Barracuda and Drobo have announced a joint endeavor to offer a Drobo 5N client for Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage platform. The Drobo 5N is a NAS appliance for small office environments and prosumer applications such as photography, video, and other types of digital content creation. The Copy client will allow 5N users to designate shared

Virident has announced FlashMAX Connect, a software suite that creates a flash storage management layer to leverage the company’s FlashMAX II PCIe storage in existing SAN and NAS architectures. FlashMAX Connect, now in beta, optimizes the use of flash storage for databases and virtualization applications including applications where a single PCIe card services multiple servers.

PMC has announced the industry’s first high-performance, high density, low-profile encrypted PCIe Gen3 host bus adapter (HBA) family to further expand its Adaptec storage product-line. PMC’s new HBA family is capable of executing over one million IOPS with 6.6 GB/s sustained throughput, provides 256 bit AES encryption, and offers up to 16 ports. The Adaptec

SMART is line to become first to market for a 1.8” SAS SSD, with a newly-announced addition to the Optimus SSD line. The Optimus 1.8" SAS SSD is designed for blade servers, caching, and other high-density computing environments, using MLC NAND flash in capacities of 200GB and 400GB with a rated lifetime of 10 drive

Dell has announced the DR4100, an update to their backup and recovery appliance line that is based on the Fluid Data Architecture. The DR4100 is highlighted by support for deduplication and compression at rates of up to 15 to 1, to help customers tame data sprawl with more efficient storage. While the DR4100 can start

NetApp today announced the availability of its new all-flash EF540 array, intended for performance-driven application and data center deployments. The EF540, built on the SANtricity operating system, can provide more than 300,000 IOPS and sub-millisecond latency in a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture. The company has also released a preview architecture for its new FlashRay product

NetApp today announced the new FAS6220, FAS6250, and FAS6290, additions to its high-end FAS/V6200 storage platform. The new systems are optimized for use in conjunction with NetApp’s other flash offerings to increase IOPS over 80% from previous maximums and reduce latency by up to 90%, improving SAN to over 250K IOPS and NAS performance to

HP today announced new HP StoreVirtual Storage systems based on the company’s ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) technology, aimed at midsize virtualized environments and HP channel partners with entry-to-midmarket storage portfolios. HP has also introduced a channel-only StoreSystem solution with 3PAR StoreServ Storage and StoreOnce Backup functionality.

OCZ has announced a new 20 nanometer (nm) NAND flash version of its Vertex 3 SSD Series, the Vertex 3.20. Like the original, OCZ’s latest SSD refresh is a 2.5-inch, 6Gb/s SATA III-based MLC SSD that implements a SandForce controller; however, the Vertex 3.20 is built around smaller NAND flash process geometry. The change to 20nm