At Microsoft TechEd, Violin Memory and Microsoft are showcasing a new all-flash “Cluster-in-a-Box” Private Cloud solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform. The Violin is a 3U system specified to deliver one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth, potentially replacing multiple racks of traditional disk arrays. Multiple “Cluster-in-a-Box” arrays

Fusion-io has announced that Cisco will be making an ioMemory mezzanine card available to customers who are using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The solution which is based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory2 platform and will give UCS B-series blade servers a substantial performance boost, ideal for those using the Cisco servers for scalable application

PMC has announced its 12Gb/s SAS Flash Manager (SFM-12G) for enterprise SSDs. This will be the industry’s first end-to-end 12Gb/s SAS solution, from protocol controller to SSD controller. According to PMC, the SFM-12G delivers more than 300,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 2.5” SAS SSD. When paired with PMC’s SPCv 12G, manufacturer benchmarks indicate

HP has announced Data Protector 7, a data management software solution designed to operate at the largest data storage scales. Powered by HP’s Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Data Protector 7 delivers a unified platform for storage assets via federated deduplication. HP also announced updates to StoreOnce federated data deduplication. Both solutions leverage Autonomy

SanDisk today introduced the Lightning line of PCI Express (PCIe) Solid State Accelerator (SSA) cards. Lightning cards can be installed into any four lane (x4) or greater PCIe slot to provide more rapid access to frequently used data and to manage I/O-heavy workloads. With compatibility in mind across multiple platforms, the SanDisk Lighting PCIe SSA

OCZ Technology Group has announced its Agility 4 SSD series, featuring a 6Gbps SATA III interface and the Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform recently introduced in their flagship Vertex 4 SSD series. According to OCZ benchmarks, the Agility 4 delivers transfer rates of up to 400MB/s and up to 85,000 random write IOPS. These benchmarks

STEC has announced Nexenta’s certification of an all-STEC SSD configuration for the NexentaStor ZFS-based storage platform. NexentaStor will use ZeusRAM SSD to store its write log and ZeusIOPS SSD for the read cache, meaning up to 5X better performance for database indexing and email exchanges, 8X reduction in cost per user, and 4X reduction in

Interoperability has been the watchword at many 2012 SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase demonstrations. Recent performance advances in data storage performance could splinter hardware platforms in the enterprise, and STA sponsors including HP, Fusion-io, HGST, LSI, PMC-Sierra, SanDisk, Seagate, and Western Digital were eager to distinguish themselves with solutions that take advantage of increased

QNAP has announced two new 16-drive, 3U rackmount Turbo NAS systems featuring Intel’s Xeon and Core i3 processors, optional 10Gb/s ethernet and 6Gb/s SATA interfaces, and up to 64TB storage. The TS-EC1679U-RP and TS-1679U-RP achieve 2,000 MB/sec and 200,000 IOPS throughput in QNAP’s benchmarks, making them the highest capacity and highest performing NAS products released