While high-speed flash is one of the more alluring components of the storage market at large, most major companies that figure out how to use storage for a competitive advantage like to keep such accomplishments quiet. Thus we rarely hear about major deployments in any public way. Today though, Fusion-io has announced that Yelp, the

iXsystems has announced that their new FreeNAS Mini home and small office storage solution is now available. The new 4-bay Mini, which boasts an 8-Core 2.4GHz Intel CPU and dual Gigabit network links, was designed from the ground up and extensively based on feedback received from the FreeNAS community. Aside from the powerful CPU, the Mini

Toshiba America has announced new additions to the enterprise capacity hard disk drives, the AL13SXB and the self-encrypting AL13SXQ. Toshiba's 2.5-inch form factor AL13SXB and AL13SXQ have 15mm z-height and spin at speeds of 15,000 RPM, which makes the AL13SX series ideal for mission critical enterprise storage applications.

WD has announced the My Cloud EX2, the newest addition to their line of personal cloud storage devices, offering a feature-rich, stable, and secure network storage solution of up to 8TB. The EX2 is designed specifically for small businesses, pro users, workgroups and anyone else looking for a reliable way to save, share, back up,

OCZ Storage Solutions today announced the availability the new Z-Drive 4500 PCIe series, an update to the successful Z-Drive R4. The Z-Drive 4500 uses 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND flash and is available in 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB. The Z-Drive 4500 integrates with OCZ’s new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software, a flash management and caching solution for Microsoft

AVG, primarily known for its family of anti-virus and Internet security software solutions, has announced that it will be shutting down its free Cloud storage service this year, AVG LiveKive. AVG has stated that it will continue to allow users to upload files until the end of March of this year; however, starting in April,

BAE Systems has announced the launch of its TeraStar system for commercial customers, which focuses on redefining the economics of big data storage. The TeraStar system is a data storage solution specifically designed to meet the big data storage needs of next-generation government and military all the while accommodating the cost and size needs of small to medium

Nexenta has announced the latest release of NexentaStor, version 4.0, the award-winning SDS solution and a vital part of the Software Defined Data Center. NexentaStor is a feature-rich NAS/SAN software platform with enterprise class capabilities, focusing on issues that arise due to ever-growing datasets and provides customers with the flexibility to choose their storage operating system independently

Teradata has announced its new certified solutions that significantly enhance backup, recovery and DR capabilities for all Teradata Database users.  These new certifications combine EMC’s latest Data Domain deduplication storage systems and Teradata’s latest Data Stream Architecture (DSA), which deliver new data protection options via Teradata’s Backup Archive and Recovery (BAR) solution to all of