WD is announcing the WD Sentinel RX4100 to meet customer demand for a 1U rack-mount small business NAS that builds off of the success of the Sentinel DX4000 that we reviewed. One of the features that makes the RX4100 4-bay NAS attractive is its all-in-one build that includes hardware, software and service all from WD.

Kingston is announcing the KC300 SSD, the newest addition to its SSDNow family designed for client users in the enterprise, enthusiasts and mobile users who require maximum performance and energy efficiency. The KC300 replaces the Kingston V+200 and KC100 SSDs that we have reviewed. It also provides advanced power management via an LSI SandForce SF-2281

Mellanox is announcing their SwitchX-2 based SX1012 Ethernet switch which delivers 12 ports of 40GbE for small-scale, high performance computing. The SX1012 also has the industry’s smallest footprint with two SX1012 models fitting into 1U of a standard rack. Each of the 12 ports can be configured to deliver as much as 56GbE line rate

Pure Storage is announcing the immediate availability and shipment of the FlashArray 400 Series, its third generation all-flash enterprise storage array. The FlashArray 400 has twice as much storage capacity and performance at 100TB of usable all-flash capacity and up to 400,000 8k IOPS. It achieves these figures using Intel’s latest 8-core Sandy Bridge processor.

WD is announcing the availability of its new enterprise-class WD Se hard drives that range in capacities up to 4TB and are designed for scale-out datacenter deployments. The drives provide robust storage for large-scale replicated environments, mid-sized NAS deployment and backup and archiving. Being implemented in data centers that are seeing immense growth, the drives

The new DS1813+ NAS is Synology’s latest eight-bay desktop DiskStation. In addition to its internal storage, the DS1813+ offers a maximum raw capacity of 72TB via expansion units, as well as providing four gigabit NICs which can be aggregated for maximum read speeds of 350 MB/s and write speeds of 200 MB/s. The DS1813+ supersedes Synology’s DS1812+,

Dell is announcing several new products for Citrix XenDesktop 7 and XenApp that lower the cost of integrated storage, increase graphics capabilities and provide dual and quad-core processing to thin client desktops. By unifying applications, desktops and hosted VDI environments with a common management platform, Citrix XenDesktop 7 supports virtualized workloads based on Windows 8/Windows

Permabit Technology is announcing its Albireo Compress and Albireo Replica data compression and replication applications that integrate with Permabit Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO). Permabit already offers a comprehensive Linux-based software-defined-storage solution in VDO that features deduplication and thin provisioning. Compress works with VDO’s deduplication to reduce data storage requirements by as much as 35x.

HGST is announcing its new Travelstar 5K1500 which is the first 9.5mm, 1.5TB HDD to reach the market and is designed primarily for OEMs to install in their higher-end notebook computer offerings. The drive also meets applications such as inclusion in external devices and all-in-one PCs. The HGST Travelstar 5K1500 achieves its capacity expansion by