EMC has announced the DLm8000, their latest high-end mainframe family of virtual tape libraries. The DLm8000 is highlighted by support for EMC VMAX and EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) synchronous replication. The system also boasts a 2.5X improvement in performance over the nearest competitor (read: IBM).

Toshiba launched the MK01GRRB series of enterprise hard drives at the end of last year. The 2.5" 15,000RPM 6Gb/s SAS drives are available in 147GB and 300GB capacities, making the MK01GRRB the fastest enterprise hard drive Toshiba offers in the 2.5-inch form factor. Toshiba isn’t just about spindle performance with this family of drives though, they’ve

X-IO has announced that it will demonstrate a single rack of commodity hardware that can sustain over 15 gigabytes per second of throughput and up to 100,000 IOPS with Windows Server 2012. The demonstration at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 uses 10 ISE-2 Intelligent Storage systems with HP servers, Infiniband adapters, and hardware from Qlogic,

Nexenta has announced the upcoming release of NexentaVSA for View, expanding Nexenta’s ZFS-based OpenStorage offerings into the virtualized desktop market. NexentaVSA for View uses the ZFS file system with commodity hardware to reduce management and storage costs associated with VDI. This announcement concludes a three-month NexentaVSA beta program which saw testers gain up to 10X

In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Western Digital drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March were 44.2 million units, compared to 28.5 million in the prior quarter, which shows major recovery from the Thailand floods as well as immediate benefit from the Hitachi acquisition. WD also indicated for the first time in a

Fusion-io has used DEMO Spring 2012 to launch their ioMemory SDK which offers software developers unprecedented native access to ioMemory flash storage. This means developers will be able to optimize web, enterprise and big data applications through direct access to the ioMemory layer for the first time. The net result is the tightest possible integration

While SSDs get all the attention when it comes to high-performance storage, the venerable platter-based alternatives aren’t dead yet. Western Digital is out to prove that hard drives can still create substantial performance under the right conditions, with capacity points that would make most SSD users envious. The new WD VelociRaptor is a 10,000 RPM

OCZ Technology has announced that the company’s enterprise class Deneva 2 SSDs will be equipped within the newest NuVola Private Cloud Platform Solution Appliance – SAN Velocity powered by Fujitsu, which also uses Assurance Storage’s ApplicationSmart software.

Egnyte has announced the availability of Egnyte HybridCloud File Sharing for the Enterprise, which includes a set of features and integrations that provide a simple, scalable, and secure solution for file sharing and collaboration in enterprise environments. In addition to carefully controlling access and ensuring uninterrupted productivity needs, Egnyte has found that enterprise organizations have