SanDisk today introduced the Lightning line of PCI Express (PCIe) Solid State Accelerator (SSA) cards. Lightning cards can be installed into any four lane (x4) or greater PCIe slot to provide more rapid access to frequently used data and to manage I/O-heavy workloads. With compatibility in mind across multiple platforms, the SanDisk Lighting PCIe SSA
Imation Introduces RDX Media Secure with CyberSafe Encryption
Imation today announced the availability of Imation RDX Media Secure with CyberSafe Pro Security Technology, the first RDX media with built-in encryption and cryptographic erase. All data written to its RDX media can be automatically encrypted after a one-time driver activation. The Imation RDX Media Secure can be used with existing direct-attach RDX docking stations
Buffalo Announces TeraStation 5000 and 7000 Network Storage Devices
Buffalo Technology has announced the new TeraStation 5000 series of business-class storage servers and a new enterprise-class TeraStation 7000 series. The 5000 series will launch with the two-drive TeraStation 5200 and the four-drive TeraStation 5400, both offering iSCSI, replication and failover support and SoleraTec Phoenix RSM, a video surveillance asset management solution. The 7000 series
NETGEAR ReadyDATA Family Offers up to 180TB of Affordable Storage
NETGEAR has announced the new ReadyDATA unified storage family, featuring up to 180TB of storage with native deduplication, replication, thin provisioning, unlimited snapshots, and support for SATA, SAS and SSD disk drives. The first products in this new line include the ReadyDATA 5200, with up to 12 drives and support for two expansion disk arrays
OCZ Agility 4 SSD Targets Price-To-Performance
OCZ Technology Group has announced its Agility 4 SSD series, featuring a 6Gbps SATA III interface and the Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform recently introduced in their flagship Vertex 4 SSD series. According to OCZ benchmarks, the Agility 4 delivers transfer rates of up to 400MB/s and up to 85,000 random write IOPS. These benchmarks
ICY DOCK Announces MB559U3S-1SB Ultra Slim USB 3 & eSATA HDD Enclosure
The MB559U3S-1SB is ICY DOCK’s latest external enclosure, designed with an ultra slim, fanless aluminum body that acts as a heatsink for the drive. The MB559U3S-1SB’s selling point for many customers is portable compatibility with the swappable tray system that ICY DOCK uses across many of its other enclosures. The MB559U3S-1SB’s tray is compatible with
EMC Atmos Enhancements for Globally-Distributed Storage
EMC has announced a suite of enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform for cloud storage environments, including new Atmos Cloud Accelerators that make it easier to move data in and out of Atmos-powered cloud storage. Each Atmos cloud provides hundreds of thousands of subscribers access to data powered by over 40 global service providers
New EMC VMAX Enterprise Storage Family Offers Support for the Hybrid Cloud
EMC has announced specifications for its new VMAX Family, consisting of the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and the newest VMAX 40K. The VMAX Family is built on EMC’s Virtual Matrix Architecture which provides the enterprise information infrastructure for deploying hybrid clouds. This architecture is complemented by new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend VMAX
EMC Announces VNX Updates, Including Analytics Integration with VMware’s vCenter Operations Management
EMC is now offering enhanced VNX storage solutions including the new VNXe 3150, featuring 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit than previous VNX enterprise storage systems. EMC has also added the new EMC Storage Analytics Suite, based on the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. VNX unified storage systems will be integrated with VMware
EMC VPLEX Deploys AccessAnywhere and RecoverPoint Support
EMC has announced enhancements to its VPLEX virtual storage and operating environment, including support for EMC RecoverPoint data protection and EMC AccessAnywhere’s cache coherency technology for third-site disaster recovery. VPLEX now integrates with VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) and VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).




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