CMS Products and Wave have announced availability of the first-ever external self-encryping drive (SED) that meets the Opal standard, the CE Secure DiskVault Wave Edition. The external hard drives will ship with Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager software for activating the drive’s advanced security features. The drive will be available in a 500GB capacity (CE-DVLTW-500).

CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management

Nimbus Data Systems, developer of Sustainable Storage, has unveiled its new E-Class Flash Memory System, the first fully-redundant multiprotocol solid-state SSD storage system. The E-Class outperforms and costs less to operate than typical disk arrays and provides the high-availability, scalability, and cost reduction that enterprises and cloud providers require.

OCZ has released a new firmware for the Octane SSD family that up to doubles random write IOPS performance in some capacities. Firmware v1.13 is designed for Octane SATA 6Gb/s SSDs and is available for download now. 

The growing popularity of SSDs has not only affected the business realm, but also with gaming enthusiasts. More and more gaming consumers are pushing manufacturers to use SSDs instead of hard disk drives in their new machines; Razer, one of the global leaders in gaming peripherals for desktops, is a prime example of receiving–and capitulating

ExaGrid Systems, a leader in cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, have announced that it has been awarded the Ready for IBM Tivoli support (TSM) certification. ExaGrid achieved this distinction by having IBM Tivoli testing teams validate that their EX Series appliances are seamlessly integrated and fully compatible with the Tivoli storage management

STEC, Inc. has announced its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across Fujitsu’s ETERNUS DX storage system portfolio, including the next-generation ETERNUS DX8700 S2 Enterprise Storage System. ETERNUS DX8700 S2 supports multiple open system environments and virtualized infrastructures with the integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs, and delivers the high-end storage reliability, performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency

Cloud storage company, Box, has announced three new easy-to-use security features for administrators and users: Smart Links, Trusted Access, and Groups AD.

EMC Corporation has unveiled the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), the industry’s single, unified next-generation data analytics platform to support Big Data analytics. The new platform is extensible to other tools and supports the analytics process by facilitating the discovery and sharing of insights from Big Data, which results in much greater business value.