Coraid today announced EtherFlash Cache, a programmable SSD cache solution that accelerates read performance, and EtherCloud, which aims to allow enterprise and cloud customers to provision and manage petabytes of block and file storage with the simplicity of consumer cloud services.

Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit has announced it is expanding its enterprise Solid State Drives (eSSD) family with the PX-Series, which will debut in the fourth quarter with three models targeted for different applications. The new PX02SM, PX02AM, and PX03AN drives span a variety of price and performance points, but all offer power-loss protection and

Quest Software has announced vRanger 6.0, the latest version of the company’s virtual data protection solution, which will now also offer backup and restore for physical Windows servers. vRanger 6.0 will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2012, and will open a path to backup platform consolidation for Quest clients that must support

The EMC VNXe3150 which was announced at EMC World back in May, is now shipping worldwide. The unified storage system is designed for SMBs who need storage for cloud and virtualized environments, but need something easy to manage for IT generalists. The VNXe3150 is designed to support virtualization for up to 50 servers and is

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