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 (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 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

In 2012, the phrase “big data” is on everyone’s lips, just like virtualization was five years ago. Also just like virtualization, and cloud computing, there is a lot of hype obscuring the more important discussions around IT challenges, skill sets needed and how to actually build an infrastructure that can support effective big data technologies.

Smart Storage Systems has introduced the CloudSpeed 500 Server-class SSD built with higher endurance to improve user TCO versus client-class drives used in server environments with a consumption model. With its SMART Guardian Technology, the CloudSpeed 500 delivers up to five times more endurance than server class SSD’s at consumer MLC value by leveraging cost

SolarWinds’ Virtualization Manager now allows users to manage both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments from a single pane of glass. Diversification of virtualization tools means that multi-platform virtualization management products have an advantage in the marketplace. While multiple hypervisors within an organization isn’t unusual, SolarWinds is betting that allowing users will be drawn to the

If Intel had its way, every hard drive would be replaced by an Intel powered SSD. Currently Intel offers products spanning small mSATA SSDs all the way up to eMLC-based high-endurance enterprise SSDs. Missing from this broad portfolio is a high-performance PCIe solution, to compete with others in the enterprise space including the LSI Nytro family,

Symantec has announced Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware to help organizations improve storage I/O performance and availability for VMware vSphere when customers move their tier one applications to virtual platforms with its better visibility and management of the underlying storage and improved availability of the virtual machine and applications. Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware automatically routes

Avere Systems has announced a new NAS architecture that will ensure that enterprise IT is best positioned to leverage the performance benefits of Flash, the consolidation benefits of virtualization, and the collaborative and economic benefits of the cloud. The new architecture for NAS boosts performance and removes storage bottlenecks created by legacy NAS architectures using