At VMworld, LSI Corporation today announced immediate availability of its PCIe Nytro MegaRAID acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Nytro MegaRAID cards are the first to integrate PCIe flash technology and intelligent caching software with RAID using LSI dual-core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) technology.

Today marks the beginning of VMware’s ninth annual VMworld conference, where StorageReview is on site to cover major product launches from VMware and its partners. We will also be seeking out demonstrations of new and innovative technology on the tradeshow floor. Among the first product announcements of the conference is VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1, which

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced a roadmap to incorporate new flash management technology based on Hitachi intellectual property across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions. This new strategy will be inaugurated by the immediate availability of new flash acceleration for Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) that enables it to achieve more than

Pure Storage has announced several new updates to their FlashArray 300 series of MLC NAND-based storage arrays and the Purity software that manages them. The Purity 2.5 management software update highlights include iSCSI support via 10GbE, ZeroSnap snapshots, and vCenter web client plugin. While all of the new features add breadth to the Pure Storage

The NetApp Virtual Storage Tier optimizes the use of flash on the server through intelligent caching to improve the performance and efficiency of shared storage infrastructure. With the new Flash Accel, NetApp is extending the Virtual Storage Tier strategy to the server to provide caching of random read operations for virtual server infrastructure that leverage

Nimbus Data has launched Gemini, their third generation flash array. Gemini looks and acts much like prior Nimbus arrays, but there are significant updates this time around, namely 10-year endurance our of consumer-grade MLC NAND and software-configurable interconnect ports that support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. The Nimbus Gemini is also highlighted by hot-swap dual-controller

Dell has announced the new PowerVault MD3 dense array, their most dense storage array ever, housing up to 180TB in a 60-drive 4U rack enclosure. Dell bills the PowerVault MD3 as a flexible mainline storage array for SMBs up to enterprises that need bulk storage that’s flexible enough to grow with data storage demands over

Tegile Systems has announced the HA2400 and HA2800, two new storage solutions in its Zebi family. This announcement also marks the release of updates to Tegile’s Metadata Accelerated Storage System (MASS) architecture, which separates metadata from the primary data path to power de-duplication, compression, RAID, and snapshot pointers functionality more efficiently than architectures which intermingle

Violin Memory has announced a deal with Symantec to offer flash-optimized data management capabilities designed for highly virtualized environments. The new data management features in the Violin Memory Operating System (vMOS) include; snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, full-disk encryption, de-duplication and asynchronous replication. The net result after nine months worth of work between the two partners