderbolt, FireWire, USB, and Fibre Channel storage over your existing network. Utilizing Xsan or iSANmp allows easy cross-platform sharing over the LAN and WAN!

Xtarget (beta) is new software that enables you to turn your Intel Mac into an iSCSI storage server… you connect direct-attached storage devices (like Thunderbolt, eSATA, Firewire, etc.) to your Mac, fire up globalSAN Xtarget, and tell it which devices you want to share over blazing fast iSCSI — GbE or 10GbE.

For more information call us on 020 7820 7111

Trams – Lowering the cost of production

Sabine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:21:12 +0000

Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

Trams – Reducing costs with file based workflow

Sabine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:18:47 +0000

Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.