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

Sanbolic today announced the general availability of ShareCenter, a new Melio Enterprise software file-serving module that transforms siloed Windows Server environments into highly scalable NAS solutions at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. ShareCenter is designed for large enterprise virtual and cloud environments enabling customers to seamlessly consolidate file-serving workloads onto commodity hardware.

Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation

This week at CES we had to opportunity to see the new Indilinx-based Everest 2 reference board in action at the OCZ suite. While it is easy to look at performance numbers on paper, it’s entirely different seeing these results in front of you using our same accepted benchmarks. With a quick IOMeter preview, we

OCZ Technology has announced the acquisition of SANRAD Inc., an Israel-based provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware. The addition of this intellectual property to OCZ’s portfolio is expected to increase the adoption of PCIe SSD storage solutions specifically in VMware and Citrix Zen environments. SANRAD currently sells its flash caching and virtualization

Toshiba adds to the river of CES product announcements today with the introduction of a new line of USB 3.0 flash drives. Available in 32GB and 64GB capacities, the TransMemory-EX series boasts maximum transfer speeds of 220 MB/sec for reads and 94MB/sec for writes when mated a USB 3.0 port.

OWC, a zero emissions Mac and PC technology company, have announced the addition of its lowest-cost-of-entry SSD to its SSD line, the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 3G SSD. The new SSD combines SandForce technologies and Tier 1/Grade A NAND to bring data rates over 275MB/s in a noiseless, more reliable form factor over conventional magnetic

EMC has sent out a letter to its Velocity channel partners stating their disk drive prices will rise 5 to 15% beginning in January, 2012. These increases are due to the floods that are ravaging Thailand, which caused hard drive companies to raise their prices a few months ago. Until now, the large storage array and