OCZ has announced plans to release a smaller Z-Drive R4 designed to be compliant with the Open Compute Project. The current Z-Drive R4 is a full-height 3/4-length card; the new one is full-height, half-length. The smaller R4 will be able to fit in a greater variety of compute platforms, giving OCZ a more data-center compliant application

The Micron P420m is an enterprise application accelerator that ranges up to 1.4TB in total capacity that leverages the PCIe interface and is uniquely offered in both a half-height, half-length (HHHL) and 2.5" form factors. Micron has opted for 25nm MLC NAND for the P420m to meet not only mainstream market requirements for performance and reliability,

The SMART Storage Systems (a SanDisk company) CloudSpeed 1000 is a 7mm 2.5" enterprise SSD engineered for server and cloud computing environments. The drive offers a 6Gb/s SATA interface, capacities from 100GB to 960GB, and utilizes 19nm MLC NAND with specialized features designed to offer high endurance. The CloudSpeed 1000 from Smart comes in two variations,

The Huawei Tecal ES3000 is a family of full-height half-length enterprise application accelerators that leverage MLC NAND in capacities up to 2.4TB and PCIe interface (2.0 x8). On the surface the Huawei cards sound similar to many other products on the market, but a deeper look reveals a unique triple controller design that joins two

LSI SandForce is announcing its DuraWrite Virtual Capacity (DVC) which is a unique SandForce flash controller feature that extends the available storage capacity for data beyond the physical capacity of the underlying flash memory. Utilizing a compression algorithm, DVC can extend the capacity of an SSD by more than 3x the physical size of the

Samsung is announcing the first SSD based on its 3D V-NAND technology which is designed for enterprise server and data center applications. The announcement has been made at the Flash Memory Summit in which we are participating. The new V-NAND SSD will ship in 960GB and 480GB capacities. The 960GB V-NAND SSD interfaces over SATA

Imation is announcing the newest version of RDX Media Secure client software, and that it will now include Retrospect 8 backup software with its RDX Removable HDD Storage Systems. The new Imation RDX Media Secure software upgrades center around improving usability, while the Retrospect 8 inclusion protects organizations from losing critical data on their servers,

Diablo Technologies is announcing its Memory Channel Storage (MCS), which uses the standard RDIMM memory interface to support the lowest latency for SSD storage attached via the DDR-3 CPU channel. This technology represents a drastic improvement in latency reduction, which ranges from 85% compared with PCIe based SSD storage to as great as a 96%

The Samsung 840 Evo is the company’s latest mainstream SSD that differentiates itself in the market with features and components that benefit from Samsung’s vertical integration approach including its own 19nm 128Gb TLC NAND, proprietary firmware and newest-gen multi-core MEX controller. Capacities on the 840 Evo range from 120GB all the way up to a full 1TB