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 G-Technology USB 3.0 Portable and Desktop Storage Devices Announced
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.
HP Discover 2012 Roundup
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 OneAppliance Yields Gains for MultiPlan’s Healthcare Big Data
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 Atmos Enhancements for Globally-Distributed Storage
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
STEC Drives 24nm MLC NAND Endurance with CellCare Technology
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 StorCenter px12-450r NAS Announced
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 Canvio 3.0 External Hard Drives Offer 1.5TB, Better Mac-PC Interoperability
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.
HGST Announces New CinemaStar Hard Drives: Z7K500, C5K1000 & Z5K500
HGST (Hitachi) has announced a new line of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard drives for traditional and small form factor audio/video and consumer electronics markets. This is CinemaStar’s sixth generation, offering features and integrated technology for high-definition multi-stream DVRs, tuner-based set-top boxes as well as IPTV STBs, DVR-enabled TVs, audio systems and video surveillance systems.
Panzura Global Cloud Storage System Version 3.0 Released
Panzura has just announced a major update to the Panzura Operating System (PZOS) and Quicksilver Cloud Storage Controller today at Interop. PZOS and the Quicksilver controller are two critical components in Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System, which allows clients to integrate with existing infrastructures to present the cloud as local NAS backup storage. These technologies




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