Seagate Technology and LaCie have announced an exclusive agreement for Seagate to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie, pending regulatory approval. The offer values LaCie at approximately $186 million, including acquired net cash of approximately $65 million as of March 31, 2012. This represents a premium of 29% to LaCie’s average closing stock price over
The SCSI Trade Association’s (STA) Technology Showcase is an important venue for storage industry leaders and innovators to showcase their latest technologies. This week’s STA event offered a look into approaches for serial attached storage (SAS) connectivity that extend the reach of SAS links to achieve 10-meter cable lengths for passive copper, 25-meter lengths for
EMC has announced it is acquiring XtremIO, which will provide important resources for EMC as it continues to broaden its flash storage portfolio. EMC entered the flash storage market in 2008 when it became first to integrate flash drives into enterprise storage arrays; in 2011, EMC shipped over 24 PBs of flash storage. The all-cash
The SSD 330 Series is Intel’s latest entry SATA 6Gb/s SSD that gives consumers looking to upgrade existing systems affordable access to SSD performance. This new SandForce SF-2281-based SSD offers improved performance over the existing SATA 3.0Gb/s Intel SSD 320. The new SSD will come in capacities including 60GB, 120GB, and 180GB and offer read
In their first video Samsung’s SSD Angels took to the SSD wagon, revitalizing 50 computers that were in desperate need of upgrade. Thanks to the Samsung SSD 830 SSD and a few minute’s upgrade time, those who complied with the four crazy SSD geeks got a whole new relationship with their computer. When seeing her machine boot for the
Teradata, a analytic data solutions company, has announced that the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2690 is now available for worldwide shipment. The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a fully integrated analytical platform designed to deliver double the performance with up to triple the data capacity of its predecessor.
EMC has announced version 9.0 of its ITOI solution, designed for effective and efficient management of virtual data centers and cloud environments. ITOI 9.0 extends the management capabilities of VMware vCenter Server, delivering complete and unified view into the entire virtual data center infrastructure to its users, including the interrelationships that exist among physical and
Testing enterprise hardware and software requires an evaluation platform beyond consumer desktops. StorageReview understands that companies want hardware they send out for review tested in the same environment they are positioning it for and to that end we have deployed a pair of Lenovo ThinkServer RD240’s for enterprise reviews. The RD240 is a 2U rack-mountable
Corsair announced a new line of caching SSDs using the NVELO Dataplex software under a new product family called the Accelerator Series. Offered in capacities ranging from 30GB to 60GB, all of these caching solutions are offered at a pricetag under $99. Very similar to the OCZ Synapse caching solution, these SSDs are aimed at
The hits keep on coming at CES as Marvell announces this morning that its unveiling the 88SE9230 6Gb/s SATA controller. The controller features four ports for connecting either HDD or SSD devices and two PCIe 2.0 lanes to accommodate the thoughput of SSDs.
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