Micron has begun sampling a new TLC NAND device with select customers, in expectation of full production in the second quarter of 2013. The new 128gb device uses Microns 20nm process, resulting in a total size of just 146 square millimeters, more than 25% smaller than a similar-capacity Micron MLC NAND device.

Intel has announced its new Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux, which prioritizes application performance, providing SSD-levels of speed without migration costs as well as built-in data integrity for Intel’s SSD data center family of products. The Linux version will be generally available within 30 days as an enterprise subscription and open source release while

EMC has announced Continuous Availability Advisory Services for organizations evaluating deployment of or improvement to their continuous availability (CA) architecture. CA provides redundancy for organizations that have mission critical applications that need to be able to sustain multiple types of hardware and infrastructure outages while still providing steady performance and uptime. The new service combines

  Zetta.net has announced the general availability of Zetta.net DataProtect for NetApp, their new cloud-based offsite backup, replication, and disaster recovery solution for environments that use NetApp filers. The new solution does not need any additional hardware, tapes, or third party software, allowing organizations that rely on NetApp to deploy a reliable and affordable offsite

Imation has announced the latest version of the Nexsan NST5000 unified hybrid storage system is now available, which addresses the increasing demand of enterprise-class storage capabilities in small to midsize enterprises. It also provides greater performance at an affordable price point for a variety of primary storage applications such as databases, virtual servers, and public

EMC’s new Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) Unified Analytics Platform Edition enables analysis of structured and unstructured data with Greenplum Databases for analytics-optimized SQL, Greenplum HD for Hadoop-based processing and Greenplum partner business intelligence, ETL, and analytics applications within a single appliance.  

Actifio’s technology portfolio is built to address a single aspect of enterprise IT infrastructure: the redundant copy data created by siloed systems such as backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, development, and test purposes. The newly-updated Actifio platform decouples data management from storage, network, and server infrastructure with or without Actifio storage hardware, with traditional or

Dell today announced new workload-optimized solutions for Dell server, storage and networking systems running the SAP HANA real-time analytics database platform. Dell also announced Active System Manager 7.0, the management layer for the company’s converged infrastructure offerings, which integrates recently-acquired Gale Technologies IP to deploy virtualized infrastructure and applications.

HP has introduced StoreEver Storage, a portfolio that integrates HP tape products and technologies with HP Converged Storage, HP Data Protector, and third-party backup software. StoreEver Storage solutions support tape media, standalone tape drives, and tape libraries in solutions that can accommodate more than 44 petabytes of data in a single system using 6.25TB LTO-6