EMC has announced the general availability of their XtremIO all flash arrays. XtremIO was acquired by EMC in May of last year as a way to boost EMC's offerings and visibility in the all flash array arena. EMC showed off "Project X" at VMworld a few months later, touting the unique feature set that let

HP has created a package deal for small to medium businesses (SMB) who are trying to efficiently deploy and manage a server/storage environment for critical applications.  Many organizations have budgetary constraints that prevent them from getting the full suite of tools they need to support these infrastructures. With this announcement HP has shown they are supportive

Dot Hill today launched a lineup of AssuredSAN 4004 storage devices based on the company’s ninth-generation RAID architecture, including 12Gb SAS arrays and first-to-market 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel/10Gb iSCSI converged interface models. The AssuredSAN 4004 platform is designed for high-bandwidth cloud services and vertical markets such as media and entertainment, oil and gas, telecommunications, big data analytics,

Cray today introduced Tiered Adaptive Storage, an open Hierarchical Storage Management solution for Big Data and supercomputing that has been developed in partnership with Versity Software. TAS is a complete software and hardware stack for large-scale tiered storage archives that leverages the Lustre file system and ensures data protection and accessibility at scale and during

Toshiba has announced the PX02SS, a 2.5" 12GB/s SAS enterprise SSD designed for write intensive workloads like online transactional databases. The PX02SS joins the recently released PX02SM, which is also a 12GB/s SAS SSD, but generally fails to take advantage of the speedy interface. Both drives use eMLC NAND, but the PX02SS is tuned specifically for

The Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS is a 24-bay SAN that derives its storage capacity and performance from 17 x 2.5" SFF 600GB 10K RPM SAS HDDs and 7 x 2.5" 400GB SSDs and features dual storage controllers, each with 4GB of memory. As with other offerings in the Dell EqualLogic family, the PS6110XS reflects a major

Toshiba has announced the slim, 7mm two-platter MQ02ABF series 2.5-inch 5,400 RPM SATA hard disk drive. The MQ02ABF series is Toshiba’s first two platter 7mm HDD model, which combines both the performance and power efficiency needed for thin mobile computing applications. The MQ02ABF HDD series is available in 750GB and 1TB capacities while featuring a

Seagate is today unveiling its new open storage platform intended for hyperscale and cloud storage systems, using an architecture which connects bulk hard drive storage directly to the application layer. The Kinetic storage platform utilizes open APIs with Ethernet as the interconnect protocol to enable storage platforms to make use of scale-out HDD arrays for

Synology America has announced the DiskStation DS214, their latest 2-bay NAS server for SOHO and small businesses. The DS214 is the upgraded successor to the DS213 and delivers an optimal price/performance solution to securely share data in a variety of productive environments. Synology’s DS214 runs Synology’s DiskStation Manager 4.3 (DSM 4.3), which includes several features that