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Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400S.B Enterprise SSD Released
Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise SSD, the industry's first to use 25nm SLC NAND. The second generation SSD400S.B leverages a SAS 6Gb/s interface and supports Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification, which helps protect data and reduces the cost associated with SSD reuse and eventual retirement. Hitachi also offers options self-encrypting drive technology for those who need additional security.
Read moreFebruary 8th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
JetStor 724iF Hybrid Fibre Channel/iSCSI RAID Systems Optimize Connectivity Costs
Supporting both Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks simultaneously, the AC&NC JetStor 724iF Hybrid RAID system decreases connectivity costs and simplifies management of storage networks. Servers requiring high-bandwidth access, including database applications, can now easily and more efficiently share storage access through inexpensive iSCSI connections and at greater distances.
February 8th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 Improvements Announced
IBM has announced several key improvements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, as well as a new iPhone app that allows people monitor their XIV storage environment wherever they go.
With SSD caching, the most frequently used data is stored on solid state memory and is placed between the system memory and hard drives. Because SSDs use no moving parts, the storing and retrieving of data is accomplished with virtually no latency and improves data access speed by orders of magnitude. Additionally, SSD cache requires no separate tier to manage.
February 8th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Texas Memory Systems Teams With NEVEX Virtual Technologies to Supercharge Virtual Applications SSD Storage Devices
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced their partnership with NEVEX Virtual Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of application optimized caching solutions, to develop joint solutions that will supercharge the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications implemented on TMS’ Flash-based SSD storage devices.
February 7th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Kroll Ontrack Announces New SSD Recovery Capabilities
Kroll Ontrack, provider of data recovery solutions, information management, and legal technologies products and services, have announced that it has developed unique, proprietary capabilities to drastically improve the quality of data recovery from SSDs in less than a quarter of the time usually required. Engineers at Kroll Ontrack had to overcome a number of obstacles associated with flash media to develop these capabilities.
February 7th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Clevo P270WM From AVADirect Features Intel X79 Chipset and RAID Capabilities
AVADirect, provider of custom built notebooks, is the first to offer Clevo's P270WM mobile gaming notebook for those who need gaming performance on the go. The Clevo's P270WM is based off of the Intel X79 chipset and Sandy Bridge-E processors giving users an increase of 35 to 50 percent in performance featuring optional RAID and three storage bays.
February 6th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
EMC VFCache Server Caching Solution Announced
EMC Corporation has announced the EMC VFCache, a new server Flash caching solution. VFCache and EMC Flash-enabled storage systems significantly improve application performance by leveraging intelligent software and PCIe Flash technology; tests have resulted in increased throughput of up to 3X while reducing latency by 60%. With this announcement, EMC is extending Flash technology servers and developing the benefits of PCIe Flash technology from edge-case social media and internet to mainstream mission critical applications including Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. As a result, databases, OLTP, email, Web, and reporting—any read-intensive workloads with cacheable working sets—will benefit from PCIe Flash.
February 5th, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform Chosen by BYU
Nexsan has announced the department of computer science at Brigham Young University (the US’s largest religious university and the third largest private university in the country) has integrated Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform to support its multi-purpose storage infrastructure. The Flexible Storage Platform was chosen to support the department’s virtualized operating environment with high capacity storage for both structured and unstructured data because of its high performance, reliability, efficiency and value.
The Intel SSD 520 is targeted at the client user, but with the backing of the Intel brand and the quality of engineering that went into this SSD, it's definitely going to creep into the enterprise as well. As seen in our 
The Intel SSD 520, code name Cherryville, is the latest consumer SSD offering from Intel which breaks a tremendous amount of new ground for the company and the SSD industry at large. The big highlight is that Intel has transitioned to a SandForce processor in the SSD 520, away from the Marvell processor used in the SSD 510. Intel claims the SSD 520 to be their fastest SSD to date and there's little reason to doubt them. With the highest quality 25nm IMFT NAND available and the speedy SandForce processor combined, the SATA 6Gb/s SSD 520 cranks out quoted sequential read speeds of 550 MB/s and writes of 520 MB/s.
The Dell XPS 17 L702X is a desktop replacement style notebook that is powered by an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and Nvidia dedicated graphics. The XPS 17 L702X can be purchased and configured on 
We've already looked at the Intel SSD 520 a few different ways in our client 
Testing enterprise hardware and software requires an evaluation platform beyond consumer desktops. StorageReview understands that companies want hardware they send out for review tested in the same environment they are positioning it for and to that end we have deployed a pair of Lenovo ThinkServer RD240's for enterprise reviews. The RD240 is a 2U rack-mountable server that is designed for larger business tasks; however, its price is targeted for small and medium businesses (SMBs) making it a smart choice for businesses looking for low cost alternatives but want to maintain high levels of data protection at the same time. The RD240 gives several levels of advanced data protection, inducing RAID data cache and available battery backup and low-cost storage. This ThinkServer is no slouch though, as its powered by two Intel Xeon X5650 processors and packed with SAS/SATA 6.0Gb/s gear from LSI.