Fusion-io is announcing that their ioFX workstation acceleration platform will soon be available in a 1.6TB capacity connecting via PCIe and also that it will be available as an integrated solution in several HP Workstations. The ioFX 1.6TB adds to the already available 420GB model. The two ioFX models are designed for creative professionals working

Dell's Fluid Cache software has enabled Dell to begin offering solid state PCIe drives as flash memory to increase overall performance. This software comes in concert with the recent development that saw Dell acquire RNA technologies, which enables Dell to access new software that enhances flash memory performance. PCIe Application Accelerators, such as the Micron-based

LenovoEMC is announcing their next generation LifeLine 4.0 Operating System for Iomega NAS products which are now part of LenovoEMC. LenovoEMC LifeLine 4.0 OS features a variety of updated capabilities as well as new features. LifeLine 4.0 includes Integrated Virtualization Technology (IVX), Snapshots for the first time, SSD Cache Pools, iSCSI Security, Active Directory Hybrid

Seagate announced that it started shipping the Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (Seagate Desktop HDD.15), the industry’s only 4TB, 4 platter desktop hard drive with 1TB on each platter. Designed with home, SOHO, workstations and small businesses in mind, the drive is an update on what was previously called the Seagate Barracuda. Seagate claims that the

Dell has announced the availability of its densest Dell Compellent storage arrays that offer support for Seagate’s latest 4TB SAS hard drives offering a 33% capacity boost over the previous generation 3TB drives. Compellent arrays dynamically tier data; frequently accessed data is shifted onto high-performance SSD, Fibre Channel, and high-speed SAS drives, while Compellent designates

Nimbus Data announced the release of their new software HALO 2013, which is marketed toward IT managers working within the cloud who are interested in building all-flash memory architectures. HALO 2013 provides administrators with a simple ten minute startup that allows them to quickly access the analytical tools necessary to measure both the efficiency and

Samsung recently announced that it released its Magician 4.0 software, a new version that helps users manage performance of their Samsung SSD by giving users drive health status information. The new Magician 4.0 includes significant improvements over the previous version including simplified OS optimization and redesigned GUI. On top of that, Samsung also released their

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