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

EMC’s Information Intelligence Group has announced broad updates to the company’s Documentum family of enterprise content management solutions, including a new InfoArchive product and the Captiva Mobile Toolkit. New SharePoint integration includes D2 4.X configuration support and the ability to checkout content from DCTM into a SharePoint library, then collaborate from SharePoint and check the

LSI has announced that Oracle selected Nytro flash accelerator cards for Oracle’s new Exadata X4 Database Machine, the latest in Oracle's line of integrated Exadata database solutions. Exadata X4 offloads SQL operations to Exadata Storage Servers with Nytro accelerator cards in order to perform data filtering and processing in parallel. Exadata customers will also be

Barracuda Networks  has announced its new Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering, which allows Barracuda Backup 190 and 390 to be purchased as an annual service, including an appliance, Energize Updates, Instant Replacement, and Unlimited Cloud storage. This new service gives customers an another method of purchasing Barracuda Backup with a smaller up-front cost, all the while still

Plextor has announced the M6 and M6e series lineup of solid-state drives, featuring their next-generation 2.5” M6S and M6M mSATA SSDs. Also introduced by Plextor is two new PCI-e drives: the M6e PCI-e SSD specifically designed for gaming, the ultra-fast M6e M.2 PCI-e and the new half height, half length (HHHL) PCI-e card.

Buffalo Technology has announced new storage solutions at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show, including the new MiniStation Air Wireless Portable Hard Drive (HDW-PD1.0U3), LinkStation 200 Series, and the LinkStation 420 Network Video Recorder (NVR).  

Synology America Corp will be previewing the next DiskStation Manager operating system, DSM 5.0, at this January's International CES 2014. This showing will give consumers a detailed look at DSM’s new streamlined interface and will also provide an opportunity to demonstrate several new and enhanced features. This will be one of the most significant updates to the

ioSafe has announced the ioSafe NAS 1513+, expanding its product line to secure and protect up to 90TB of data per system with a disaster proof NAS appliance powered by Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM). The ioSafe 1513+ is catered towards business and pro-­sumer markets, with the ability to store and protect massive data volumes and

LaCie has announced several new products at CES 2014, including the LaCie Fuel–a mobile, wireless hard drive for the iPad, iPhone, and Mac that doesn’t require Internet access; the LaCie Sphère, which is a handcrafted hard drive enclosed in a spherical case of silver-plated steel; the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2–one of the first storage solutions