A popular industry trend is to utilize ultra fast flash drives to cache data on servers for faster access for demanding business applications. Qlogic has gone a step further than most by having the data cached by these flash devices across a pool of servers on the SAN. FabricCache transforms a single-server captive cache into

Fusion-io announced its acquisition of ID7, a UK-based storage technology company founded in 2006. ID7 is known for software defined storage (SDS), open-source work in shared storage, and as the developers of SCSI target subsystem (SCST) storage subsystem for Linux. The two companies have already been working together developing the ION Data Accelerator software that

Netgear has announced availability of its new ReadyNAS products that are spread across three series all running on a new OS. The new NAS also utilizes redesigned hardware and a sleek, modern GUI. Compared to previous models, one significant change that Netgear has implemented is that all of its new NAS units will run unified

Sanbolic’s newly available Melio5 software supports up to 2,048 nodes and 65,000 storage devices with 650,000 IOPS per server, and the software is aimed at reducing scale-out hardware costs for businesses in the enterprise. Melio5 improves the economics of deploying server-side Flash, SSD, and HDD primary storage. The theory behind the software is that installing

Seagate announced quite an accomplishment today publicizing that it has become the first hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer to ship two billion HDDs. The first one billion units took the company 29 years to ship. However, since then over the last four years, Seagate has managed to ship yet another billion drives. The incredible demand

Working jointly with MarkLogic, StorageReview has developed the first actual NoSQL environment to benchmark storage that clearly illustrates the benefits of flash coupled with the industry’s fastest interconnect. Previous benchmarking efforts have simulated database workloads, but this is the first time we’ve been able to test against an actual NoSQL instance working against the best

EMC has announced Data Protection Advisor 6, an update on their software that enables organizations to easily gain visibility and insight into their backup infrastructures. As data needs grow and more companies expand existing storage and add virtual storage, EMC’s Data Protection Advisor 6  monitors, alerts, analyzes, optimzies, and reports on those infrastructures enabling users

Sepaton announced immediate availability of their S2100-ES3 series 2925 large enterprise, government-class purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) featuring version 7.0 software. The S2100-ES3 series helps enterprise and government data centers to deal with data growth, risk, and financial constraints. Using the S2100-ES3, just one administrator can manage tens of petabytes within a single system. Significant upgrades

Synology announced the release of its latest advancement in NAS technology, DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2 with improved features and additions for the SMB enterprise market. Now out of the beta version we covered in January, DSM 4.2 provides both home and SMB enterprise users with upgrades at no cost. Updating is simple and users can