Highly Reliable Systems has announced a new high-performance, high-capacity Direct Attached Storage system using hard drive based removable cartridges. The RAIDFrame makes an entire 3-drive RAID array, along with its controller, a removable backup cartridge – a unique feature when compared to conventional RAID storage systems. Highly Reliable Systems’ removable RAIDPac was recently certified with
At the Barclay’s Capital Global Technology Conference today OCZ Technology has announced plans to showcase both the enterprise Z-Drive R5 and consumer-based TLC SSDs at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January. The Z-Drive R5 follows hot on the heels of the Z-Drive R4 and promises to more than double IOPS performance, going from 1.5
Business recovery service provider IT-Lifeline has announced a new service, BLACKCLOUD Edge, which uses CommVault Simpana 9 software to synch up with Amazon Web Services, making for an affordable disaster recovery solution. According to CommVault, the new service could offer up to a 50% price reduction compared to current DR services.
STEC, Inc, announced that its flagship ZeusIOPS SSD product line has been expanded to include a new ultra-high endurance model. STEC’s new SSD is a Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash-based drive that uses CellCare technology allowing the drive to complete at least 30 full capacity writes per day for five years, which will reduce the total
After completing a review, in most cases we hang onto the gear that was sent to us (some comes to us on loan). Some of these product get put through long-term testing, some we warehouse in anticipation of testing updated firmware in the future, and some we keep on hand for occasions like this. In
A guilty verdict has been reached concerning the Hitachi-LG Data Storage trial. The joint company admitted to 15 criminal counts related to price fixing on components for consumer electronics devices. The judge in charge of the case sentenced the guilty parties to a $21.1 million fine. Hitachi and LG had been under investigation over the
OCZ has announced their latest family of SSDs, the Octane. Leveraging the Indilinx Everest platform and SATA 6Gb/s interface, the OCZ Octane delivers read speeds up to 570 MB/s and writes of 400 MB/s. It’s not all about performance though, the Octane is the first 2.5" SSD to hit the 1TB capacity mark and that’s
AVADirect has announced a new 8-node server system designed for customers looking to replace their large server farms with something smaller and more cost-effective.
Datacenter architects and SAN manufacturers have fallen in love with the SSD for caching and metadata storage and OCZ is doing its best to return that affection. The San Jose-based company has announced that it’s releasing a 1.8" version of its enterprise-grade Deneva SSD line dubbed the Deneva MO-297.
IDC’s Spring 2011 Storage User Demand Study (SUDS) has been released and includes interesting insights on enterprise storage market trends and their preferred storage brands by usage scenario. The main takeaways – EMC dominates mindshare, midrange storage is the most favored and many are already using outsourced storage solutions.
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