Quest Software has announced NetVault Extended Architecture (XA), a new platform that unifies Quest’s data protection technologies in order to align backup and recovery to client SLAs. While legacy data protection software often focuses on servers and other infrastructure, the new NetVault solution is aimed at management and protection in mixed physical, virtual, and cloud

Fusion-io has been providing custom acceleration solutions for HP’s line of ProLiant servers for some time. With the recent update to ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers, Fusion-io has worked with HP to release a second generation application acceleration product. The new HP IO Accelerators are installed within the ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms, leveraging the PCIe

PMC has announced its 12Gb/s SAS Flash Manager (SFM-12G) for enterprise SSDs. This will be the industry’s first end-to-end 12Gb/s SAS solution, from protocol controller to SSD controller. According to PMC, the SFM-12G delivers more than 300,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 2.5” SAS SSD. When paired with PMC’s SPCv 12G, manufacturer benchmarks indicate

HP announced enhancements to its Information Optimization Solutions portfolio that are intended to capitalize on the growth of big data, including operational, application and machine data. HP AppSystem for Hadoop aims to be the first enterprise-ready appliance for scale-out Hadoop workloads. AppSystem combines HP Converged Infrastructure with Vertica 6 to deliver big data processing and

LSI Corporation has demonstrated its new SandForce SF-2000 Flash Storage Processors (FSPs) with 19nm and 20nm NAND. Shrinking flash memory geometries such as new flash storage from Toshiba and Intel mean individual memory cells have increasing difficulty maintaining a charge. To optimize the reliability, data integrity, and retention of 19nm and 20nm flash storage, LSI’s

HP has announced Data Protector 7, a data management software solution designed to operate at the largest data storage scales. Powered by HP’s Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Data Protector 7 delivers a unified platform for storage assets via federated deduplication. HP also announced updates to StoreOnce federated data deduplication. Both solutions leverage Autonomy

Updated StoreOnce Catalyst software for HP StoreOnce Backup will allow application servers at remote sites to send deduplicated backups directly to a centralized StoreOnce Backup system. StoreOnce Catalysts also maintains local copies for recovery without additional hardware. According to HP, updates to StoreOnce have allowed backup performance up to 100 terabytes (TB) per hour and

Legacy multitier fibre-channel network architectures struggle to scale with increased network traffic and require a web of network cards, interconnect cables, and switches. The new HP Virtual Connect Direct-Attach FC for 3PAR with Flat SAN technology offers reduced complexity and reduced latency between servers and storage by eliminating the need for multi-tier storage area networks

Toshiba announced the THNSNF-series of SSDs, which feature new 19nm Toshiba Toggle MLC NAND. These new models are twice as fast as the previous HG3-series and available in three form-factors including the standard 9mm 2.5-inch design, as well as a 7mm-tall version for Ultrabooks and a mSATA model for integrated designs. The new THNSNF SSDs