As with most SSD vendors, OCZ regularly updates SSD firmware across their SSD product lines. The company offers a one-stop firmware shop for all of their products, including SSDs like the Vector, Vertex 450, RevoDrive 3 X2, Octane, Agility 3, and RevoDrive Hybrid. Most firmware updates are relatively minor, but occasionally OCZ will release firmware

STEC is announcing the immediate availability of the first Micro SAS SSD that is shipping as part of the expanded sTec s800 family of SAS drives. The new 1.8" SFF (small-form-factor) Micro SAS SSDs are available through sTec and its distributors in 200GB and 400GB capacities. These drives are engineered for implementation in blade servers

Diablo Technologies is announcing its Memory Channel Storage (MCS), which uses the standard RDIMM memory interface to support the lowest latency for SSD storage attached via the DDR-3 CPU channel. This technology represents a drastic improvement in latency reduction, which ranges from 85% compared with PCIe based SSD storage to as great as a 96%

The Intel SSD 530 is being announced and features 20nm MLC NAND as well 2.5", mSATA and M.2 form factors to meet loads of ultra-mobility applications. The SSD 530 ships in capacities up to 480GB depending on the form factor. The 2.5" form factor SSD 530 delivers the greatest array of capacity options with 80, 120,

SanDisk has announced its new Connect line of battery-powered wireless flash memory devices which are designed to streamline the process of sharing storage across mobile and personal computer platforms. The first two products in the Connect line are the Connect Wireless Flash Drive and the Connect Wireless Media Drive which are each initially available at

Buffalo has announced the availability of its TeraStation 3000 series of high performance NAS and iSCSI unified storage devices for SMB. TeraStation 3000 solutions are oriented towards small offices and prosumers needing RAID-supported network storage. Buffalo is now shipping the TeraStation 3400, a pedestal desktop unit, and the TeraStation 3400r, its 1U rackmount counterpart. The

Fusion-io is making the first open source software contribution with its nonvolatile memory key-value interface to flash, NVMKV. MySQL databases MariaDB and Percona Server already support the Atomic Writes API. Enabling a processor to write multiple simultaneously independent storage sectors as a single storage transaction, Atomic Writes streamlines data writes to improve performance. Atomic Writes

Winning the Best of Interop award for the Data Center and Storage area, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator is a tightly integrated hardware and software solution that provides Microsoft SQL Server acceleration in a transparent fashion. SQL Server testing of OLAP and OLTP loads has resulted in performance gains of up to 25x! This is achieved

Seagate is now shipping its new Enterprise Turbo Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD), first in its class and billed at up to three times the random performance of current 15K RPM enterprise hard drives. Available in capacities up to 600GB, the Enterprise Turbo marks a new balance between capacity and performance that promises SSD-like speeds