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.

Sonnet Technologies has extended its line of portable ruggedized RAID storage systems intended for the video and film industries. The Fusion F2QR builds off the older Fusion F2 unit by adding more storage space, new connectivity options and new functionality. The new model features a pair of non-removable 2.5" 1TB drives mounted side-by-side in a

In late July OCZ announced they were shipping their first Indilinx-based SSD design, code named Everest, to OEMs. LG is now offering a slim 128GB Everest SSD in their LG Xnote P220 to deliver great operational performance and "fast boot technology," which enables genuine instant on functionality for LG’s notebooks. 

Western Digital has released new mobile apps for accessing personal content on the go – WD 2go and WD 2go Pro. The apps are available from both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market and interface with WD’s My Book Live external hard drive. Content on the drive may also be accessed through the browser through WD2go.com.

Seagate has announced it is shipping a new 4TB version of their GoFlex Desk series of external hard drives. The new drive gets an updated look, with a glossy black case and upright design which yields a small footprint on the desk – the rest of the GoFlex Desk line will get the design update

Synology announced the new DiskStation DS411, a more cost-effective version of the DiskStation DS411+II and successor to the DS410, packing a 1.6Ghz processor, 512MB of RAM, and four 3.5-inch hard drive bays. Offering RAID5 transfer speeds up to 105MB/s read and 48MB/s write, the DS411 is designed to handle most duties in a small-business or

Samsung has announced their new family of SSDs, the SSD 830 series. The new drives will offer a SATA 6Gb/s interface and will be the only current generation SATA 6Gb/s SSDs built entirely in-house; leveraging Samsung NAND, processor and firmware.