WD has released an update to their popular My Book Duo line of external hard drives, this time instead of going for capacity, they’re going for performance with a pair of 1TB WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM hard drives. The My Book VelociRaptor Duo is designed for creative professionals who want local access to SSD-type performance,

The Netgear GSM7352S 48-port switch is among the latest additions to StorageReview’s burgeoning enterprise testing environment. The GSM7352S offers much-needed room for growth in the test lab, and enables our staff to broaden the range of network topologies we can create while evaluating new storage gear. The GSM7352S offers 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, along with

HP has announced that Lifescript, a family health publisher, has selected HP 3PAR Storage to support increased storage demands and analytic-based decision-making after a tenfold increase in online traffic and the installation of a new business intelligence (BI) platform.

Mellanox Technologies has announced Connect-IB, a series of host channel adapter cards which offer up to 100Gb/s, sub-microsecond ltency and 130 million messages per second. Connect-IB is optimized for multi-tenant environments of hundreds of Virtual Machines per server, using PCI Express 3.0 x16 and FDR InfiniBand to offload CPU protocol processing and data movement to

Western Digital has just announced its first line of consumer networking products, the My Net family. WD provided us with a My Net N900 wireless router, effectively the top-of-the-line until the arrival of the My Net N900 Central with integrated storage next quarter. Our first impression is that the My Net series adds a few

NetApp’s new FAS2220 is the latest member of its entry-level product portfolio for midsize businesses, building on the launch of its FAS2240 announced in November 2011. The FAS2220 leverages new NetApp Flash Pool SSD caching technology to accelerate application performance and integrates with NetApp’s suite of storage efficiency technologies to help customers increase utilization and

EMC is now offering enhanced VNX storage solutions including the new VNXe 3150, featuring 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit than previous VNX enterprise storage systems. EMC has also added the new EMC Storage Analytics Suite, based on the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. VNX unified storage systems will be integrated with VMware

EMC has announced the activation of the Greenplum Analytics Workbench, a 1,000-node cluster with 24 petabytes of physical storage that will act as a lab environment for accelerating development of Apache Hadoop. EMC Greenplum will use the Analytics Workbench to test the limits of scale-out infrastructure technology, refine models for applying Big Data analytics, and

Whiptail has launched Invicta, a new enterprise-class solid state storage array, as well as Accela, the next generation of Whiptail’s most widely-deployed flash storage array, the XLR8r. Accela and Invicta join Whiptail’s family of NAND flash storage products, providing a pathway from initial provisioning with Accela up to scale out storage systems with Invicta as