Starbaord Storage, who sold hybrid storage arrays, has told StorageReview they're closing down. According to the company, "we have decided to cease operations, and have begun a process to wind down the business." Clearly not everyone in the hybrid storage business was going to survive, though Starboard certainly had hoped for a better outcome. The

HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced that it is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive.  Revealed in September of last year, HGST’s HelioSeal platform makes way for higher capacity storage in the years to come while substantially lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). By using the inherent benefits of helium, the new Ultrastar

Mellanox today announced that it will be the first certified end-to-end interconnect vendor for OpenStack’s forthcoming Havana distribution. Mellanox 10/40GbE and FDR 56Gb/s adapters and switches can be matched with OpenStack Cinder block storage, OpenStack Neutron networking, and OpenStack Nova compute components in order to support cloud services vendors. Mellanox will also be the first

HGST has announced the Travelstar Z5K1000, its new 2.5-inch 1TB drive and the industry’s fastest 7.0 mm 5,400 RPM HDD with best-in-class shock robustness for thin, ultra-portable laptops, Ultrabooks, external storage, and ultra-compact CE devices. HGST’s 7.0 mm Z-series HDD product line features common connectors and mounting points for easy integration into existing systems, which

Toshiba has announced the PX02SS, a 2.5" 12GB/s SAS enterprise SSD designed for write intensive workloads like online transactional databases. The PX02SS joins the recently released PX02SM, which is also a 12GB/s SAS SSD, but generally fails to take advantage of the speedy interface. Both drives use eMLC NAND, but the PX02SS is tuned specifically for

DataCore has announced SANsymphony-V R9.0.4 which adds significant new features to their virtualization software platform that is hardware vendor agnostic. Taking into account the mix of both memory and disk based storage capabilities, SANsymphony-V will auto-tier the storage infrastructure based on application and database performance needs. This ability to tune the environment enables the administrators

Asigra is now shipping its new Cloud Backup Connector Appliance which features a Cisco 2921 Integrated Services Router that can provide local and cloud backup across storage, servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices. The appliance is designed as a turnkey solution for SMB and distributed enterprise branch offices that can optionally provide both onsite backup

Emulex has long been a leader in the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for SANs market, and have announced Gen 5 Fibre Channel Flash Services will be available for upgrade at no additional charge with the purchase of the Gen 5 HBA hardware. Both server and fabric based flash arrays are employed to enhance the quality

Toshiba has announced the slim, 7mm two-platter MQ02ABF series 2.5-inch 5,400 RPM SATA hard disk drive. The MQ02ABF series is Toshiba’s first two platter 7mm HDD model, which combines both the performance and power efficiency needed for thin mobile computing applications. The MQ02ABF HDD series is available in 750GB and 1TB capacities while featuring a