Drobo has announced two new storage appliances that offer dual Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity. The Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini share a common hardware and firmware platform and similar feature sets, with the key difference being the 5D is intended for stationary use, utilizing 3.5” drives, while the Drobo Mini is designed for portability

Before you start to build or purchase your own RAID you need to decide on three of the following factors. how big – how much capacity you need, how strong – what fault tolerance is needed, and how fast – what performance in terms of write/read speed you want. In this guest editorial we cover

Symantec has announced updates to its NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 technology. Symantec’s updated backup appliances are aimed to reduce backup platform fragmentation, offering end-to-end integrated backup appliances for servers, storage, and software.

Marvell has announced the mass deployment of the Marvell 88SS9187 SATA controller equipped with high-performance embedded processor technology. The new controller features a 6Gb/s SATA Revision 3.1 compliant host interface, which is optimized the SSD sector and offers many unique benefits to the consumer, mobile, and enterprise markets. A large number of high-profile SSD manufacturers

OWC is teasing a new PCIe SSD solution that leverages up to four of their Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSDs (or possibly a variation of the Express) tied together on a PCIe board by a Marvell 88SE9445 SATA RAID controller. The SSDs themselves use SandForce SF-2200 series processors and can be added to the board one at

Western Digital has added two more content providers to their line of media streamers; Vimeo and PlayJam. The update is available via firmware update on the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub products and takes just a few minutes to update.

OCZ has launched the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS PCIe SSDs. OCZ has released the fully tweaked version of the RevoDrive SSDs to generate maximum performance for multi-threaded applications needed by workstation users and enthusiasts who crave ultimate high-end performance. The RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS SSDs deliver 4KB random

Newer Technologies has released a pair of RAID controller cards aimed at Mac Pro owners frustrated that their beloved computers can’t fully utilize the increasing numbers of 6Gb/s SATA and SAS drives. The controller cards ship in two configurations: The MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-2e card has two external mini-SAS ports, while the MAXPower RAID mini-SAS

Intel just launched the enterprise-ready SSD 710 Series and already they’re about to post some impressive results. The 710 SSDs will be featured in the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named Gordon by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, which will be able to turn 35 million IOPS. How many Intel