IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a privately-held developer of flash memory solutions based in Houston, Texas. IBM’s acquisition includes the TMS RamSan family of shared rackmount systems and PCIe cards. Financial terms of the purchase, which is expected to close later this year, were not disclosed in the announcement.
Seagate has announced an investment in DensBits, as the formerly hot, now scorching hot, SSD controller space accelerates. DensBits’ claim to fame is the inventor of Memory Modem. If that sounds a little too 1990’s dial-up service, rest assured that Memory Modem is actually "A modem designed specifically for Flash memory…that dramatically increases reliability and,
Nexsan has released the NST series unified storage systems that leverage SSDs in both file (NAS) and block-modes (iSCSI). The NST series layers solid state storage with Nexsan’s FASTier acceleration technology over top SATA or SAS interface hard drives. FASTier intelligently uses the speed benefit of the SSDs to accelerate the performance of the higher
LSI has announced a new line of MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller cards designed to deliver the high I/O transaction performance needed to accelerate the most demanding database applications and datacenter workloads. The new controllers are powered by the LSI dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), delivering data quickly and reliably to mission-critical applications by combining the industry’s
Patriot Memory has released the Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 drive. The semi-rugged Supersonic Boost XT features a rubberized casing for extra protection and delivers read speeds up to 90 MB/s through the USB 3.0 interface. The drives will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities.
Greenliant Systems has begun mass production of its industrial grade SATA interface NANDrive SSDs. I-grade SATA NANDrive devices keep customer data safe, operating at temperatures between -40 and +85 degrees Celsius. The industrial grade SATA NANDrive is currently offered in capacities of 2GB, 4GB, and 8 GB; larger capacity models are planned for future releases.
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
Nexenta Systems, supplier of OpenStorage solutions, has announced that it has secured over $21 million in Series C financing, with Menlo Ventures– experienced investor in the storage space industry–as its new lead investor. Sierra Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures were also chosen for partnership in this round, joining current investors Javelin Venture Partners and TransLink
Towards the end of December, WD released an Android and iOS remote app for the WD TV Live and Live Hub, which just might be one of the coolest and most useful add-on features we have seen for a media hub. WD Remote as its called, puts the same features as the standard remote into
Western Digital has announced the My Book Live Duo, a 2-bay personal cloud storage device that expands on WD’s current single-bay My Book Live. The Duo combines the benefits of shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system using RAID. The Duo has an 800 MHz CPU and provides automatic backup for Windows
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