Plextor has announced their latest enthusiast-grade SSD offering, the PX-M5P. The first SSD to hit the market with Marvell’s latest generation SSD controller, the M5P promises some of the biggest single drive performance yet, with random read IOPS of 94,000 and write performance of 86,000 IOPS. Sequential read/write speeds weigh in up to 540/450 MB/s.
Virident Systems has announced FlashMAX II, its second generation PCIe solid-state drive for enterprise environments. Virident is backed by investors Intel and Cisco, and aims to compete with established players like Fusion-io by providing the highest capacity in a low-profile form factor and twice the performance density as its nearest competition.
EMC has announced the DLm8000, their latest high-end mainframe family of virtual tape libraries. The DLm8000 is highlighted by support for EMC VMAX and EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) synchronous replication. The system also boasts a 2.5X improvement in performance over the nearest competitor (read: IBM).
Nimble Storage has announced its forthcoming Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout Architecture (CASL), an enterprise storage architecture that independently scales controller performance, cache capacity, and storage capacity of storage arrays. Nimble Storage is targeting clients that start with a small footprint and leverage CASL to incrementally scale up or scale out their infrastructure as new storage
Today’s increasingly mobile work force has moved more and more end-users, devices, computing applications and highly sensitive data beyond the safety of the enterprise firewall. As the number of laptops multiplies across the enterprise, the prospect of a security breach through a lost or stolen device shifts from a speculative risk to a virtual inevitability.
Eaton has announced a new 5P UPS power management and battery backup solution for network closets and small data centers. 5P models range from 1,500 VA (1,440 watts) to 3,000 VA (2,700 watts) and offer integration with virtualized environments via Eaton’s Intelligent Power Software Suite.
Fusion-io has entered the networked flash appliance space today with the launch of their new ION Data Accelerator software. Pairing commodity server hardware with ioMemory devices, ION pushes Fusion-io into the networked flash-acceleration market with the likes of industry leaders such as Violin and Texas Memory Systems. ION offerings include either fully integrated solutions from
Crucial has introduced its v4 Solid State Drive (SSD), designed to upgrade the storage performance of SATA 2 (3Gb/s) systems. SATA 2 is the predominant interface for systems manufactured before 2011, and the v4 SSD focuses on maximizing the transfer capabilities of such mainstream desktops and laptops.
HP has announced that its HP3PAR 10000 Storage platform now supports all-SSD configurations with up to 512 SSDs per array. HP also expects to announce the availability of automated data mobility between its 3PAR P10000 Storage and HP’s ProLiant server platform in the near future.
LSI Corporation has announced enhanced power consumption features for its SandForce SF-2200/2100 Client Flash Storage Processors (FSPs) geared for ultrabook applications. These FSPs support SATA 6Gb/s connectivity from 24-512GB of NAND flash memory.
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