If you listen to the proclamations of outspoken flash peddlers, we're to believe that hard drives are dead, near death, or at least reading over hospice pamphlets. With the ballooning data sets found in the enterprise though, it's easy to scoff at such claims declaring them the propaganda of an overactive marketing guy. The thing is,

Caringo has announced a major upgrade to CloudScaler (now CloudScaler3), featuring new software that extends Caringo’s object storage with authentication, authorization, metering, and S3 API support.  CloudScaler, in conjunction with CAStor, allows enterprises and service providers to deliver a rapidly scalable private or public cloud storage service that meets any storage SLA, supports the S3

LSI has announced that its LSI Nytro flash accelerator cards have been tested to help improve and amplify the performance of SQL Server 2014. The LSI Nytro line of PCIe flash accelerators are specifically designed to deliver high performance, reduce latency and a lower CPU burden for the most resource-heavy database applications and I/O-intensive workloads.  The development

PernixData has announced the availability of the newest version of PernixData FVP, software for virtualizing server-side flash memory, with new features designed for ubiquitous storage acceleration.  With the updated FVP software, companies can accelerate any virtualized application using server RAM and/or flash, making it ideal for deployment in any server environment. FVP can also be

SanDisk and Toshiba have announced they expect to begin volume shipments of 15nm NAND in the second half of this year. Thus far production quality NAND has largely crept down to the 19/20nm range. The joint venture will ramp the 15nm flash technology into two bits-per-cell and three bits-per-cell NAND flash memory architectures. The work will be done in Fab

Pure Storage has announced it has closed a $225 million Series F funding round with a pre-money valuation of over $3 billion. The round comprised of contributions from previous public market investors, such as T. Rowe Price Associates, Tiger Global, and new investor, Wellington Management Company. In addition, the round also included participation from prior

HP has announced XP7 Storage, an enterprise-class storage disk array that provides customers with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for traditional storage workloads in mission-critical environments. HP XP7 Storage offers a combination of six 9s (i.e. 99.9999 percent) uptime, meaning less than 31.5 seconds of application downtime per year as well as always-on disaster recovery

HP, in collaboration with Samsung, has announced the HP Z Turbo Drive, an ultra-fast, affordable and efficient PCIe drive for workstations. Designed to address industry dramatic change to accommodate larger files as well as the amount of big data, the HP Z Turbo Drive is a small, extended capacity PCIe SSD that addresses this file storage bottlenecks associated with extremely

Violin Memory has announced the general availability of the Windows Flash Array (WFA), which was jointly developed with Microsoft. The Violin WFA is the industry’s first all-flash high-performance storage array powered by Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, providing feature-rich functionality and data services for the enterprise. With its impressive speed and efficiency, Windows Flash Array