HGST is announcing a summer release for their new 12Gb/s MLC SAS SSD family, the first 12Gb/s SAS SSDs on the market. Three models comprise the new line including the Ultrastar SSD800MH, Ultrastar SSD800MM and Ultrastar SSD1000MR. The new SAS SSDs utilize co-developed Intel/HGST controllers as well as high endurance 25nm MLC NAND. HGST designed

AC&NC announced the JetStor 712U suite of ZFS-based unified storage systems that can function simultaneously both as NAS and SAN and are designed for SMBs. These systems support both SAS and SATA drives so that businesses can achieve performance and capacity to meet the needs of archiving and application speeds. These 12-bay 2U Jetstor platforms

G-Technology announced the launch of several new products today including the Evolution Series family and the G-Drive Pro. The Evolution Series is totally new and has been specifically designed with creative professionals such as media editors in mind. The series includes the G-Dock ev with two Thunderbolt ports as well as two drives which both

Promise Technology announced its new turnkey SAN storage device, the VTrak A-Class designed to be used by creative professionals in storage-intensive applications such as post-production, broadcast, data asset management and archiving. Multiple clients running a variety of operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) can access a shared SAN over Fibre Channel. To meet

LSI announced an expansion of their OEM relationship with Intel that will make LSI’s Nytro MegaRAID PCIe flash adapter technology built on LSI SandForce Flash Storage Processors available as part of Intel’s RAID product line. This news is being announced on the heels of flash technology picking up pace at an increasingly fast rate in

Fusion-io is announcing that their ioFX workstation acceleration platform will soon be available in a 1.6TB capacity connecting via PCIe and also that it will be available as an integrated solution in several HP Workstations. The ioFX 1.6TB adds to the already available 420GB model. The two ioFX models are designed for creative professionals working

Dell's Fluid Cache software has enabled Dell to begin offering solid state PCIe drives as flash memory to increase overall performance. This software comes in concert with the recent development that saw Dell acquire RNA technologies, which enables Dell to access new software that enhances flash memory performance. PCIe Application Accelerators, such as the Micron-based

LenovoEMC is announcing their next generation LifeLine 4.0 Operating System for Iomega NAS products which are now part of LenovoEMC. LenovoEMC LifeLine 4.0 OS features a variety of updated capabilities as well as new features. LifeLine 4.0 includes Integrated Virtualization Technology (IVX), Snapshots for the first time, SSD Cache Pools, iSCSI Security, Active Directory Hybrid

Seagate announced that it started shipping the Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (Seagate Desktop HDD.15), the industry’s only 4TB, 4 platter desktop hard drive with 1TB on each platter. Designed with home, SOHO, workstations and small businesses in mind, the drive is an update on what was previously called the Seagate Barracuda. Seagate claims that the