Dell is announcing expansion and differentiation in its converged infrastructure (CI) line to meet the applications of a wide-range of workplace requirements in medical, science, finance and other sectors. Dell’s CIs can be tailored for specific workloads and applications to enhance productivity and performance while reducing expenses. This announcement focuses on a few of Dell’s

Dell is introducing their PowerEdge VRTX which is a Private Cloud in a Box shared solution that comes in a tower form factor and is specifically designed for remote and small offices. The VRTX solution features support for up to four compute nodes, eight addressable PCIe slots, Gigabit Ethernet, support for 12 LFF HDDs or

LSI is announcing that their SandForce SF-2200 client Flash Storage Processors (FSPs) now meet standards that enable SSD manufacturers to build drives that comply with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal specification, a specification designed for self-encrypting SSDs that simplifies deployment and management. The SandForce FSPs often found in corporate mobile computing meet the spec

SanDisk is announcing the release of the SanDisk Extreme II, U110 and i110 SSDs which are designed for OEMs and extend SanDisk’s line-up by offering drives that match a range of applications. The new Extreme II SSD is designed for high-performance computing for gamers, multimedia enthusiasts and other users who require high IOPS. The U110

The world’s thinnest 1TB HDD, the WD Blue 7mm, 2.5" form factor drive, is now in shipment having been designed to meet the requirements of form-factor constrained applications such as ultra-thin notebooks. The drive is shipping in capacities that range from 320GB to 1TB, all in the 7mm height. The WD Blue also features compatibility

LSI has announced the availability of its Syncro CS which is a robust, cost-effective, and easy to deploy high availability storage solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Syncro CS brings shared storage and storage controller failover into DAS environments at a fraction of the cost. Additionally, it drastically reduces the complexity of traditional high availability

PMC is announcing the Adaptec 78165, the industry’s first low-profile, 24-port PCIe Gen3 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapter which makes for even denser architectures for scale-out and space-constrained environments. The Adaptec 78165 is PMC’s latest addition to their Adaptec Series 7 RAID adapter family. Naturally, with 24-port connectivity, the new PMC offering more than triples existing

Mellanox is announcing the immediate general availability of their Virtual Modular Switch (VMS), an Ethernet data center aggregation switch infrastructure. Mellanox VMS is constructed by connecting Mellanox’s SwitchX-2 based 40 and 56GbE systems in a non-blocking topology and is managed using Puppet and Chef management applications. Mellanox VMS provides up to 720 ports of 40Gb/s

Broadcom is announcing the release of the new StrataGX BCM5862X Series processors designed for wired and wireless NAS devices and routers. The new processors deliver ten times the performance as well as ARM-based FlexSPARX security and storage features that support hybrid cloud services. This is essential as many new NAS devices are designed to support