The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced the release of its new SATA Revision 3.3 Specification and Unified Test Document (UTD) 1.5. The latest release introduces new features that enable higher capacity, reliability and flexibility for SATA-based products. All SATA-IO members have access to the new specification while non-members can purchase it.

In our first segment of the VxRack Node review, we covered over the deployment options, primary management interface overview and a look at the hardware behind our all flash performance nodes from VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC. In this portion of the review we take a look at VxRack Nodes in a two-layer SAN configuration and

Dell Inc. has introduced a new expansion enclosure for its PowerEdge server line, the MD1280. This ultra-dense expansion enclosure offers adding up to 84 drives in a 5U form factor. The MD1280 can be expanded to two shelves, giving up to 168 drives in a 10U rack space and supports HDD with capacities up to

In June of 2013, EMC made a $200 million investment in ScaleIO, adding to their portfolio of storage offerings with a webscale software-defined scale-out solution. The ScaleIO stack has grown in flexibility and capabilities since then and now EMC offers ScaleIO in a variety of configurations to solve a wide variety of enterprise and service provider

Today Veritas released their inaugural Data Genomics Index. This study is what Veritas is calling the “first accurate view of the composition of enterprise data.” The study was performed with Veritas’ extensive customer base of 50,000 enterprise customers worldwide, including 86% of the global Fortune 500, and analyzing tens of billions of files. Veritas is

Today Violin Memory Inc. launched two new starter kits that are geared toward getting customers to migrate toward all flash data centers and the benefits that come along with it, such as increased performance and high availability. Both starter kits feature Violin’s Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7700 and have two different focuses, scalability and stretch cluster. The

Last month we reported that NetApp Inc. had announced that it was going to acquire SolidFire for $870 million in cash. This week NetApp closed the deal and will be combining SolidFire into its line of products. As we previously stated, the acquisition of SolidFire will combine the performance and economics of all-flash storage with a

Today Western Digital Corporation announced that its HGST Active Archive System has been certified with the FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer family from Avere Systems. This new combined system will combine the strength of the two products in order to enable enterprises to leverage the scalability and economics of cloud architectures, while preserving investments in file storage and applications.

Today IBM and Catalogic announced that a new set of solutions that combines Catalogic’s flagship product, ECX, with several of IBM’s products. The new joint solutions are aimed at modernizing IT infrastructure including automation of storage and data management, self-service capabilities, and complete RESTful API management.  This modernization should deliver superior results while lowering OPEX. The