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

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has just launched its first high-availability flash SAN, the RamSan-720. The device features redundant components and failover capabilities for organizations that want the ability to run multiple applications on one system without a single point of failure with either 6 or 12 TB of solid-state capacity. The RamSan-720 is the update

DataCore Software has introduced the SANsymphony-V Monitoring Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, enabling customers to easily monitor and manage storage assets virtualized by SANsymphony-V and other facets of their data center from System Center. Through a common storage virtualization layer, the new storage hypervisor enhances the value of diverse storage resources by unifying

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke its previous graph size record, set in the June Graph500 competition, with a single node server which houses 12 TB of Fusion-io memory tech. The system is called “Leviathan,” and for good reason; it’s a beast, featuring nine ioDrive Duos and one ioDrive.

Japan-based hard disc drive (HDD) motor supplier Nidec has announced that it has already resumed production in its Thai Ayutthaya plants. Production was halted last month when flooding struck the area, destrupting much of the world’s hard drive supply. While some hard drive manufacturers escaped direct flooding, they still relied on parts such as motors