Western Digital has taken the wraps off a new hybrid hard drive platform leveraging a 2.5" 5mm design (nearly half as thick as a standard 2.5" drive), making it the smallest hybrid to date. While the size is interesting, WD is making other major design changes from what we’re seeing out of Seagate, the only

StarWind Software Inc, provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, has announced the release of the new StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS V6 and VMware Backup Plug-in Release Candidate. This update is improved by a three-node High Availability (HA) architecture, which is completely eliminates single point of failure and ensures business continuity with 99.99%

Other World Computing has introduced the Mercury AccelsiorM half-height PCIe controller card for 50mm mSATA SSDs. The AccelsiorM is ACHI-compliant and can serve as a boot drive for both Windows and Mac systems. OWC has designed the AccelsiorM card to accelerate media production, gaming, and other I/O-intensive applications at a consumer price point.

Diversified Agency Services (DAS) has launched Consolidated Data Services, a new venture that is an internal IT services provider for Omnicom Group’s more than 100 creative marketing communications agencies across 71 countries worldwide. DAS has created three data centers in Atlanta, Phoenix and London, deploying a homogenous HP Converged Infrastructure that includes compute servers, storage, networking,

Synology has released an updated version of the DiskStation DS413j, its four-bay NAS which serves up to 16TB of storage for a home or small office network. The DS413j now ships with DiskStation Manager 4.1, and customers can use Synology’s Cloud Station and ezCloud technology to extend access to stored data across the Internet, including

Western Digital has extended their line of portable hard drives, introducing My Passport Edge, a new line of 500GB drives in its My Passport family. My Passport Edge is designed with a USB 3.0 interface and a slim 2.5-inch hard drive that helps keep the physical footprint of My Passport Edge to a minimum.

PMC today announced upcoming availability of its new Adaptec Series 7, a family of SAS and SATA RAID adapters which includes the market’s first 16- and 24-port PCIe 3.0 adapters. The Adaptec Series 7 offers up to 16-ports in a low-profile MD2 form factor and up to 24-ports in a full-height half-length form factor, both

Acronis, provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions, has announced its latest release of Acronis Backup & Recovery: a unified platform from which organizations can centrally manage data protection and disaster recovery tasks for physical, virtual and cloud environments from a single management console, and move data between environments quickly and easily. It also

QLogic has announced the Mt. Rainier project, code name for their upcoming server-side caching solution which is designed for enterprise application acceleration. The solution combines QLogic’s SAN HBA technology with server-based flash storage and software to deliver OS-independent caching in a variety of configurations. Mt. Rainier centers around the QLogic PCIe HBA base adapter card