Seagate has announced that it has now shipped more than a million SMR hard drives, saying that its technology will enable the manufacture of 20TB hard drives by the end of the decade. According to Seagate, the company's SMR technology will also allow the manufacture of 5TB drives in the nearer future. SMR is Seagate’s

Seagate has launched a new family of rackmount NAS products in their Seagate Business Storage line. The 1U designs accommodate standard 3.5" hard drives and come in 4-drive and 8-drive configurations for total capacity of up to 32TB. As the name implies these NAS units are deigned to slot into small business environments that need

Intel’s new SSD Professional Family leverages Intel’s track record for reliable enterprise SSDs to compete for a share of the market targeting performance ultrabook and workstations. The Pro 1500 Series, first in the SSD Professional Family, will be available in capacities from 80GB to 480GB in 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors and leverage LSI SandForce’s SF-2200

Hot on the heels of the pending sTec acquisition and the addition of VeloBit to subsidiary HGST’s flash portfolio, WD is shopping again, this time acquiring Virident for approximately $685 million in cash. HGST currently only offers enterprise SSDs with a SAS interface, so Virident’s FlashMax line of PCIe-based storage and the associated FlashMax Connect sever-side caching software make HGST’s product

I'm back in our Cincinnati-based lab after an insanely brief visit to Milan this week for EMC's much anticipated but hardly secretive launch of the "new VNX" and product updates, launches and so on. VNX2 was the highlight of the show of course, well, that and a menagerie of Formula 1 race cars from Lotus

PMC today introduced the Adaptec Series 8, a new family of 12Gb/s SAS RAID adapters which feature an end-to-end PMC architecture which incorporates PMC’s I/O protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, SAS expanders, Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers, and software. According to PMC, the Adaptec Series 8 improves on the performance of its previous generation of

EMC has announced new technology enhancements to its VNX line of storage solutions that aim to position them at the pinnacle of storage in data center environments. Dubbed EMC VNX2 by the industry if not EMC themselves, the new VNX incorporates substantial changes to the platform that are highlighted by a new controller designed to

Acronis is announcing its vmProtect 9, which is capable of recovering data from several levels including hypervisor, virtual machine, and application. Supporting Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Microsoft Active Directory, vmProtect 9 is the most efficient and easy VMware vSphere backup solution for small and medium businesses and remote locations of larger enterprises. Using

Acronis is announcing its True Image 2014 software, the first automated, scheduled backup of full system images to the Acronis Cloud. True Image 2014 is the newest version of this personal backup software which enables users to maintain a full system image in a remote location so that they are protected from various issues like