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

OCZ Technology has announced that its Deneva 2 Series SSDs will be used as the storage device of choice in a pending ‘Data-Scope’ research project at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), which will be used to create servers for scientific data processing. The project will be led by Dr. Alexander Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor in the university’s

LSI has launched a revamped portfolio of storage solutions around PCIe SSDs, caching and RAID products. Originally coined the WarpDrive 2, the 2nd-generation WarpDrive falls under the new LSI product family as the LSI Nytro WarpDrive. The rest of the portfolio takes on LSI Nytro branding and includes the Nytro XD PCIe SSD with intelligent caching

OWC recently announced its latest enterprise SSD offering, the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G. While related to their Mercury Extreme Pro 6G client SSDs, the Enterprise Pro has plenty of upgrades to make it ready for both entry and mainstream enterprise duties. The Extreme Pro features the SandForce SF-2582 enterprise SSD controller, Toshiba 24nm eMLC Toggle NAND, enterprise