HP today announced new HP StoreVirtual Storage systems based on the company’s ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) technology, aimed at midsize virtualized environments and HP channel partners with entry-to-midmarket storage portfolios. HP has also introduced a channel-only StoreSystem solution with 3PAR StoreServ Storage and StoreOnce Backup functionality.

OCZ has announced a new 20 nanometer (nm) NAND flash version of its Vertex 3 SSD Series, the Vertex 3.20. Like the original, OCZ’s latest SSD refresh is a 2.5-inch, 6Gb/s SATA III-based MLC SSD that implements a SandForce controller; however, the Vertex 3.20 is built around smaller NAND flash process geometry. The change to 20nm

Seagate Technology has announced Seagate Business Storage, its newest network attached storage (NAS) offering for small office/home office (SOHO), remote mobile office (RMO) and small to medium-sized business organizations (SMBs). The new Seagate storage solution delivers centralized backup, data protection, and remote access to critical business information. The NAS units range from a single bay

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.