Seagate announced quite an accomplishment today publicizing that it has become the first hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer to ship two billion HDDs. The first one billion units took the company 29 years to ship. However, since then over the last four years, Seagate has managed to ship yet another billion drives. The incredible demand

Working jointly with MarkLogic, StorageReview has developed the first actual NoSQL environment to benchmark storage that clearly illustrates the benefits of flash coupled with the industry’s fastest interconnect. Previous benchmarking efforts have simulated database workloads, but this is the first time we’ve been able to test against an actual NoSQL instance working against the best

EMC has announced Data Protection Advisor 6, an update on their software that enables organizations to easily gain visibility and insight into their backup infrastructures. As data needs grow and more companies expand existing storage and add virtual storage, EMC’s Data Protection Advisor 6  monitors, alerts, analyzes, optimzies, and reports on those infrastructures enabling users

Sepaton announced immediate availability of their S2100-ES3 series 2925 large enterprise, government-class purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) featuring version 7.0 software. The S2100-ES3 series helps enterprise and government data centers to deal with data growth, risk, and financial constraints. Using the S2100-ES3, just one administrator can manage tens of petabytes within a single system. Significant upgrades

Synology announced the release of its latest advancement in NAS technology, DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2 with improved features and additions for the SMB enterprise market. Now out of the beta version we covered in January, DSM 4.2 provides both home and SMB enterprise users with upgrades at no cost. Updating is simple and users can

LSI announced that its Nytro WarpDrive cards have been validated for use with NetApp Flash Accel software, making them amongst the first PCIe flash devices to have been qualified for Flash Accel use. Together with NetApp Flash Accel software, LSI’s Nytro WarpDrive family of cards speed application performance by converting server-based flash into data cache

OCZ announced the general availability of VXL 1.3, the newest version of OCZ’s VXL Cache and Virtualization software. VXL software works with OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs to create and distribute caches from which the OS allows virtual sessions to run. The previous version, VXL 1.2, provided some solid updates. It enabled Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD flash drives to

Seagate announced that its third-generation of solid state hybrid drives (SSHD), drives with technology designed to take advantage of the performance of SSDs without sacrificing the capacity users expect from HDDs, will begin shipping. Seagate is currently the only brand offering SSHDs, though it is worth noting that Toshiba and Western Digital have them in

EMC has consolidated their array of flash offerings under new branding, Xtrem. The EMC Xtrem family incorporates three core offerings. XtremSF (server flash) includes PCIe application accelerators, XtremSW (software) includes caching solutions, formerly referred to as VFcache, and XtremIO, the all flash array formally referred to as Project X and part of the XtremIO acquisition. As part of