SMART Storage Systems and Diablo announced an exclusive partnership that will combine Guardian Technology from Smart and Memory Channel Storage (MCS) from Diablo to create a new breed of ultra low latency (ULL) SSDs and system accelerators. These forthcoming products will attempt to create another transition in the market. For performance-intensive needs, the shift has

Fusion-io has announced that it has acquired NexGen Storage, a developer of hybrid storage appliances based on Fusion ioMemory designed for SME customers. Nexgen combines ioMemory and disk drives with ioControl software on x86 servers to create hybrid systems that offer flash-array performance at a far lower cost. Fusion-io's NexGen acquisition tacks on to their

Exablox has announced the release of their OneBlox scale-out NAS with SMB and CIFS network protocols that includes cloud-based management as well as features such as inline deduplication, zero-configuration expansion and continuous data protection. With OneBlox, Exablox is trying to eliminate long installation times, flaky security and upgrades that require lots of configurations and changes.

HP has announced new and updated StoreVirtual models which are the third generation of LeftHand Storage products and are part of HP’s Converged Storage. The new model is the blade-based HP StoreVirtual 4630 Storage while the HP StoreVirtual models 4330 and 4730 have been updated to include Fibre Channel connectivity for scalable storage supporting virtualization

WD is announcing the shipment of the very first 2.5" hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs) in an ultra-slim 5mm form factor that are being offered in a 500GB capacity. The WD Blue comes in an HDD version while the WD Black is the hybrid model. WD has produced both of these new drives

WD is announcing the immediate shipment of its new WD Xe 2.5" 10K SAS hard drive targeting the enterprise market. WD Xe drives are designed for data servers to replace legacy storage that is nearing end-of-life, and with the adapter they won’t require organizations to lose their existing investments’ value by completely turning away from

Mellanox is announcing its ConnectX-3 Pro 10/40 gigabit Ethernet adapter cards with hardware offload engines that are the first interconnect cards to support overlay networks found in cloud environments including VXLAN and NVGRE. ConnectX-3 Pro cards enable cloud providers to build much larger-scale infrastructures without having to rely overly much on CPU overhead. This is

Kaminario is announcing the release of their K2 all-Flash storage array that is now in its fourth generation and provides top-level performance to medium-sized businesses. The Kaminario K2 v4 is based on SPEAR (Scale-Out Performance Storage Architecture), which means that not only do the systems benefit from scaling-up capacities, but also enhanced compute power. This

Nimble Storage is announcing its new validated reference architecture called SmartStack for private cloud deployments on Microsoft’s technology  which consists of a Nimble Storage CS200 Series 3U system, Cisco USC C-Series rack-mount server platform, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center 2012. Microsoft’s private cloud Fast Track is a reference architecture for