When SanDisk invested $327 million to acquire Pliant one thing was clear; SanDisk saw an opportunity to leverage their expertise in NAND and storage with Pliant’s SAS controller knowledge and storage technologies to create class-leading enterprise SSDs that would excel in both performance and reliability. The current result is the SanDisk Lightning enterprise SSD family

When evaluating SSDs in the consumer space, the buyer can get easily confused with the dizzying array of options. Rather than consolidating in the last year, the client SSD space continues to explode. Well, that's not entirely accurate, the number of manufacturers selling SSDs has increased, though the variation in solutions has not. To put

HGST has achieved interoperability between their 12Gb/s SAS drive, 12Gb/s SAS HBAs and expanders from LSI and PMC-Sierra. Doubling the data transfer rates of current-generation SAS interfaces is not enough to ensure broad adoption of 12Gb/s products — vendors like HGST that can guarantee backwards compatibility with existing enterprise storage systems will have an advantage

Teradata’s new Teradata 700 appliance is launching as part of an integrated offering, SAS High-Performance Analytics for Teradata, which uses in-memory analytics to distribute big data and data warehousing analytics in parallel across a pool of memory. The Teradata 700 is pre-loaded with SAS High-Performance Analytics and purpose-built to leverage SAS advanced analytics.

In early February, Hitachi added to their line of enterprise SSDs with the Ultrastar SSD400S.B. Following on the heels of the original SSD400S, the .B is the industry’s first to move to 25nm SLC NAND. Structurally, the two drives are nearly identical, it’s simply a NAND die change from 34nm SLC to 25nm SLC. Both drives

Marvell and Western Digital have announced a milestone in their decade-long business relationship. Since the partnership began in 2001, Marvell’s shipments to WD have increased significantly, now totaling over one billion units. WD and Marvell will build on this successful history to develop new storage solutions across a broad spectrum of applications and emerging technologies

Toshiba announced a new SSD to IP hardware engine called NPEngine, which is aimed to deliver video content off flash storage without requiring server CPU or memory. NPEngine is capable of delivering up to 64,000 streams simultaneously at rates up to 40Gb/s, which is well above the abilities of a standard server, at a fraction

Quest Software has announced the availability of vFundamentals, a new product suite that delivers best-in-class backup, capacity planning, and resource optimization for VMware virtual environments. vFundamentals gives virtualization administrators the ability to grow their virtual environments knowing, with confidence, that critical assets are properly utilized and protected. Quest’s new bundle includes Quest vRanger Pro, a

StorSimple has announced their new extended family of cloud-integrated enterprise storage appliances, including the StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020, and 7520 with their latest software version 2.0. With the newest software, the appliances support larger enterprise workloads as well as an increased storage capacity up to 100TB of local storage. Leveraging these new capabilities, the StorSimple