Intel consistently releases firmware updates to their SSDs just as others in the space to correct issues that may arise with operation, and perhaps more importantly for consumers, to occasionally deliver even greater performance and reliability to their SSDs. Intel has an advantage in the space by engineering some of their components in-house such as
Samsung is announcing that is has begun mass production of its new 3D V-NAND which promises to bring anywhere from two to ten times the reliability and two times the write performance compared to sub-20nm floating gate NAND flash memory. To accomplish that end, Samsung implemented a new technology that vertically stacks the planar cell
PernixData FVP, the first flash hypervisor for virtual data centers is being announced for general release beginning August 6th. By virtualizing server side flash into a clustered acceleration tier, the new technology enables a fast, cost-efficient way to scale-out storage performance, independent of storage capacity. Read and write performance is said to be brought to
The LenovoEMC px12-450r is designed primarily for the SMB though it could easily fit the bill as a network storage workhorse for many organizations with specs including a quad-core Intel Xeon processor, redundant hot-swappable power supply, link aggregation across four gigabit Ethernet interfaces and an optional dual-interface 10GbE NIC expansion card. The px12-450r marries EMC
STEC is announcing the immediate availability of the first Micro SAS SSD that is shipping as part of the expanded sTec s800 family of SAS drives. The new 1.8" SFF (small-form-factor) Micro SAS SSDs are available through sTec and its distributors in 200GB and 400GB capacities. These drives are engineered for implementation in blade servers
Winning the Best of Interop award for the Data Center and Storage area, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator is a tightly integrated hardware and software solution that provides Microsoft SQL Server acceleration in a transparent fashion. SQL Server testing of OLAP and OLTP loads has resulted in performance gains of up to 25x! This is achieved
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.
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