OCZ had already promised to display the Z-Drive R5 at CES in an analyst meeting in early December, today OCZ has made the Z-Drive R5 official in a joint announcement with Marvell. OCZ teamed with Marvell on the next generation PCIe SSD storage solution dubbed Kilimanjaro. The Kilimanjaro platform brings not only the performance enterprise

LSI has announced the TrueStore RC5100 read channel IC for hard drives, the industry’s first to be based on 28nm silicon. The RC5100 enables increased drive capacity, higher yield and lower power consumption. LSI is currently demonstrating the read channel to OEMs.

Microsoft has announced much needed improvements to their cloud storage system, SkyDrive.  Microsoft reps say that they addressed the biggest issues that users have pointed out, largely around usability and responsiveness.

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate (NYSE: STX) updated its financial outlook for the December 2011 and March 2012 quarters. Overall, the outlook is good and Seagate believes that the industry will come closer to meeting demand than previously anticipated. While Seagate’s holdings in Thailand have not been affected by the recent flood, other industries and suppliers

BiTMICRO, California-based SSD storage company, has completed development of two new application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. Their platform is the only current one which uses two customized ASIC controllers and it looks like this could be a trend-setting innovation. These circuits function as part flash channel expander and part SSD controller, allowing BiTMICRO to

SOS Online Backup has announced the first low cost, all in one, enterprise cloud-based data protection service. The new service, ServerSave, offers cloud backup for Bare Metal, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL servers, plus granulated recovery.

Intel has stated that it will deliver the most efficient and programming-friendly platform for highly parallel applications. At a private briefing at SC11, Intel discussed the benefits of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture in weather modeling, tomography, proteins folding and advanced materials simulation. The ahah moment occurred with they broke out a sample

Patriot Memory has announced their new Mac Series XT SSDs and SODIMM lines, optimized for Mac computers. The Mac Series XT SSD includes a SandForce SF-2281 processor and SATA 6Gb/s interface to deliver 520 MB/s reads, 500 MB/s writes and 80,000 IOPS. If you’re asking why the Mac Series XT is different from Patriot’s other

At Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel has been touting the advantages that consumers and businesses can have by switching over to SSDs. While consumers might be quick to look just at the performance improvements, businesses are looking at things ranging from the costs to upgrade to the savings from productivity boosts. As it turns out