Samsung has announced the release of its Samsung SSD 840 EVO which updates the company’s existing value line of TLC-based SSDs by offering up to 1TB of flash storage at higher performance levels. The 840 Evo features 19nm, 128Gb NAND flash memory, some of the smallest NAND dies available. Samsung started developing their tiny TLC

Micron is announcing the sampling of its 16nm, 128Gb MLC NAND flash memory devices, which are now the smallest in the industry. The 16nm, 128Gb solution along with Micron’s other 128Gb offerings are designed for applications in devices such as SSDs, USB thumb drives and flash memory cards, tablets, ultrathin devices and data center cloud

LSI is announcing the introduction of its SAS 9300 HBA family that consists of 4 Host Bus Adapters which accelerate storage and meet the high performance applications requirements for a range of environments. Those include transactional databases, Web 2.0, data mining, and video streaming and editing. Optimized for the latest specification of PCI Express 3.0,

EMC is announcing an all-cash deal to acquire ScaleIO, a developer of server-side software that will augment EMC’s Flash offerings. EMC will incorporate ScaleIO into its EMC Flash Product Division, and ScaleIO’s software will be combined with EMC’s PCIe Flash cards, such as their EMC XtremSF, in Enterprise Private Cloud and Service Provider environments. ScaleIO’s

LaCie is announcing an update of its NAS OS 3 to v3.1 that powers the LaCie 5big NAS Pro and 2big NAS storage solutions. Amongst other professional feature enhancements, the most significant improvements enhance hybrid cloud capabilities and deliver a 25% increase in RAID 5 write speeds. The RAID 5 write speeds have been increased

Hitachi Data Systems is announcing significant enhancements to its Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP). These improved solutions are designed to keep pace with continued data growth by offering double the performance of previous generation models while still driving

WD is announcing its acquisition of VeloBit which creates high-performance storage I/O optimization software. The software adds a transparent acceleration layer that utilizes SSDs to drive performance. WD will wholly integrate Lincoln, MA based VeloBit into its subsidiary HGST to further drive HGST’s continued push to deliver value for datacenter storage by utilizing software to

EMC is announcing new hardware and software products for Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy that meet the requirements of modern data protection challenges. EMC Data Domain systems deliver up to 27x more scalability than the closest competitor, eliminating storage silos by consolidating all backup and archive data on a single protection storage platform. Enhancements

Seagate is announcing its Terascale HDD and Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 enterprise-class drives that have been optimized for both cloud infrastructures and data centers. The drives deliver high-end capacities at 4TB for the Terascale and 1.2TB for the Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7, while still delivering low power consumption figures to drive a lower TCO than