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by Kevin OBrien

OCZ Nocti mSATA SSD Review

OCZ's mSATA SSDs have long been used in OEM and other specialized applications. mSATA SSDs are finding a much wider audience now though, as notebook, tablet and even desktop PC vendors are finding creative ways to use the diminutive in size, but not speed, SSDs. Whether used as a boot drive, primary storage or caching mechanism, the OCZ Nocti has quite a bit of flexibility. Available in capacities from 30GB to 120GB, the Nocti offers top-end performance of up to 280 MB/s read speeds, 260 MB/s writes and random write 4K IOPS of 32,500, essentially saturating the mSATA 3Gb/s interface speed.

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by Brian Beeler

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.

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by Lyle Smith

Riverbed Granite Announced

Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation of edge applications, servers and storage to the data center, while delivering services to the edge of the enterprise as if they were local. Edge-VSI is also complementary to WAN optimization by accelerating performance for applications and use cases that are not addressed by any WAN optimization approach today.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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