UIT has announced three new products at the NAB 2012 conference in Las Vegas, including the pre-release of Media Cluster, a scale-out video and media storage solution for media and entertainment markets. It also announced two new storage products (the SV5000G2 and SV3000G2), the latest members of UIT’s Unified Storage line that are designed for

OWC released a new Mac and PC bootable PCIe SSD solution called the Mercury Accelsior, built around two LSI SandForce-powered SSDs. Offering speeds up to 780MB/s read and 763MB/s write, with I/O capabilities up to 100,000 IOPS burst, the Accelsior offers a substantial boost in performance over a single SATA-connected SSD. While at NABShow 2012

EMC announced at the NAB Conference today that EMC Isilon has been adopted as the storage platform for Livestream, a leading provider of live event coverage. EMC also announced that Isilon will remain the preferred scale-out NAS solution of choice for key media partners including Neoscape, The Associated Press, Corus Entertainment, John Wiley & Sons.

The Blade 500 is Hitachi’s new 6U rack mount blade server system, supporting up to 8 server blades plus I/O and management hardware. Hitachi’s flexible architecture and logical partitioning features are ideal for organizations with diverse data storage needs, allowing the multiple applications to securely co-exist on the same hardware. The Blade 500 is also

Nexan has announced that it will feature a live product demonstration of the E48, the newest member of the E-Series line of SAN storage systems, at the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas, April 14-19. The E48 delivers up to 144TB of storage in 4U and can be expanded to

SGI is emphasizing storage flexibility in the launch of SGI NAS, the first fully integrated product in its Modular InfiniteStorage line. SGI looks to capture a piece of the storage market of IT managers and CTOs who find themselves with ever-increasing data storage needs. Since so many industries rely on large amounts of high-availability data,

NEC has upgraded its HYDRAstor HS8-3000 grid storage platform to deliver encryption for data at rest, instant file copy, and shared system mode. HYDRAstor 3.1 is available to existing customers through a software upgrade featuring enhancements to HYDRAstor’s advanced functionality for enterprise data centers.

LaCie has announced that its professional 5-bay RAID server is now available in a diskless model gibing users all the benefits of the 5big Network 2, but with the flexibility to scale their storage and security as needed.

STEC has announced that its flagship enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across the complete NEC M-Series disk array platform, including M100, M300 and M500 products. The integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs into the next-generation NEC Storage M-Series platform supplements storage area network (SAN) applications such as enterprise virtualization, server consolidation and cloud computing all