Symantec’s survey of 4,506 business and IT executives reveals useful indicators for the storage industry, underscored by its finding that data growth is expected to reach 67 percent for enterprise and 178 percent for SMB during the next year. As many as two-thirds of respondents lost business important information in the previous 12 months.

Last week we were on-site with LSI at their Norcross, Georgia facility. This facility houses roughly 100 employees that span everything from their MegaRAID and high availability DAS (HA-DAS) teams, to a lab, technicians and specialists that make up the new Nytro-branded accelerated storage division. The focus of the visit centered largely around testing protocol

Hitachi GST has announced a new line of portable and desktop USB 3.0 storage solutions in its G-Technology Mobile and G-Technology Desktop product families. G-Technology specializes in the Mac consumer and prosumer market sector, offering drives that ship pre-formatted for Mac OS X environments.

To say HP was active during their HP Discover 2012 event in Las Vegas this week is a bit of an understatement. The event was very much storage-focused, HP touted a range of new hardware, services and software ranging from StoreOnce data backup and deduplication to specialized cloud solution for airlines. There was a core message evident throughout

GridIron Systems has announced that MultiPlan has adopted its All-Flash OneAppliance TurboCharger to better meet service level agreements (SLAs), produce business intelligence reports, and deliver increased functionality to concurrent users. MultiPlan processes in excess of 110 million claims per year and services 900,000 contract healthcare providers and 57 million consumers. MultiPlan, a healthcare cost management

EMC has announced a suite of enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform for cloud storage environments, including new Atmos Cloud Accelerators that make it easier to move data in and out of Atmos-powered cloud storage. Each Atmos cloud provides hundreds of thousands of subscribers access to data powered by over 40 global service providers

One of the more popular trends in the enterprise SSD space is the movement toward eMLC and MLC NAND. The less expensive NAND still delivers much of the performance of the high-end SLC NAND, with substantially lower cost. Of course historically MLC NAND gives up endurance too, which is why the enterprise SSD market is

Iomega has announced the StorCenter px12-450r, a high performance storage solution for small and medium businesses, remote/branch offices and distributed enterprises. The px12-450r features the updated Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v2 and 8GB RAM. Iomega has simultaneously announced that their full line of StorCenter PX products will offer three years of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise starting

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has just announced its Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives will now offer consumers up to 1.5TB of storage. One of the new models also offers integrated NTFS drivers, allowing complete interoperability between Windows and OS X without the need for reformatting or compromises to maximum file size.