NetApp has announced the North American availability of NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a storage solution that leverages AWS Direct Connect to link on-premise NetApp storage with Amazon’s cloud platform.

Dell has acquired Gale Technologies, a provider of infrastructure automation software for the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds for self-service access to infrastructure. Gale Technologies’ intellectual property will serve as a foundation for application, virtual desktop infrastructure and private cloud deployments.

Western Digital has announced the WD Black, its highest performance, highest capacity SATA desktop hard drive to date. The new 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM hard drive is designed for performance and reliability and can handle intense desktop computing with its 4TB of storage, 64 MB cache, dual stage actuator technology, SATA 6 GB/s interface, and integrated

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