CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison announced new products and cloud services at its annual five-day Open World 2012 conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center: the new Oracle 12C parallel database software designed for cloud computing deployments and the X3, an updated version of the Exadata hardware in-memory database and analytics. The announcement concerning

Kaminario, provider of scalable, high-performance, enterprise-class SSD SAN storage solutions, announced that it has achieved industry-leading performance of greater than 2 million IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput on a single MLC-based all-flash K2 storage system. The 2M IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput was achieved using workload of random reads on a single K2 system containing

GridIron Systems has announced TurboCharger GT-1500, a Flash-based appliance that drastically improves the performance of entire data center Storage Area Networks (SANs) to solid state speeds while avoiding the issue of disrupting servers, storage or software applications. The GridIron TurboCharger is an innovative appliance that does away with conventional storage I/O bottlenecks by intelligently caching

Unitrends today announced the launch of Recovery-943, a 4U tiered backup appliance which supports a maximum backup size of 50TB and a total of 97TB of unformatted usable physical storage capacity. Operating system, metadata, and backup sets are stored on different drive types: SSD for the operating system and HDDs for metadata and the backup

Sanbolic today announced the general availability of its Latency Targeted Allocator (LTA) module for the Melio data management platform. The TLA module enables high availability in mixed hard disk drive, flash memory and solid state disk deployments, aggregating distributed server-side flash storage into a centrally managed ‘softSAN’ in order accelerate their physical, virtual and cloud

Emulex Corporation has announced the availability of its second generation of LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). The LPe16000B series of 16GFC HBAs are the only adapters available on the market that support PCI Express 3.0 in order to comply with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 processor-based server platforms. Emulex’s 16GFC HBAs

I heard an analyst recently quote a stat that by 2015, over 80% of storage capacity sold worldwide will be shipped in support of file-level or ‘unstructured’ data. That is file-based information that doesn’t fit neatly in a column-and-row database. Audio, video, graphics, and all of the other content we Facebook and Twitter about are

ATTO Technology has announced the release of their new 16GB/s Celerity Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), FibreConnect switches, and FastStream RAID storage controllers, the latest additions to their portfolio of Fibre Channel solutions.

Micron has announced a firmware upgrade for their Micron C400/Crucial m4 SSDs, providing multiple speed and power improvements. Micron has been known for continuous improvements for their SSDs, which benefits bother OEM and client buyers. The latest 010G firmware upgrade is optional; however, those who elect to update will gain several improvements like faster boot