WD has announced the immediate availability of new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives in capacities up to 4TB. The new RE drives are available in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2TB, 3TB and 4TB for SATA. The new drives use a 5-platter, 800GB per-platter design.

LaCie has announced that its Rugged hard drive is the first portable storage solution to feature both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 technology on a high-performance SSD making it the fastest bus-powered solution on the market, delivering speeds of up to 380MB/s. The 1TB hard-disk version boasts speeds up to 110MB/s, which is a 35 percent

NetApp has announced that it has attained Oracle Validated Integration of the NetApp Storage System Plug-In version 1.0 using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. This extends the application-to-disk coverage of Oracle Enterprise Manager environments that include managed NetApp storage. Used in enterprise cloud environments, the NetApp Storage System Plug-In boasts comprehensive availability, performance, and configuration information

Hitachi has announced the new Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), a solution for small and medium enterprises to virtualize block, file, and object storage, including multivendor storage. According to Hitachi, the HUS VM requires 40% less power to operate and cool than comparably configured solutions from other vendors such as the EMC VMAX 10K.

Toshiba has announced the MQ01ABDH series of hybrid hard drives, bringing them in line now with Seagate who has been shipping hybrids for over two years and WD who recently threw their hat into the hybrid ring as well. Toshiba’s offering is based around the MQ01AB 2.5" hard drive platform which features dual 500GB platters,

Data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, has added two new models to its EonNAS 1000 Series – the EonNAS 1310 and 1510, which feature 2U/8-bay and a 2U/12-bay rackmount form factors respectively. These new storage solutions help SMB users to optimize file sharing, IP SAN applications, data storage, and data backup and are specifically designed to

IBM has announced its acquisition of Butterfly Software Ltd. which will become a part of IBM’s Software Group. Financial terms were not disclosed to the public. Butterfly is a privately held data analysis and migration software company based out of Maidenhead, England. They provide innovative applications that help organizations discover, analyse, and automatically migrate data centre

VeloBit has announced the availability of its HyperCache for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Hyper-V. HyperCache transparently caches data on SSDs to improve performance without configuration changes to infrastructure or applications. According to VeloBit, HyperCache can increase Microsoft SQL Server transactions-per-second by 700% while reducing average response by more than 80%.

Autonomy, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), has announced the availability of HP Application Information Optimizer 7.0, an enterprise solution that improves application performance for businesses, meets critical compliance obligations, and can reduce data storage by up to 48 percent.