Today Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd announced that they are mass-producing the industry’s first NVMe PCIe M.2 SSDs made specifically for PC and workstations, the SM951-NVMe. Samsung also announced that it has begun shipping the SM951-NVMe to OEMs for the PC market. This is the same technology HP announced last week in its Z Turbo Drive and

Today Nexenta announced that their user community is growing in record numbers. The Nexenta User Community is a forum for thousands of IT professionals to discuss that latest software-defined storage solutions (SDS) and gives them the ability to work with new open source releases unavailable anywhere else. Participation in the Community drives Nexenta’s OpenSDS innovation,

Today WD, a Western Digital company, introduced a new high capacity 3.5” hard drive purpose built for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems, the WD Purple NV. The WD Purple NV comes in both 4TB and 6TB capacities and has a 3-year warranty.

Spectra Logic announced today a proof of concept integration of BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. This joint solution will provide seamless content management across sites, tiers and clouds. StorageGRID Webscale enables customers to utilize massively scalable object storage for media content while BlackPearl allows users to massive amounts of data forever for pennies per gigabyte.

Today Synology America Corp launched a new DiskStation, DS1515, as well as a new RackStation, RS815. These new storage solutions are aimed at businesses that are growing and need cost-effective enterprise features. Both of the new solutions run Synology’s award winning DiskStation Manger (DSM) 5.1 with all the features it includes, such as: remote access, scalability, unparalleled

Today Google made a series of updates to its Cloud Networking to continue to provide performance, reliability, and security for its customers. These updates include: General availability of Cloud DNS, an expansion of its load balancing solutions to 12 additional points of presence around the globe, a beta of Cloud Virtual Private Network (VPN), and

Today at the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters, Supermicro announced a new ultra-dense 4U JBOD platform, the 4U SuperStorage. The Superstorage holds up to 90 8TB 3.5” drives that are top-loaded and hot-swappable. The JBOD supports up to 720TB of SAS3, 12Gb/s performance. It also features dual hot-swap expander modules featuring 4 mini-SAS HD ports.

Today Quantum Corp announced that it would be expanding its tiered storage offerings by integrating Dot Hill’s full line of storage systems. This partnership is beneficial to both companies, giving Quantum an expanded range of solutions and Dot Hill will be able to use Quantum’s channel, sales, and market resources, and global service and support,

Today at the National Association of Broadcasters, CalDigit announced two new storage solutions. The first is a portable drive series that is designed to survive some rough treatment, the CalDigit Tuff series. The second storage solution announced is a 4-bay PCIe SSD RAID storage device, the T4 nano.