SMBs and SMEs are adding flash storage to their SAN infrastructures to take advantage of the lower latency and faster data transfer of PCIe based memory drives. With the announcement of ioControl 3.0, Fusion-io has provided Midrange customers with a solution to control their storage environment’s quality of service (QoS) for each specific application demand.

Planned for general availability in the first quarter of 2014, Sepaton’s VirtuoSO Data Protection platform addresses the challenges of supporting and protecting enterprise data growth will support up to 16 Petabytes, and affords providers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) with regard to enterprise data protection. Using the OptiScale File System, Sepaton is using an

HP today announced the mt41, a new laptop form-factor thin client with a 14-inch screen that is designed for mobile access through remote corporate, academic, and government infrastructures via the cloud. The mt41 runs Windows Embedded Standard 7E and features wired, wireless, and WWAN connectivity options and is offered with a choice of either AMD’s

HGST has announced that it is now shipping the MegaScale DC 4000.B, a new 3.5-inch, 4TB, 6 Gb/s SATA hard drive engineered for long-term data retention and other 24/7 environments that manage infrequently accessed data with less than 180TB transferred per drive, per year. According to HGST, the 4TB MegaScale DC 4000.B requires up to

WD has announced updates across the WD Black line of high-performance 7,200 RPM 3.5-inch hard drives. The WD Black family is available in capacities from 1TB to 4TB and is engineered for applications such as workstations, gaming PCs, and all-in-one devices that benefit from higher performance and high capacity. The refreshed drives feature model numbers

WD today introduced new Sentinel DS5100 and DS6100 ultra-compact servers, engineered to provide network storage in addition to the functionality offered by pre-installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. The Sentinel S-series features Intel Xeon quad-core processors and ships pre-populated with WD Se enterprise-class 3.5-inch hard drives offering up to 16 TB of raw storage as

LaCie and Porsche Design have announced the new Porsche Design USB Key, the latest addition to Porsche Design’s exclusive electronics line. The new key combines sleek design with top-in-class performance and features up to 32GB of capacity as well as USB 3.0 compatibility.

Synology is now shipping two additions to its lineup of SMB storage devices, the RS2414+ and RS2414RP+, each featuring 12 drive bays. Used in conjunction with matched Synology RackExpansion RX1214 and RX1214RP units, each of Synology’s new 2U NAS units can manage up to 24 drives and 96TB of total storage. The new RackStations share

Dot Hill has announced details about its new RAID storage architecture and storage controller platform, known by the codename Gallium, which will be introduced across the company’s entry level and midrange offerings this quarter. The new architecture supports 12 Gb SAS connectivity as well as converged implementations that leverage 16 Gb Fibre Channel, 10 Gb