Nexsan has announced service and support enhancements for its SAN, NAS and Hybrid Storage customers to complement an expanded product portfolio that includes virtualized infrastructure and cloud computing. Nexsan’s new Concierge managed services include 24/7 hardware monitoring and automatic dispatch, enhanced international support, onsite and online training, and global on-demand response from support engineers.
NEC has updated HYDRAstor OpenStorage for Symantec NetBackup, with Optimized Synthetics technology that allows clients to replace full backups with incremental ones. Symantec is providing an API for partners to integrate with NetBackup as part of the "Better Backup for All" program, and NEC is using this integration to leverage HYDRAstor’s processing power and integrated
OCZ has reported their most recent quarter which ended February 29th. Revenue for the quarter was a record $110.4 million, up from $103.1 million in the prior quarter and $64.6 million from the same quarter last year. Of the quarter’s $110 million in revenues, SSD sales drove $103.2 million. During the call Ryan Petersen announced new products
When evaluating SSDs in the consumer space, the buyer can get easily confused with the dizzying array of options. Rather than consolidating in the last year, the client SSD space continues to explode. Well, that's not entirely accurate, the number of manufacturers selling SSDs has increased, though the variation in solutions has not. To put
StorageReview has added a new Mac Mini to our test lab for enhanced compatibility testing for 2.5" consumer SSDs and benchmarking new Thunderbolt storage solutions. While most SSD buyers are Windows users, there is still a strong base of Mac owners who want to ensure an SSD is compatible with their system before going through
HGST has achieved interoperability between their 12Gb/s SAS drive, 12Gb/s SAS HBAs and expanders from LSI and PMC-Sierra. Doubling the data transfer rates of current-generation SAS interfaces is not enough to ensure broad adoption of 12Gb/s products — vendors like HGST that can guarantee backwards compatibility with existing enterprise storage systems will have an advantage
Permabit Technology has announced availability of Albireo for Flash Technologies. Albireo Software Development Kit (SDK) and Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) now both support enterprise flash technologies used in flash arrays, caching both hardware and software solutions and SSDs, including drives and PCIe solutions.
In 2012, the phrase “big data” is on everyone’s lips, just like virtualization was five years ago. Also just like virtualization, and cloud computing, there is a lot of hype obscuring the more important discussions around IT challenges, skill sets needed and how to actually build an infrastructure that can support effective big data technologies.
In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Western Digital drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March were 44.2 million units, compared to 28.5 million in the prior quarter, which shows major recovery from the Thailand floods as well as immediate benefit from the Hitachi acquisition. WD also indicated for the first time in a
Fusion-io has announced their financial results for its fiscal third quarter of 2012 which ended in March. Fusion-io reported record revenue of $92.4 million, which is up 12% over the prior quarter and 40% over the same quarter last year. Fusion-io highlighted several recent achievements including the SDK release, Fusion ioFX announcement and ioTurbine software update which now supports VMware
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