February 12th, 2013 by Lyle Smith
Intel Cache Acceleration Software 2.0 Announced
Intel has announced its new Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux, which prioritizes application performance, providing SSD-levels of speed without migration costs as well as built-in data integrity for Intel’s SSD data center family of products. The Linux version will be generally available within 30 days as an enterprise subscription and open source release while complementing the existing Intel CAS 2.0 for Windows (available now).
February 12th, 2013 by Brian Beeler
EMC Launches Continuous Availability Advisory Services
EMC has announced Continuous Availability Advisory Services for organizations evaluating deployment of or improvement to their continuous availability (CA) architecture. CA provides redundancy for organizations that have mission critical applications that need to be able to sustain multiple types of hardware and infrastructure outages while still providing steady performance and uptime. The new service combines EMC's Global Services and VPLEX to eliminate outages while providing best practices for storage virtualization and disaster recovery.
February 12th, 2013 by Lyle Smith
Zetta.Net DataProtect for NetApp Announced
Zetta.net has announced the general availability of Zetta.net DataProtect for NetApp, their new cloud-based offsite backup, replication, and disaster recovery solution for environments that use NetApp filers. The new solution does not need any additional hardware, tapes, or third party software, allowing organizations that rely on NetApp to deploy a reliable and affordable offsite backup solution in less than 30 minutes.
Read moreFebruary 6th, 2013 by Lyle Smith
Imation Nexsan NST5000 Updated
Imation has announced the latest version of the Nexsan NST5000 unified hybrid storage system is now available, which addresses the increasing demand of enterprise-class storage capabilities in small to midsize enterprises. It also provides greater performance at an affordable price point for a variety of primary storage applications such as databases, virtual servers, and public and private cloud environments.
February 4th, 2013 by Josh Linden
EMC Greenplum Appliance-Based Unified Analytics Platform Now Available
EMC’s new Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) Unified Analytics Platform Edition enables analysis of structured and unstructured data with Greenplum Databases for analytics-optimized SQL, Greenplum HD for Hadoop-based processing and Greenplum partner business intelligence, ETL, and analytics applications within a single appliance.
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February 1st, 2013 by Josh Linden
Actifio 5.1 Debuts New Copy Data Solutions and Pricing Models
Actifio’s technology portfolio is built to address a single aspect of enterprise IT infrastructure: the redundant copy data created by siloed systems such as backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, development, and test purposes. The newly-updated Actifio platform decouples data management from storage, network, and server infrastructure with or without Actifio storage hardware, with traditional or utility pricing models.
January 31st, 2013 by Josh Linden
Dell Announces Pre-Integrated SAP HANA Solutions and Active System Manager 7.0
Dell today announced new workload-optimized solutions for Dell server, storage and networking systems running the SAP HANA real-time analytics database platform. Dell also announced Active System Manager 7.0, the management layer for the company’s converged infrastructure offerings, which integrates recently-acquired Gale Technologies IP to deploy virtualized infrastructure and applications.
January 30th, 2013 by Josh Linden
HP Debuts StoreEver Tape Storage Portfolio
HP has introduced StoreEver Storage, a portfolio that integrates HP tape products and technologies with HP Converged Storage, HP Data Protector, and third-party backup software. StoreEver Storage solutions support tape media, standalone tape drives, and tape libraries in solutions that can accommodate more than 44 petabytes of data in a single system using 6.25TB LTO-6 cartridges that sustain 1.44TB/hr transfer rates, priced at an estimted 2.5 cents per gigabyte.
January 29th, 2013 by Lyle Smith
WD Teams With Arkeia Software Solutions to Expand Its SMB Storage Product Portfolio
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WD has announced the expansion of its small- and medium-sized businesses product portfolio with the addition of network backup software and appliances from Arkeia Software, a privately held data protection company recently acquired by WD. The acquisition of Arkeia Software was completed through a merger transaction, which encompassed all of their employees, technology and products. Additionally, WD announced that Arkeia Network Backup version 10.0 software is now generally available.
January 29th, 2013 by Josh Linden
HGST 1.2TB 10K Ultrastar 2.5-inch Enterprise HDDs Now Shipping
HGST has announced the availability of its new 1.2TB Ultrastar C10K1200 hard drives, the largest in the C10K line of 10,000RPM enterprise drives. The C10K1200 features a 64MB cache and a 6Gb/s SAS 6Gb/s interface that is plug-compatible with the company’s Ultrastar SSDs.
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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 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).
The Kingston MobileLite Wireless is the company's latest portable wireless storage device that ships without embedded storage and instead enables users to use memory cards (SD/SDHC/SDXC and microSD with included adapter) or USB flash drives to increase storage for tablets, phones and other mobile devices. MobileLite Wireless provides a battery life of up to 5 hours for playback and viewing files, and it conveniently charges over USB. The 5-hour life is 25% more than on the previous generation Wi-Drive portable wireless flash drive that Kingston continues to offer in 64GB and 128GB capacities. Uniquely, the MobileLite Wireless also offers the ability to serve as an emergency charger for mobile devices such as phones.
