HP has created a package deal for small to medium businesses (SMB) who are trying to efficiently deploy and manage a server/storage environment for critical applications.  Many organizations have budgetary constraints that prevent them from getting the full suite of tools they need to support these infrastructures. With this announcement HP has shown they are supportive

WD has launched the EX4, a new 4-bay NAS in their My Cloud line for small businesses, pro users, workgroups and anyone looking for a reliable way to save, share, back up, stream and manage large amounts of digital data.  The My Cloud EX4 is similar to its brethren, the My Cloud, only it has more bays for

Dot Hill today launched a lineup of AssuredSAN 4004 storage devices based on the company’s ninth-generation RAID architecture, including 12Gb SAS arrays and first-to-market 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel/10Gb iSCSI converged interface models. The AssuredSAN 4004 platform is designed for high-bandwidth cloud services and vertical markets such as media and entertainment, oil and gas, telecommunications, big data analytics,

Cray today introduced Tiered Adaptive Storage, an open Hierarchical Storage Management solution for Big Data and supercomputing that has been developed in partnership with Versity Software. TAS is a complete software and hardware stack for large-scale tiered storage archives that leverages the Lustre file system and ensures data protection and accessibility at scale and during

Samsung hard drive storage, a division of Seagate, is now shipping the new 2.5-inch Spinpoint M9T, which is the world's first 9.5mm thin 2TB hard drive, satisfying the growing consumer demand for storage capacity in mobile applications.  The Spinpoint M9T mobile drive is offered in capacities of 1.5TB and 2TB and gives OEMs, channel system integrators

Sanbolic today announced the availability of Melio5.5, its infrastructure-agnostic data acceleration platform, which incorporates new features to optimize commodity servers and legacy flash, SDD, and HDD storage to better support scale-out implementations. The update includes new support for Write Once Read Many (WORM) devices in cross-datacenter, geo-distributed applications along with enhancements to QoS, dynamic volume expansion, node

Synology has announced the all-new DS214+ NAS optimized for small businesses. The new dual-bay NAS sets a new benchmark for price and performance with read/write speeds nearly doubling since its predecessor, the DS213+.  Additionally, the DS214+ takes full advantage of its new dual-NIC design by enabling link aggregation (LAG) for increased throughput and failover. With LAG

Starbaord Storage, who sold hybrid storage arrays, has told StorageReview they're closing down. According to the company, "we have decided to cease operations, and have begun a process to wind down the business." Clearly not everyone in the hybrid storage business was going to survive, though Starboard certainly had hoped for a better outcome. The

HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced that it is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive.  Revealed in September of last year, HGST’s HelioSeal platform makes way for higher capacity storage in the years to come while substantially lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). By using the inherent benefits of helium, the new Ultrastar