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

Icy Dock’s new MB080U3S-1SB Blizzard 3.5” drive enclosure is engineered for maximum cooling. The Blizzard integrates an 80mm fan to cool all sides of the hard drive and create consistent airflow from the front to the back of the enclosure.

SMART Storage Systems has announced a new lineup of Optimus Ultra+ MLC-based SSDs. According to SMART, these SSDs can achieve 50 drive writes per day with MLC flash to better compete with more expensive SLC flash for write-intensive storage applications. The Optimus Ultra+ leverages the Guardian Technology Platform, SMART Storage System’s proprietary suite of features

SK Hynix Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire Link_A_Media Devices Corporation (‘LAMD’). LAMD is a developer of semiconductor system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, also commonly referred to as controllers, which interface with processors to increase the speed and reliability of flash memory.

EMC has announced its new VNX HPC series, including a preconfigured hardware and software appliance for commercial Lustre environments. The VNX HPC series includes metadata and object servers, EMC VNX5100 metadata storage, VNX7500 object storage, and Terascala LustreStack software. This product family also adds Infiniband connectivity, scaling performance to 10s of GB/s bandwidth with capacities

Seagate Technology has announced a line of Backup Plus storage devices that offer one-click computer backup plus the ability to integrate with Facebook and Flickr to download or upload photos and video. Backup Plus devices work interchangeably with Windows and Apple computers, and include a Universal Storage Module (USM) connector which enables consumers to update

Western Digital has announced My Net, its first line of wireless home networking products. My Net features new WD FasTrack technology that uses real-time analysis to identify and prioritize bandwidth for entertainment services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, VUDU, YouTube, Xbox LIVE, and Skype. The top-of-the-line My Net N900 Central will also feature an integrated 1

Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected

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