Lenovo has announced the 1U ThinkServer RD340 two-processor rack server, the storage-rich, 2U ThinkServer RD440 two-processor rack server, and the ThinkServer TD340, a new enterprise-grade, two-processor tower server, designed for customers who require full enterprise capability in a tower form factor. Additionally, Lenovo has unveiled the ThinkServer SA120, which is a modular and scalable rack-mount,

Seagate Technology has announced two new development tools related to its Kinetic Open Storage platform, the Seagate Kinetic Ethernet Drive interface and the Seagate Kinetic T-Card development adapter.  Both innovations are scheduled debut at OCP Summit V and also have been accepted by the Open Compute Foundation as important open standards available to Open Compute Project (OCP) solution

QLogic has announced the industry’s first Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA), the QLogic QOE2562 8Gb, specifically designed for use in Open Compute Project (OCP) servers. The QOE2562 8Gb Fibre Channel mezzanine HBA is capable of optimal security, maximum performance, and enterprise-class reliability and manageability to OCP data centers. The OCP was founded by Facebook

Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed Granite 2.6, which includes new features that support more branches, bigger data sets, and additional enterprise-class storage solutions, such as IBM Storwize V7000.  Riverbed Granite is a unique branch converged infrastructure solution that centralizes branch data in the data center all the while delivering local performance to branch users and allows storage to be decoupled from

Synology America has announced the public beta of its latest DiskStation Manager operating system, DSM 5.0, introducing users to the first major point-release of the platform-ubiquitous OS in nearly two years. DSM 5.0 comes with a variety of new features and performance enhancements that all consumers will find invaluable.

HP has announced the new HP StoreVirtual 4335 Storage system, a 1U software-defined hybrid storage solution for virtualized applications in SMB environments. StoreVirtual 4335 Storage incorporates HP’s Adaptive Optimization technology which profiles data access at 256KB granularity. High priority or high-demand data is migrated to SSD storage, while replicated data (RAID 10, RAID 10+1) and parity

Dot Hill has announced new Ultra48 AssuredSAN storage arrays in a 2U chassis with three drawers that each hold sixteen 2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs. Used with HDDs, the Ultra48 can serve approximately 58TB and leverage the performance of 2.5-inch enterprise drives and a spectrum of interconnect options. According to Dot Hill, the new arrays can

Emulex today announced its OneConnect OCe14000 family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet Virtual Network Adapters based on the company’s new Emulex Engine 100 controller. OCe14000 adapters are engineered for multi-tenant cloud environments, highly virtualized and converged infrastructures, and I/O intensive applications. Emulex Engine 100 controllers power Emulex’s Virtual Network Exceleration offload technology (VNeX) with concurrent stateless

In early December OCZ Technology filed for bankruptcy and at the same time announced plans by Toshiba to acquire OCZ's key storage assets including its engineering team and controller technology. Toshiba had previously worked to supply NAND for OCZ's SSDs, a deeper pairing made sense given the strengths of each company. Toshiba owns fabs and can create NAND; OCZ