LaCie has announced the 5big NAS Pro, a high-performance 5-bay small business NAS powered by a dual-core 2.13GHz Intel 64-bit Atom processor and 4GB RAM. The 5big NAS Pro features dual LAN connections with link aggregation for network transfer speeds up to 200MB/s, and is available diskless, or in 10TB and 20TB capacities.

LaCie, in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck, have announced the Blade Runner, a 4TB external hard drive with a USB 3.0 interface. LaCie will manufacture only 9,999 of the drives, which now arrive 20 years after the initial collaboration which has become a design hallmark for both LaCie and Starck in the years since.

Seagate Technology has announced its next-gen, networked home storage solution, Seagate Central shared storage. It is first storage device that features a Smart TV app to access files on its screen and provides automatic backup for the entire household, access to users’ multimedia files from networked devices in addition to remote access from outside a

Seagate Technology has announced the Seagate Wireless Plus mobile device storage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. This new wireless hard drive is designed to wirelessly stream content for up to eight smartphones or tablets with enough space for up to 500 high-definition movies with its integrated 1TB drive. The Seagate Wireless Plus also has

Toshiba America has announced new enterprise-grade SATA SSD models that support cryptographic-erase and self-encrypting drive (SED) models; an eSSD and a mobile SATA HDD (PX02AMU and PX03ANU/PX02SMQ and MQ01ABUW). Together, these four new 2.5-inch storage device models give IT system and PC system administrators better tools to help secure sensitive business data.

Marvell has announced the availability of the Marvell DragonFly NVDRIVE, a turnkey enterprise-class PCIe SSD caching solution with built-in SSD modules, extending the DragonFly NVCACHE and NVRAM adapter product offerings. The NVDRIVE is targeted for large-scale Internet and cloud computing datacenters while significantly scaling bare metal and virtualized server applications, such as Web servers, OLTP

Lenovo and EMC Corporation have announced they have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, which was previously announced in August 2012, in addition to a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked storage solutions. The deal will bring co-branded NAS solutions to distributed enterprise, remote branches, and small and medium businesses all the

Imation Corp, a scalable storage and data security company, has announced that it has acquired privately held California-based Nexsan Corporation, provider of disk-based storage systems. Imation plans to build a platform for long-term growth and to improve operating margins in high-growth data storage and security solutions markets.

Icy Dock has released the FlexCage MB973SP-1B, a 3-in-2 trayless SATA Backplane Cage for 3.5" SATA hard drives. The MB973SP-1B is designed specifically for use in server environments and allows up to 3 x 3.5" SATA hard drives while only consuming two 5.25" device bays.