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.

Dell has announced a pair of new hybrid storage arrays with enhanced integration with VMware, the EqualLogic PS6510ES and PS6500ES. The iSCSI arrays are designed for highly virtualized environments, with these two platforms designed specifically with virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) in mind. The 4U rack enclosures bring EqualLogic’s customary ease of use and the benefits

SafeNet has announced the immediate availability of StorageSecure, a self-contained NAS hardware encryption appliance developed in collaboration with NetApp. StorageSecure is designed to drop into the network between clients and servers, linking them via a hardware cryptographic path to provide data isolation in multi-tenant environments.

Nimbus Data has launched Gemini, their third generation flash array. Gemini looks and acts much like prior Nimbus arrays, but there are significant updates this time around, namely 10-year endurance our of consumer-grade MLC NAND and software-configurable interconnect ports that support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. The Nimbus Gemini is also highlighted by hot-swap dual-controller

 Intel 7-series chipsets with Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 11.2 drivers will support TRIM for RAID 0 in Microsoft Windows 7, functionality we first reported when a reference to RAID 0 TRIM appeared in the RST 11.5 alpha release notes. A spokesperson for Intel has also confirmed an update to the RST driverset that is in

IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a privately-held developer of flash memory solutions based in Houston, Texas. IBM’s acquisition includes the TMS RamSan family of shared rackmount systems and PCIe cards. Financial terms of the purchase, which is expected to close later this year, were not disclosed in the announcement.

Dell has announced the new PowerVault MD3 dense array, their most dense storage array ever, housing up to 180TB in a 60-drive 4U rack enclosure. Dell bills the PowerVault MD3 as a flexible mainline storage array for SMBs up to enterprises that need bulk storage that’s flexible enough to grow with data storage demands over

SanDisk has announced a new version of their FlashSoft caching software designed for use in virtual environments. Already available for Windows and Linux, the new product supports VMware vSphere 5.0 and later. FlashSoft installs in the host OS, without the need for agent software installed in the VMs. FlashSoft is also SSD independent, working with

Tegile Systems has announced the HA2400 and HA2800, two new storage solutions in its Zebi family. This announcement also marks the release of updates to Tegile’s Metadata Accelerated Storage System (MASS) architecture, which separates metadata from the primary data path to power de-duplication, compression, RAID, and snapshot pointers functionality more efficiently than architectures which intermingle