Seagate is now shipping its new Enterprise Turbo Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD), first in its class and billed at up to three times the random performance of current 15K RPM enterprise hard drives. Available in capacities up to 600GB, the Enterprise Turbo marks a new balance between capacity and performance that promises SSD-like speeds

LaCie is announcing an update of its NAS OS 3 to v3.1 that powers the LaCie 5big NAS Pro and 2big NAS storage solutions. Amongst other professional feature enhancements, the most significant improvements enhance hybrid cloud capabilities and deliver a 25% increase in RAID 5 write speeds. The RAID 5 write speeds have been increased

Hitachi Data Systems is announcing significant enhancements to its Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP). These improved solutions are designed to keep pace with continued data growth by offering double the performance of previous generation models while still driving

CA ARCserve D2D for Linux is a quick backup and restore software that complements CA’s existing ARCserve D2D for Microsoft Windows, producing a complete solution for today’s heterogeneous environments. By providing fast, frequent backups and flexible recovery with built-in data security, ARCserve D2D facilitates both data security and disaster recovery for physical and virtual servers.

DataCore Software and Hyve Solutions are announcing their new storage appliances which will feature Fusion-io high-performance SSDs, Emulex LightPulse 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs and DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software. The new storage appliances, which are designed by Hyve Solutions and will be made available through SYNNEX’s distribution arm, are designed for mid-market enterprises and channel

Writing about storage and our experiences in our own lab is enjoyable, but every now and then we like to get out in the field to talk to end users and to see storage in the wild. Our most recent visit took us 250 miles up to Flight Options which is located just east of

Seagate recently blogged about a new enterprise solid state hybrid hard drive (SSHD) though the company has yet to publicly mention the product. The new enterprise SSHD is branded as an IBM drive and is designed as a storage upgrade in IBM System x servers. From what is known so far, the drives are based

HP today announced the expansion of their big data portfolio with one of the additions being HP HAVEn. Overall, these additions provide organizations with improved data insight and a view of real-time outcomes as HP commissioned research shows that more than a third of organizations have failed with a big data initiative. HP’s expanded portfolio

The world’s thinnest 1TB HDD, the WD Blue 7mm, 2.5" form factor drive, is now in shipment having been designed to meet the requirements of form-factor constrained applications such as ultra-thin notebooks. The drive is shipping in capacities that range from 320GB to 1TB, all in the 7mm height. The WD Blue also features compatibility