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

Fusion-io has entered the networked flash appliance space today with the launch of their new ION Data Accelerator software. Pairing commodity server hardware with ioMemory devices, ION pushes Fusion-io into the networked flash-acceleration market with the likes of industry leaders such as Violin and Texas Memory Systems. ION offerings include either fully integrated solutions from

Crucial has introduced its v4 Solid State Drive (SSD), designed to upgrade the storage performance of SATA 2 (3Gb/s) systems. SATA 2 is the predominant interface for systems manufactured before 2011, and the v4 SSD focuses on maximizing the transfer capabilities of such mainstream desktops and laptops.

D-Link has announced the DSN-6000 Series iSCSI SAN Array, designed with feedback from small to mid-size enterprises, state and federal government agencies, and educational institutions, with capacities up to 180TB. The DSN-6000 series offers data protection features including snapshot, volume cloning, and remote replication at no additional cost.

Patriot Memory has launched its new Gauntlet Node 2.5” hard drive or SSD enclosure, offering up to one terabyte of storage that can be accessed via USB 3.0 or built-in WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n. The enclosure can be powered by an internal battery for completely wireless operation.

Coraid has announced its new ZX-Series family of servers for cloud, video, and big data. The ZX-Series is powered by the ZFS file system along with Coraid’s EtherDrive technology, which abstracts distributed SAN storage as a local disk.

Corsair’s new lineup of Force GS SSDs is powered by a SandForce SF-2200 processor and toggle NAND. This marks Corsair’s first SSD design to make use of faster toggle NAND flash, which translates into a maximum random 4k write performance of 90k IOPS according to Corsair benchmarks.

Most storage solutions like the EMC VNX 5300 come to our enterprise test lab for review. On occasion though, we get an opportunity for hands-on time that requires us to bring our lab to on-site. That was the case last week as we spent hands on time with a pair of VNX 5300 unified storage