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SMART Storage Systems XceedIOPS2 Enterprise SSD Review
SMART Storage Systems (formerly SMART Modular) offers a robust lineup of enterprise SSD products. The XceedIOPS2 is their SandForce SF-2500-based solution that's geared toward blended enterprise use and backed up with the endurance of Toshiba eMLC NAND. Equipped with a SATA 6Gb/s interface, the XceedIOPS2 delivers up to 520MB/s sequential reads and 500 MB/s writes, with random I/O performance topping 60,000 IOPS. Layered on top is custom firmware, power protection features, and expertise from SMART's engineering team. Other highlights include AES 256-bit encryption, robust 2.5 million hour MTBF, a five year warranty and endurance up to 6PBW for the 400GB SSD.
February 22nd, 2012 by Lyle Smith
GreenBytes Solidarity SSD Storage Array Announced
GreenBytes has announced the Solidarity; a high availability (HA), globally optimized SSD storage array with capacities greater than its competitors. Designed to meet the needs of the small and medium enterprises, Solidarity features the GreenBytes Globally Optimized Operating System (GO OS), including inline real-time deduplication and compression. Additionally, it packages enterprise-class features into an SSD dual-controller and offers 3.5 TB (15 TB effective) to 13.5 TB (60 TB effective) capable of 120,000 4K IOPS.
February 22nd, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Fusion ioMemory Powering Social Media Gaming Giant Drecom
Fusion-io has announced that Japanese social gaming company Drecom is using Fusion ioMemory to power its MySQL database environment. After determining that traditional SSD solutions did not meet its performance and reliability requirements, Drecom turned to Fusion-io technology to alleviate the problem.
February 22nd, 2012 by Brian Beeler
Smart Storage Systems Optimus Ultra SAS SSD Released
Smart Storage Systems has expanded their line of enterprise SSDs with the Optimus Ultra SSD, their first to use Smart's proprietary Guardian Technology. This new SAS drive leverages consumer-grade MLC NAND but still achieves astounding endurance metrics, with support for 25 full drive writes per day, for the five year life of the drive. The Optimus Ultra is no slouch on the performance front either, delivering read/write performance of 500MB/s read (1,000MB/s in wide port) and 500MB/s write sequential, with random 4K speeds topping 100,000 IOPS read and 60,000 IOPS write and is available in capacities from 150GB to 1.2TB.
February 22nd, 2012 by Lyle Smith
Imation DataGuard R4 and T5R Backup Appliances Announced
Imation has announced the DataGuard; new purpose-built backup appliances that enable small and medium-sized businesses to protect their valuable information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard Model R4 and DataGuard Model T5R appliances use hard drives, removable RDX disk cartridges, replication, and cloud storage to deliver affordable enterprise-strength data protection and offer a practical solution for common SMB challenges when adding cloud capability as a new tier within a data protection and backup strategy.
February 21st, 2012 by Kevin OBrien
QNAP TS-879 Pro 10GbE Review
The QNAP TS-879 Pro is QNAP's latest entry in the SMB NAS space. The TS-879 Pro is an eight-bay unit that is designed to be used for backups, file sharing, mass storage and the like. While certainly tageted at the SMB, QNAP has loaded the TS-879 Pro with features that may broaden its appeal for VMware, Citrix and HyperV environments; a dual core Intel Core i3 3.3 GHz processor and support for optional 10 GbE for speeds up to 1,000MB/s and 100,000 IOPS.
February 21st, 2012 by Brian Beeler
OCZ-SANRAD VXL Enterprise Storage Accelerator Launched
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OCZ has announced the OCZ-SANRAD VXL enterprise storage accelerator, the first co-branded output of the SANRAD acquisition which occurred earlier this year. OCZ-SANRAD VXL is available now and is designed to deliver flash caching and acceleration with support for VMware ESX, HyperV and Citrix Xen. VXL allows either the Z-Drive R4 or Z-Drive R4 CloudServ to be utilized as an accelerator for traditional iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage.
February 21st, 2012 by Brian Beeler
Synology DiskStation DS1812+ Eight Bay NAS Released
Synology has released the DS1812+, their first eight-bay DiskStation. The freestanding NAS supports up to 32TB of storage natively with 4TB hard drives, along with up to another 40TB using two five-bay DX510 expansion units. While designed for the SMB user the DS1812+ still provides great support for products like VMware, Citrix Xen and Microsoft's Hyper-V while offering tremendous ease of use and flexibility with Synology's DiskStation Manager 3.2 software.
The Ultrastar SSD400M is Hitachi's effort to provide a serious contender in the burgeoning eMLC enterprise SSD space. The SSD400M offers all the pedigree that enterprise buyers could want, including not just Hitachi's longstanding leadership in the storage industry, but Intel's as well. The SSD400M leverages Intel's highest quality 25nm eMLC NAND and SSD processor technology, combined with Hitachi/Intel jointly engineered firmware. The resulting SSD400M carries Hitachi's brand name but is the result of a strong co-development effort.
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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 
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.