WD has announced the immediate availability of new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives in capacities up to 4TB. The new RE drives are available in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2TB, 3TB and 4TB for SATA. The new drives use a 5-platter, 800GB per-platter design.

NetApp has announced that it has attained Oracle Validated Integration of the NetApp Storage System Plug-In version 1.0 using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. This extends the application-to-disk coverage of Oracle Enterprise Manager environments that include managed NetApp storage. Used in enterprise cloud environments, the NetApp Storage System Plug-In boasts comprehensive availability, performance, and configuration information

Dell has announced it has begun shipping its first EqualLogic PS-M4110 storage blade arrays, a single PowerEdge M1000e chassis solution that consolidates the blade arrays with 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge blade servers and Dell Force10 and PowerConnect network switches in one device. EqualLogic solutions are designed for applications like turnkey remote office deployments which

AC&NC has introduced the new JetStor SAS 716U and 724U RAID systems, designed to integrate storage in mixed NAS and IP SAN environments. Both platforms are intended for small and medium businesses looking to leverage unified storage technology with features including compression, deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning, and unified authentication.

Between 2010 and 2015, IDC predicts that shipments of Solid State Drives are expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 52 percent on a global basis. The corresponding surge in enterprise server and storage adoption means that a deeper understanding of critical components such as media management and the use of new

Dell has announced a pair of new hybrid storage arrays with enhanced integration with VMware, the EqualLogic PS6510ES and PS6500ES. The iSCSI arrays are designed for highly virtualized environments, with these two platforms designed specifically with virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) in mind. The 4U rack enclosures bring EqualLogic’s customary ease of use and the benefits

 Intel 7-series chipsets with Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 11.2 drivers will support TRIM for RAID 0 in Microsoft Windows 7, functionality we first reported when a reference to RAID 0 TRIM appeared in the RST 11.5 alpha release notes. A spokesperson for Intel has also confirmed an update to the RST driverset that is in

The LSI Nytro WarpDrive WLP4-200 represents LSI’s second-generation effort in the enterprise PCIe application acceleration space. LSI builds on an extensive history of enterprise storage products with the newly rebranded line of acceleration products dubbed LSI Nytro. The Nytro family includes the PCIe WarpDrive of course, but also encompasses LSI’s Nytro XD caching and Nytro

AC&NC has announced a new JetStor 764F solution for high capacity, high demand enterprise applications. The JetStor 764F features four 8Gb/s fiber channel interfaces and four 6Gb/s SAS channel expanders. If used with 4TB drives, a single 4U 764F array supports up to 256TB of storage.