The MegaRAID 9600 series is a third-generation storage adapter that supports SATA, SAS, and NVMe drives, designed to deliver the best possible performance and data availability for storage servers. Compared to the previous generation, the 9600 series offers a 2x increase in bandwidth, over 4x increase in IOPs, 25x reduction in write latency, and 60x

GRAIDTM made waves last year by introducing an NVMe “RAID card.”  Of course, it wasn’t exactly a RAID card at all, but an NVIDIA GPU, paired with GRAID’s software. The net results were astonishing, their first-gen card was able to hit nearly 9 million 4K random read IOPS with minuscule latency, with just 8 SSDs.

GRAID Technology announced the release of the SupremeRAID SR-1010, and according to the press release, “the world’s fastest NVMe/NVMeoF RAID card designed to deliver the full potential of PCIe Gen4 systems in enterprise data centers.” The SupremeRAID SR-1010 increases the performance of both reads and writes while maintaining data protection.

GRAID Technology launched its first product over the summer, designed to handle modern throughput challenges that have been introduced by NVMe SSDs. GRAID SupremeRAID, so the claim goes, is “the world’s first NVMe RAID card to deliver 100% available SSD performance.” The little bit of marketing aside, GRAID does hit at a very real issue,

Today, CTERA released a new version of their Enterprise File Services Platform, 7.0. Liran Eshel and Zohar Kaufman founded CTERA Networks (commonly referred to as just CTERA) in May of 2008. Liran is currently serving as the company’s CEO. Zohar Kaufman left CTERA two years ago in 2018 to found Portshift. CTERA’s first product was

Microsemi announced that it was expanding its Adaptec Smart Storage 12Gbps SAS/SATA adapters family with two new additions, the SmartRAID 3162-8i and SmartRAID 3162-8i /e. The SmartRAID 3162-8i offers support for write cache data protection by putting a super capacitor on the adapter. The SmartRAID 3162-8i /e is purported to be the industry’s first raid

Today at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Marvell introduced its new family of high-performance RAID storage controllers, the Marvell 88RC13xx family. This new product line features eight 6Gbps SATA ports, four lanes of PCI Express 3.0, and a 10Gbps USB 3.1 device port with Type-C connector support. Marvell states that its product line consists of a

Brocade has announced the release of their Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking, the Brocade G620, indicating that the new high-density SAN switch will boast unprecedented performance and scalability designed to support data growth and demanding workloads from mission-critical applications. Brocade adds that their Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology will allow organizations to

Today QLogic Inc. is announcing that it is currently shipping its new Gen 6, 32Gb Fibre Channel Adapters, the QLogic 2700 series.  According to QLogic its new series of adapters will enable greater virtualization density and improved database performance, combined with increased operational efficiency. QLogic is also announcing that its QLogic 2690 Series Enhanced Gen