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Time Capsule. Automatic wireless backup for your Mac. Now available in 2TB and 3TB models.1

1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.

Time Capsule is a revolutionary backup appliance that can automatically back up everything on your Mac—wirelessly. It works with Time Machine in Mac OS X to give you constant, behind-the-scenes protection. Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support. It lets you easily share your broadband Internet connection, printer, hard drive, and more. You can even set up a separate Wi-Fi network for your guests.

Key Features:

Automatic wireless backup. Perfect with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard or later. Set it, then forget it. All the computers on your network can back up to Time Capsule. And new technologies in Time Capsule and refinements to Time Machine make backing up using Snow Leopard up to 60 percent faster than before.¹

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Coming soon, the new HP TouchPad is designed to work like you. Letting you connect, play, surf, and share more easily1. No barriers. No complications. Just a seamless flow from one thing to the next.

Next-level multitasking: Get a simple, natural way to move from one thing to the next. Have related activities automatically grouped together into card stacks.

Just type: Simply start typing to search the web, update your status, or begin just about anything1. Think about what you want to do, not how you have to do it.

100% web: Browse the full web at blazing speed with support for the latest web technologies, including Adobe Flash1,4.

Face-to-face: You can receive text messages, answer phone calls8 and have video conferencing on the large screen2,3,5. Plus, with touch-to-share capabilities8 move a website onto your HP Pre³ by simply touching the devices together.

Wireless printing: You can print quickly and wirelessly to all compatible networked HP printers7, work with Microsoft® Office files and collaborate with your colleagues using Google Docs or Box.net1.

Amazing sound: Download movies and TV shows, play games, view photos, read magazines and listen to music the way the artist intended, with Beats Audio™ – amazing sound quality, only from HP6.

The StorNext® M330 metadata controller appliance is ideal for rich media environments needing fast, sustained and reliable shared access to very large files across multiple platforms. The StorNext M330 creates shared data pools, eliminating the need for multiple copies, reducing storage space, simplifying workflows and enabling faster project completion.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Factory-installed and licensed software for simplified deployments and out-of-the-box reliability

• High-performance data sharing

• Collaboration across Linux, Windows, UNIX, and Mac OSX operating systems

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• Advanced reporting visually displays the health of the system for optimal performance and supportability

Visit the Quantum website for more information.

Give your teams the tools they need to increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and help safeguard systems and data with the Acrobat Savings Bundle.

The Acrobat Savings Bundle comes with:

Six licenses of Adobe® Acrobat® X Standard OR four licenses of Adobe® Acrobat® X Pro

Featuring powerful editing and commenting tools, Microsoft Office and SharePoint integration, audio, video, and rich media support, improved security and much more. One complimentary license of Adobe® Acrobat® X Suite.

Acrobat X Suite

Acrobat X Suite includes six powerful products — including Acrobat X Pro and Adobe® Photoshop® CS5. All of which can help your teams edit and improve digital images, deliver polished PDF communications, and transform static PowerPoint slides into compelling, self-running presentations.

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Dot Hill announced its AssuredSAN 3000 Series storage arrays are now available with 3 Terabyte disk drives, becoming one of the first to bring customers up to 36TB of data capacity in a 2U entry level system, as well as upgraded AssuredRemote™ replication features.

Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN™ product and solutions combine high performance and capacity storage arrays with innovative and comprehensive storage management allowing for instant Store, Back up and Restore. The AssuredSAN family of products is targeted at storage administrator looking for features and benefits that can ease the IT workload.

3000 Family iSCSI Systems

Advanced iSCSI SAN storage systems deliver performance for demanding applications like server virtualization, complete with DR software, at affordable price points.

• 3320C and 3330C – 1Gb iSCSI storage scaling to 24TB
• 3320S and 3330S – 1Gb iSCSI Storage with integrated Data Protection Software
• 3420C and 3430C – Affordable 10Gb iSCSI storage, capacity up to 24TB
• 3420S and 3430 S – 10Gb iSCSI system with integrated Data Protection Software

Visit the Dot Hill website for more information.