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

Following up on several announcements at Dell Enterprise Forum earlier this year, Dell has announced the availability of Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4, and the shipment of Dell Compellent arrays with all flash and hybrid configurations. Storage Center 6.4, amongst other things, unlocks a new MLC-based SSD storage tier. Dell Compellent already supports high-speed SLC SSDs along

The Virtual Instruments ProbeFC8-HD48 is the industry’s first 48-port, real-time 8G line rate monitoring solution for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks, which significantly improves the monitoring capabilities of SANs with improved efficiency and reduced cost. With 6 times the density of the original ProbeFC8-HD48 and using 75% less rack space, this probe will lower the

Unitrends has announced availability of Unitrends Release 7.2, the latest version of the software that powers the company’s Unified Data Protection physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances. Release 7.2 also expands Unitrends Enterprise Backup to support Debian 7.0, Ubuntu 13.04, Oracle 11g on Linux and Solaris, and VMware resource pools. New features are specifically aimed

Emulex is releasing a data capture appliance entitled EndaceFlow 3040 that will be capable of providing depth of information regarding the management of application and network performance. These products are designed to assist network and application infrastructure administrators in four categories: prevention of issues/anomalies, detection/alerting, response, and determination of root cause. All of the 4 appliances

WD has introduced its new My Cloud family of personal cloud solutions, a complete solution for consumers and enthusiasts to organize, centralize, and secure all their data from all of their computers and mobile devices. This is achieved by simply connecting a My Cloud personal cloud drive to the Internet, which then gives their device

The last two weeks has seen quite a bit of nonsense in the flash-array space. Some of it revolves around good old-fashioned competition in a space that receives a ton of media attention, but most of it revolves around claims of who’s the fastest in a given test. The main event has been a slap-fest