Samsung announced that it has begun mass production of the PM853T, the industry’s first high-performance, three-bit-NAND-based (TLC) SSD for servers and data centers. Samsung's PM853T is quoted to deliver a 30 percent increase in manufacturing efficiency compared to SSDs that use 2-bit NAND flash components. The PM853T allows data centers to better manage workloads related to social

The Supermicro SuperWorkstation 5037A-i is a high-end workstation that is comprised of the SC732D4-903B mid-tower chassis and the single-processor X9SRA Intel Xeon motherboard. The X9SRA can be loaded with up to 512GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory (512GB DDR3 ECC LRDIMM, 256GB DDR3 ECC RDIMM or 64GB DDR3 ECC/non-ECC UDIMM) and supports up to the Intel Xeon E5-1600/E5-2600

Samsung hard drive storage, a division of Seagate, is now shipping the new 2.5-inch Spinpoint M9T, which is the world's first 9.5mm thin 2TB hard drive, satisfying the growing consumer demand for storage capacity in mobile applications.  The Spinpoint M9T mobile drive is offered in capacities of 1.5TB and 2TB and gives OEMs, channel system integrators

Avaya is announcing its Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) framework, which is based on Fabric Connect, an OpenStack Horizon-based Management Platform and Open APIs into the Avaya Fabric Connect. With this implementation, the SDDC framework can deliver productivity and time-to-service improvements to enterprises with highly virtualized data centers. In operation, the Avaya SDDC framework fuses and customizes

The Intel SSD 530 is being announced and features 20nm MLC NAND as well 2.5", mSATA and M.2 form factors to meet loads of ultra-mobility applications. The SSD 530 ships in capacities up to 480GB depending on the form factor. The 2.5" form factor SSD 530 delivers the greatest array of capacity options with 80, 120,

The ThinkStation D30 is Lenovo's most powerful workstation on the market and is configurable with up to two 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors as well as serious specifications to support performance-intensive applications ranging from 3D modeling to oil and gas extraction. The ThinkStation D30 is the largest client desktop in Lenovo’s workstation line. Those sizeable dimensions

Seagate has announced the Video 3.5 which at 4TB will be the industry’s largest-capacity 3.5-inch hard disk drive engineered specifically for digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes and surveillance systems. The Seagate Video 3.5 offers a 0.55 percent annual failure rate and other features which will be attractive to manufacturers, integrators and installers looking for

Seagate is announcing its new Seagate 600 SSD, 600 Pro Enterprise SSD and 1200 Enterprise SSDs designed for consumer, entry-enterprise, and mainstream enterprise applications (respectively) and is also releasing information regarding its new X8 PCIe application accelerator card. The new Seagate 600 SSD and 600 Pro Enterprise SSD drives both feature Toshiba MLC NAND and interface

Dot Hill has announced its midrange AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series will feature the company’s newly-patented method for maximizing real-time tiered storage performance. AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series solutions incorporate RealStor, new Dot Hill management software which implements autonomic balancing of "hot" and "cold" data across drives within the same storage tier without policy setting or human