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XBMC.org released a public statement congratulating the folks over at OpenELEC for releasing OpenELEC 3.0.0. This release brings XBMC Frodo 12.1 with all its bells and whistles to the embedded OS.

QNAP® , Inc. today announced its new budget friendly Turbo NAS lineup TS-421U and TS-420U rackmount models for the workgroups and entry-level SMBs with fast-growing needs of economical network storage. The TS-421U features with Marvell CPU 2.0 GHz, and the TS-420U features with Marvell CPU 1.6 GHz. Both models operate with 1GB DDR3 RAM, and provide sustained high performance for daily routines in file storage, sharing, and data backup.

XBMC Frodo has been released. With it, the development team has named the next version and returned to a predictable development cycle. Team XBMC has voted and the next version of XBMC, XBMC 13, will have the name Gotham!.

Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that in aggregate, its customers have purchased and deployed more than an exabyte of storage with Drobo systems. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, or 1 million terabytes, or 1 billion gigabytes or the equivalent of 245 million DVDs. Since the first Drobo system was introduced in mid-2007, the company has sold approximately 250,000 systems to creative professionals, prosumers, small businesses and enterprises.

Synology today released the official version of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2. “Synology has once again pushed the possibilities of NAS servers to new dimensions by releasing DSM 4.2,” said Vic Hsu, CEO of Synology Inc. “It helps businesses achieve agility as well as productivity in big data storage, and reshapes users’ multimedia experience with a suite of advanced features.”

Many of us are fans of XBMC and the integration with various platforms like Android and IOS. With the updates to IOS 6.1, Apple TV had been unable to run the XBMC app (as well as other non Apple related media center). Well, today is your lucky day. XBMC dev, Memphiz, has remedied this and XBMC now supports the update.

Today, Thecus announced that they have added a slew of Hitachi drives to their compatibility matrix.  Many of the Thecus models have been expanded to include these drives.  Thecus maintains that you keep your NAS firmware up to date to benefit from the added compatibilities as well as other features.

QNAP has announced that their TS-x69 Pro and L series will run XBMC. The TS-669 PRO proved to be a good NAS and having a built in HDMI port had to account for something... eventually.. Unfortunately, the addition of XBMC came after our review. The setup had worked well with other vendors, and I have full confidence that QNAP is able to pull it off. QNAP has gone beyond what other vendors have done an added a QRemote application for those of you with Apple devices. This allows you to go beyond the standard XBMC remote app by integrating Youtube, Google Chrome, and MyNAS (The Turbo NAS web portal)

Synology ® Inc. today launched VisualStation VS240HD, a cost-effective surveillance solution designed for ease of multi-channel viewing on local HDMI displays.

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security and storage solutions, and Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced a joint relationship that will bring cloud accessibility and storage to Drobo users. Through this relationship, the Drobo 5N will be integrated with Copy™, a Barracuda Service, allowing users to access shared files from any location and any device.