Dot Hill’s new AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series and AssuredSAN 4000 Series target the midrange and high performance tiered storage array markets. The 5000 Series provides up to three automatic data tiers that analyze and optimize the delivery of priority data. The 4000 Series is built with the same architecture, but is tuned for is customers

Pure Storage has announced several new updates to their FlashArray 300 series of MLC NAND-based storage arrays and the Purity software that manages them. The Purity 2.5 management software update highlights include iSCSI support via 10GbE, ZeroSnap snapshots, and vCenter web client plugin. While all of the new features add breadth to the Pure Storage

Proximal Data has announced a collaboration with LSI Corporation to develop an adaptive caching solution that addresses disk I/O bottleneck problems that occur as the number of virtual machines deployed within an infrastructure increases. AutoCache plugs into hypervisors like VMware to inspect all blocks from all virtual machines to place hot I/O into a local

The NetApp Virtual Storage Tier optimizes the use of flash on the server through intelligent caching to improve the performance and efficiency of shared storage infrastructure. With the new Flash Accel, NetApp is extending the Virtual Storage Tier strategy to the server to provide caching of random read operations for virtual server infrastructure that leverage

Coraid today announced EtherFlash Cache, a programmable SSD cache solution that accelerates read performance, and EtherCloud, which aims to allow enterprise and cloud customers to provision and manage petabytes of block and file storage with the simplicity of consumer cloud services.

Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit has announced it is expanding its enterprise Solid State Drives (eSSD) family with the PX-Series, which will debut in the fourth quarter with three models targeted for different applications. The new PX02SM, PX02AM, and PX03AN drives span a variety of price and performance points, but all offer power-loss protection and

Quest Software has announced vRanger 6.0, the latest version of the company’s virtual data protection solution, which will now also offer backup and restore for physical Windows servers. vRanger 6.0 will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2012, and will open a path to backup platform consolidation for Quest clients that must support

The EMC VNXe3150 which was announced at EMC World back in May, is now shipping worldwide. The unified storage system is designed for SMBs who need storage for cloud and virtualized environments, but need something easy to manage for IT generalists. The VNXe3150 is designed to support virtualization for up to 50 servers and is

Astute Networks has announced the release of its ViSX G4 Flash VM, a 2U storage appliance that will be able to provision up to 140,000 sustained random IOPS that is fully shareable by virtual machines on all hosts over pervasively deployed 10Gb or 1Gb Ethernet networks.