Netgear has announced three new 10 Gigabit switch solutions for small and medium business networks with fewer than 500 users. 10 Gigabit network connectivity is still unusual for SMB due to the expense of 10 Gigabit-capable equipment and a lack of solutions designed for smaller deployments. Each of Netgear’s new solutions utilizes 10GBASE-T Copper and

Micron has announced the availability of the new P400m SSD, Micron’s first 25nm MLC NAND SSD to implement the company’s Extended Performance and Enhanced Reliability Technology (XPERT) technology, which improves SSD performance and longevity. Offered in 100, 200, and 400GB capacities, the P400m is manufactured and tested entirely by Micron and is rated for ten

X-IO Technologies has announced the second generation ISE Station XL, a pre-configured 1 petabyte storage solution that offers over 1 million IOPS across four 44U racks. According to X-IO, this release reflects the company’s commitment to tuning the ISE Station product line to reduce cost-of-deployment by at least a third.

Dell is now accepting proof-of-concept requests to implement Cloud Client Computing for Retail, an in-store cloud environment. Cloud Client Computing for Retail is made up of three modules: thin and mobile endpoints with and without POS peripherals; on premise desktop virtualization infrastructure; and cloud-based desktop virtualization infrastructure. Dell’s recent acquisitions of Wyse, SonicWALL, and Quest

Organizations planning for big data and data analytics can be faced with new personnel requirements to support big data IT infrastructure. Symantec today announced its NetBackup solution has been certified by SAP to provide big data backup and recovery integration with the SAP HANA platform, allowing NetBackup customers to unify backup across SAP HANA solutions.

ioScale is Fusion-io’s half-length ioMemory PCIe drive, available in capacities up to 3.2TB with a single controller. A small form factor server outfitted with ioScale cards can reach 12.8TB or more, a typical application for ioScale in the datacenter. In the past, ioScale has only been available for order in the thousands of units, but

EMC has announced beta availability of a new online enterprise file sharing solution that integrates its Isilon scale-out NAS storage with Syncplicity’s cloud storage technology. The solution features an on-premise Isilon storage option capable of growing from 10s of terabytes to 10s of petabytes in order to provide cloud access to corporate data while retaining

  EMC today announced comprehensive updates across its VMAX family of enterprise storage arrays, including a new version of EMC’s Enginuity software and a number of upgrades for the VMAX 10K that improve performance in virtualized environments and incorporate features previously only available on the VMAX 20K and VMAX 40K. According to EMC, this suite

Dot Hill has announced its midrange AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series will feature the company’s newly-patented method for maximizing real-time tiered storage performance. AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series solutions incorporate RealStor, new Dot Hill management software which implements autonomic balancing of "hot" and "cold" data across drives within the same storage tier without policy setting or human