January 28th, 2013 by Josh Linden
Intel SSD 525 mSATA Introduced
Intel has announced availability of its SSD 525 storage solution, with an mSATA form factor. Intel’s SSD 525 drives utilize 25nm MLC NAND memory to provide PCIe storage with a footprint one-eighth the size of previous-generation 2.5-inch hard drives. Intel’s SSD 525 series will be available later this quarter in 30, 60, 90, and 240GB capacities, with 120GB and 180GB capacities already shipping.
January 28th, 2013 by Josh Linden
STEC Announces 2TB SAS and PCIe SSDs and Updated EnhanceIO Caching Software
STEC has announced forthcoming 2TB s840 SSDs with an SAS interface as well as new 2TB s1120 PCIe accelerator SSDs, each offered in versions specified for unlimited writes. STEC has also released a significant update to its drive-agnostic EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software that optimizes virtualization applications in Windows and Linux environments.
January 22nd, 2013 by Josh Linden
Netgear Announces Three 10GbE ProSafe SMB Switches
Netgear has announced three new 10 Gigabit switch solutions for small and medium business networks with fewer than 500 users. 10 Gigabit network connectivity is still unusual for SMB due to the expense of 10 Gigabit-capable equipment and a lack of solutions designed for smaller deployments. Each of Netgear's new solutions utilizes 10GBASE-T Copper and ranges in cost from $125 per port to $250 per port.
January 22nd, 2013 by Josh Linden
Micron P400m Data Center SSDs Announced
Micron has announced the availability of the new P400m SSD, Micron’s first 25nm MLC NAND SSD to implement the company's Extended Performance and Enhanced Reliability Technology (XPERT) technology, which improves SSD performance and longevity. Offered in 100, 200, and 400GB capacities, the P400m is manufactured and tested entirely by Micron and is rated for ten drive fills per day for five years.
January 17th, 2013 by Josh Linden
Petabyte X-IO ISE Station XL Storage Solutions Now Available
X-IO Technologies has announced the second generation ISE Station XL, a pre-configured 1 petabyte storage solution that offers over 1 million IOPS across four 44U racks. According to X-IO, this release reflects the company's commitment to tuning the ISE Station product line to reduce cost-of-deployment by at least a third.
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Dell Announces Cloud Client Computing for Retail
Dell is now accepting proof-of-concept requests to implement Cloud Client Computing for Retail, an in-store cloud environment. Cloud Client Computing for Retail is made up of three modules: thin and mobile endpoints with and without POS peripherals; on premise desktop virtualization infrastructure; and cloud-based desktop virtualization infrastructure. Dell’s recent acquisitions of Wyse, SonicWALL, and Quest allow the company to offer an end-to-end retail cloud solution that includes for the first time virtualized point-of-sale (POS) systems.
January 17th, 2013 by Josh Linden
Symantec NetBackup Certified for SAP HANA
Organizations planning for big data and data analytics can be faced with new personnel requirements to support big data IT infrastructure. Symantec today announced its NetBackup solution has been certified by SAP to provide big data backup and recovery integration with the SAP HANA platform, allowing NetBackup customers to unify backup across SAP HANA solutions.
January 16th, 2013 by Josh Linden
Fusion-io Announces General Availability of ioScale PCIe Flash
ioScale is Fusion-io’s half-length ioMemory PCIe drive, available in capacities up to 3.2TB with a single controller. A small form factor server outfitted with ioScale cards can reach 12.8TB or more, a typical application for ioScale in the datacenter. In the past, ioScale has only been available for order in the thousands of units, but will now be available for minimum orders of one hundred.
January 15th, 2013 by Josh Linden
EMC Announces Joint Storage Solution with Syncplicity
EMC has announced beta availability of a new online enterprise file sharing solution that integrates its Isilon scale-out NAS storage with Syncplicity's cloud storage technology. The solution features an on-premise Isilon storage option capable of growing from 10s of terabytes to 10s of petabytes in order to provide cloud access to corporate data while retaining IT control over where files reside.
January 14th, 2013 by Josh Linden
EMC Announces Hardware and Software Updates for the VMAX Family
EMC today announced comprehensive updates across its VMAX family of enterprise storage arrays, including a new version of EMC’s Enginuity software and a number of upgrades for the VMAX 10K that improve performance in virtualized environments and incorporate features previously only available on the VMAX 20K and VMAX 40K. According to EMC, this suite of updates makes the VMAX 10K twice as powerful as its predecessor as well as the highest-performing solution of its class in the industry.
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The Buffalo DriveStation DDR is a USB 3.0 external storage device for both PCs and Macs that features 2TB and 3TB capacities and is designed to deliver greater performance than standard external drives by offering an additional 1GB cache for accelerated transfer speeds. The DriveStation DDR also includes the Buffalo Tools software suite for Windows which is designed to boost performance and enable users to backup their content and manage their device effectively. Additionally, DriveStation DDR is compatible with Time Machine and users can use Time Machine with DriveStation Axis to back up Macs.
The Samsung SSD 840 is an entry-level consumer SSD and is the first to be made with TLC (Triple Level Cell) NAND. This differs from the MLC (Multi Level Cell) NAND used in every other consumer SSD. Up to this point, TLC NAND has only been used in less critical applications like USB thumb drives and memory cards, but its acceptance in the SSD space is emerging in large part because of the reduced cost of the NAND packages. Of course the tradeoff for the lowered price-point is endurance, but as consumers are coming to accept, most of them really don't write all that much data to their drives. The Samsung SSD 840 is built off of the same platform as the Samsung SSD 840 Pro with the Samsung MDX triple-core ARM 9 controller which is clocked at 300MHz and leverages Samsung's NAND and proprietary firmware.
The Unitrends Recovery-943 Backup Appliance has 97TB of raw capacity and robust connectivity options, and it incorporates standard features found on existing Unitrends Recovery appliances such as backup, archiving, instant recovery, and disaster recovery functionality. In the past, these recovery appliances have been configured and marketed to small and medium businesses. These smaller organizations face complex backup requirements and don't have the dedicated resources and expertise needed to apply multi-platform backup-administration and as such have been Unitrends target-market. The Recovery-943 is however a step-up from previous Unitrends options with three times the storage capacity of its predecessor and the ability to scale the functionality of the Unitrends RecoveryOS to the enterprise market.
The OWC Envoy Pro EX is a USB 3.0 bus-powered portable storage device that offers capacities up to 480GB and is pre-formatted and primarily designed for Apple systems, though PC users can reformat and use the drive as well. The OWC Envoy Pro is the bare unit, while the EX models add SSD storage using 
HP has been going through a transformation recently when it comes to the 
The WD My Passport Ultra, announced today, is a USB 3.0 portable storage device with capacities from 500GB up to 2TB that features local and cloud backups. The My Passport Ultra includes software for automatic backups to the host system or to the My Passport Ultra as well as the ability to use Dropbox to backup to the cloud. The Ultra, WD's latest My Passport iteration, also enables users to setup password protection and hardware encryption to keep data stored on the device secure from unauthorized access. Cosmetically-focused, the WD My Passport Ultra is available in four different colors (titanium, red, blue and black).
