Seagate has announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Baidu–China’s largest web services firm–in the industries of low-cost online storage, archiving, and Big Data analysis.

Toshiba has launched EXCERIA UHS-I SD Memory Cards, their new line of EXCERIA products. Meant for professional or amateur photographers and videographers, the new EXCERIA memory cards are designed for continuous shooting and full HD (including 4K resolution) video and are available in a wide-range of sizes at an affordable price tag.

Caringo has announced that it has been awarded a patent for erasure coding and replication in storage clusters. The patent covers the “combining of replication and erasure coding managed by the storage cluster in order to take advantage of the benefits of each without needing control computers or control databases.” Caringo’s patents are current deployed

Toshiba has introduced the TransMemory ID USB 3.0 Flash Drive, a simple storage solution for the travelling consumer who needs a way to organize their growing collection of digital files.

Today NetApp announced the launch of their all-flash array (AFA), FlashRay and its operating system Mars OS. We first previewed FlashRay last year. FlashRay is NetApp's third all-flash storage array offering, the others being EF-series and the FAS series.

A3CUBE Inc. introduced its new building block software solution, Fortissimo Foundation. Working in concert with A3CUBE's previously announced RONNIE Express platform, Fortissimo Foundation will provide improvements in application performance and data center efficiency, and is particularly aimed at unstructured, Big Data environments.

PMC-Sierra Inc. announced today that the company is the first to ship 16-port 12Gb/s SAS and 16-port 6Gb/s SATA I/O Controllers for data center servers. The new controller solutions are aimed at OEMs and ODMs who want to design low-cost customized server hardware for hyperscale deployment such as Open Compute, Windows Cloud Servers, OpenStack, and

VMware Inc. has announced the general availability of new solutions as well as updates to some of their current solutions. The new solutions and updates are aimed at helping businesses build, manage, and protect their software-defined data center environments. They include: VMware NSX 6.1, VMware vCloud Suite 5.8, VMware vRealize Operations Insight, VMware vRealize Suite 6,

Permabit today announced the general availability of its new Albireo SANblox, a 1U data efficiency appliance for Fibre Channel primary storage. SANblox utilizes Permabit’s Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) and HIOPS Compression software to implement inline data efficiency processing that can be selectively applied to data that can benefit from deduplication or compression as it