LSI Corporation today introduced Syncro, a new storage architecture designed to bridge DAS single-server storage and traditional external storage in order to provide storage sharing and scaling capabilities for multi-server environments. The announcement also marks manufacturer availability of the first Syncro device, the MX-B rack boot appliance.
WD has announced a new version of its My Book Studio external hard drive featuring USB 3.0 capability, which provides data transfer speeds up to three times faster than USB 2.0. Additionally, WD has added 4 TB capacity in a single-drive configuration making it an ideal solution for backing up large amounts of digital content.
Synology has announced the launch of the RS10613xs+ following last week’s release of the RS3413xs+. Built specifically for SMEs, the new 10-bay 2U RackStation is Synology’s most advanced hardware to date, providing fast and scalable storage at a reasonable price; the ideal storage solution between NAS and SAN. The RS10613xs+ can quickly scale to up
EMC Corporation today announced that the Isilon OneFS 7.0 scale-out NAS operating system will be generally available this week. According to EMC, OneFS 7.0 brings a 25% increase in single file system throughput, caching capabilities that reduce latency by 50% for I/O-intensive applications, and tighter integration with VMware.
SolidFire today announced general availability of its SF3010 and SF6010 all-SSD storage systems, designed to allow cloud providers bring performance- and uptime-sensitive applications like Oracle, SAP, Hadoop and NoSQL into the cloud. SolidFire storage systems combine up to one hundred SF3010 or SF6010 nodes over 10GB Ethernet, for more than 2PB total capacity and 5
In the storage world, shipping 100,000 arrays is a pretty big milestone. Dell has hit said milestone as Connexions4London (C4L), a web services provider, recently deployed the 100,000th EqualLogic array. For perspective, when Dell purchased EqualLogic in November 2008, there were 4,000 customers and 8,000 units in the field. In just about five years, Dell
CommVault has announced the Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, the industry’s first standalone software product that automates snapshot management and application-aware recovery across multiple storage arrays and physical or virtual servers. Businesses are beginning to use hardware snapshots more and more in order to support the recovery of critical applications and virtual server environments; however, existing
Hitachi’s (HDS) eleven new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged infrastructure solutions combine storage, server, networking and software management in integrated packages. The UCP represents Hitachi’s efforts to improve upon first-generation converged infrastructure solutions, particularly on limitations around managing third-party devices in heterogeneous infrastructures.
Overland Storage has announced the availability of LTO6 technology in the company’s line of NEO Series tape libraries. The new LTO6 technology has increased user storage capacities by more than twice than previous generation technology, providing up to 6.25TB in storage on a single data cartridge, boasting data transfer rates of up to 1.4TB/hr per
LaCie has announced that the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series now features a pair of SATA III SSDs (6GB/s interface) with read speeds as fast as 635MB/s in RAID0. The LaCie Little Big Disk is the fastest portable Thunderbolt solution on the market and can transfer a 50GB file in less than two minutes or
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