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Dell Ventures Announces Dell Fluid Data Storage Investment Fund

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Michael Dell announced the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund, a new $60 million early stage investment fund. This fund is part of Dell Ventures and offers a strategic complement to Dell’s existing M&A, R&D, and partnership channels for the development and monetization of new storage intellectual property.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Fusion-io ioDrive Duo Enterprise PCIe Review

As part of StorageReview’s continued advancements in both testing protocol and enterprise lab development, we’re taking a renewed look at first generation flash drives that we have previously reviewed. These re-reviews of early PCIe flash storage devices gave us the opportunity to refine and re-calibrate our enterprise review process before rolling out new reviews of

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Enhance Technology Announces EnhanceRAID E500FR 5-Drive SMB Storage

Enhance Technology has announced the release of its new EnhanceRAID E500FR 5-drive desktop storage solution with hardware RAID controller. The E500FR offers a variety of operational modes and capacity options designed to serve SMB applications including data backup, DVR, server/database storage, and digital media production.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

DataCore Launches SANsymphony-V 9.0 With Storage Virtualization Features

DataCore has announced that SANsymphony-V 9.0, its hardware-independent storage hypervisor solution, offers new cloud storage infrastructure functionality. The new version of SANsymphony targets organizations planning private cloud deployments, data centers implementing cloud-like services, and cloud service providers (CSPs) developing public, private and hybrid cloud offerings.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

HP’s Expanded X5000 Storage Portfolio Targets Unstructured SMB Data

The HP X5000 Storage portfolio now offers increased capacity and small form factor (SFF) drive support to help small and medium-sized businesses manage the growth of unstructured data. X5000 Storage is a highly available clustered file storage platform designed in collaboration with Microsoft to integrate the X5000 hardware platform with Microsoft’s SMB ecology so that

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

LSI SandForce AES Encryption Strength Flaw Revealed

Intel sent a moderate chill through the SSD world this afternoon by announcing that their Intel SSD 520 is getting a spec change from AES 256-bit encryption to AES 128-bit encryption. As it turns out, the problem affects all SandForce SF-2000 series controllers (SF-2200 consumer and SF-2500 enterprise controllers) and spec change announcements from all

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Supermicro Technologies for Energy Efficiency, Cloud and High-Performance Computing

Super Micro Computer is showing of a full range of computing solutions for large scale IT deployments including X9 Server Solutions, Serverboards, SuperBlade, SuperWorkstations, and SuperStorage systems with Intel Xeon E5-2600/4600/2400 and E3-1200 v2 series processors. They also recently demonstrated integrated solutions in a SuperRack with their 10GbE top-of-rack network switch and Server Management Software

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Corsair Announces Neutron 4th Generation SSDs with New Link-A-Media Devices Controller

Corsair announced the Neutron SSD series, which will be the first consumer SSDs to feature the LM87800 6Gb/s SSD controller from Link-A-Media Devices (LAMD). All Neutron models will incorporate LAMD on-the-fly error correction and NAND management technologies to improve the flash memory endurance. The Neutron Series GTX drives also include adaptive DSP technology for improved

Consumer  ◇  SSD

New EMC VMAX Enterprise Storage Family Offers Support for the Hybrid Cloud

EMC has announced specifications for its new VMAX Family, consisting of the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and the newest VMAX 40K. The VMAX Family is built on EMC’s Virtual Matrix Architecture which provides the enterprise information infrastructure for deploying hybrid clouds. This architecture is complemented by new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend VMAX

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

EMC Announces OnDemand for Life Sciences and Plant and Facilities Management and Updated Documentum D2

EMC has announced new solutions for Life Sciences and Engineering, Plants and Facilities Management companies via EMC OnDemand and the next version of EMC Documentum D2 for configuring Documentum interfaces. The company also announced reaching the milestone of 45 approved partner solutions during the first full year of its EMC Certified Solution Program. The certifications