Mellanox Technologies today announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions will provide the interconnect for the new Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Stampede supercomputer. Stampede will integrate thousands of individual Dell servers with Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand SwitchX SX6000 switches and ConnectX-3 PCI Express 3.0 adapter cards to drive performance of more than 10 petaflops.

Seagate Technology has announced a line of Backup Plus storage devices that offer one-click computer backup plus the ability to integrate with Facebook and Flickr to download or upload photos and video. Backup Plus devices work interchangeably with Windows and Apple computers, and include a Universal Storage Module (USM) connector which enables consumers to update

Western Digital has announced My Net, its first line of wireless home networking products. My Net features new WD FasTrack technology that uses real-time analysis to identify and prioritize bandwidth for entertainment services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, VUDU, YouTube, Xbox LIVE, and Skype. The top-of-the-line My Net N900 Central will also feature an integrated 1

Lacie’s new 4big Rack Office supports secured RAID 1 and RAID 5 modes and automatic backups for up to 10 PCs and three Macs. The 4big Rack Office enables small businesses share up to 8TB of storage within the office and from the road using Windows’ remote access feature. It also includes 100GB of complimentary

Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected

At Microsoft TechEd, Violin Memory and Microsoft are showcasing a new all-flash “Cluster-in-a-Box” Private Cloud solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform. The Violin is a 3U system specified to deliver one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth, potentially replacing multiple racks of traditional disk arrays. Multiple “Cluster-in-a-Box” arrays

Fusion-io has announced that Cisco will be making an ioMemory mezzanine card available to customers who are using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The solution which is based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory2 platform and will give UCS B-series blade servers a substantial performance boost, ideal for those using the Cisco servers for scalable application

Intel sent a moderate chill through the SSD world this afternoon by announcing that their Intel SSD 520 is getting a spec change from AES 256-bit encryption to AES 128-bit encryption. As it turns out, the problem affects all SandForce SF-2000 series controllers (SF-2200 consumer and SF-2500 enterprise controllers) and spec change announcements from all

X-IO has announced that it will demonstrate a single rack of commodity hardware that can sustain over 15 gigabytes per second of throughput and up to 100,000 IOPS with Windows Server 2012. The demonstration at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 uses 10 ISE-2 Intelligent Storage systems with HP servers, Infiniband adapters, and hardware from Qlogic,