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Drobo S offers an unbeatable combination of automated protection, instant and perpetual expansion, and high-performance making it ideal for all of your primary and backup storage needs.

Drobo S protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. It can hold up to five hot-swappable drives, for on-the-fly drive capacity expansion with zero downtime.

Drobo S connects to Windows, Mac, and Linux2 systems and supports NTFS, HFS+, EXT3, and FAT32 file formats. Everyone can take advantage of simple, powerful, complete BeyondRAID data protection.

Visit the Drobo website for more information.

Designed, tested and built by NVIDIA for the Mac Pro, Quadro 4000 for Mac gives professionals the highest performance in its class, most advanced capabilities and greatest reliability. With Quadro your work flows – design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time.

• Cuda parallel processing cores: 256
• Frame buffer memory: 2 GB GDDR5
• Memor y interface: 256-bit
• Memor y bandwidth: 89.6 GB/s

Visit the NVIDIA website for more information.

Watch satellite TV wirelessly on any Mac, PC or iPad

Watch and record free-to-view satellite television on any Mac or PC in the house, in full HD. If your home has an existing Wi-Fi network, you can watch live satellite TV wirelessly on a portable computer anywhere in your home.

EyeTV Netstream Sat enables your entire family to share one TV tuner device, and it delivers a high-definition TV picture to every room. There’s no need to connect a satellite dish and TV tuner dongle to each computer! Simply place EyeTV Netstream Sat near your existing satellite connection and connect it to your router. EyeTV Netstream Sat receives DVB-S2 and streams the TV signal via your Ethernet or home Wi-Fi network.

Features

• Stream free-to-view satellite TV (DVB-S2 or Freesat) to the computers on your home network
• Enjoy a crystal clear, high-definition television picture on your computer’s high-resolution display
• Compatible with both Mac and PC
• Watch TV wirelessly on a portable computer or iPad if you have a Wi-Fi network
• Stream live TV over the home network to an iPad – even when your computers are turned off
• As a network device, it does not have to be installed near your computers

Visit the El Gato website for more information.

Customers, press, and partners have expressed concern over Apple’s decision to end of life Xserve. There has been much speculation over what this announcement means for the future of Mac OS, of XSAN and of the Apple data stored in StorNext. After this decision, Quantum has announced that they will continue to support Apple XSAN and StorNext in the market place as there was no indication of any changes in XSAN or Mac OS.

For  more information call Trams on 0845 330 1600.

LaCie recognizes the importance of bringing USB 3.0 performance and plug & play capability to the Mac world. By developing an exclusive USB 3.0 driver for Mac, LaCie is proud to demonstrate its industry leadership and longtime commitment to Mac users.

By downloading the driver, and using it in conjunction with our USB 3.0 expansion cards, it’s simple to get USB 3.0 speed and performance on your Mac. Check your compatibility with USB 3.0, install the peripherals, and download the driver.

With USB 3.0, you get:

• The ultimate in performance
• Up to 130MB/s* for single hard drives
• Up to 220MB/s** for dual hard drives
• Real plug & play capability
• Bus-powered capability
• Optimized power efficiency
• USB 2.0 compatibility

Visit the LaCie website for more information.