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Hitachi Debuts Accelerated Flash Storage with Up to 307TB MLC Per 8U System

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) today unveiled Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage, a new MLC flash module featuring a rack-optimized form factor and a new multi-core flash memory controller from Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage is available now for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), introducing new functionality including inline write compression to the VSP.

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Synology DiskStation DS713+ and RS3413xs+ Announced

Synology has announced its most powerful 2-bay DiskStation NAS to date, the DS713+. The DS713+ comes equipped with a Dual Core 2.13 GHz processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, dual-LAN failover and link aggregation support, and hot swap support with a maximum internal capacity of 8TB (2X 4TB HDD). They have also announced the rack-mounted RS3413xs+

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NetApp FAS3220 and FAS3250 Midrange Storage Platforms Released

NetApp has updated their midrange storage platforms with the FAS3220 and FAS3250. The FAS3200 platforms aim to help SMBs and SMEs improve performance, reliability and scalability in their NAS/SAN environments. NetApp has optimized both units for flash storage to increase performance, they are cluster-enabled to support non-disruptive operation and support increased total capacity.

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EMC VPLEX Doubles The Supported Distance Between Active-Active Data Centers

EMC has announced that it has doubled the distance supported for moving VMware vSPhere vMotion workloads between active-active data centers with EMC VPLEX virtual storage. In addition, they also announced new VPLEX capabilities that will shape the way customers think about how they share data in VMware hybrid clouds to eliminate data center boundaries while

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HP AppSystems for SAP HANA Disaster Tolerant Solution Now Available

HP has announced it is the first technology partner to be certified by SAP for its HP AppSystems for SAP HANA portfolio with the disaster tolerant (DT) architecture. This will allow customers to host a second HANA system that can take over for their production system in the event of a significant outage such as

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OCZ Releases VXL 1.2 Flash Caching Software with Distributed Resource Sharing and High Availability

OCZ has released version 1.2 of its VXL cache and virtualization software, an update which enables host-based distributed flash volumes with high availability and fault tolerance. VXL 1.2 can power SAN-less infrastructures where flash data is synchronously mirrored between OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe cards on redundant cluster servers to make host-based flash continuously available across

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HP Storage Control Module and Insight Control For vCenter Updated

HP has announced the newest version of HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter, version 7.1. Control Storage Module is a plug-in for VMware’s vCenter management console, enabling VMware administrators to quickly obtain context-aware information about the HP storage in their VMware environment directly from vCenter.

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DreamWorks Animation Data Center On-Site

While at SNW Fall we were given an opportunity to tour the DreamWorks Animation data center in Redwood City, California. The entertainment field is a massive consumer of storage, with the animation field specifically having a special set of technology needs as a movie or TV show winds through a typical multi-year development cycle. Storage