Symantec’s survey of 4,506 business and IT executives reveals useful indicators for the storage industry, underscored by its finding that data growth is expected to reach 67 percent for enterprise and 178 percent for SMB during the next year. As many as two-thirds of respondents lost business important information in the previous 12 months.

Last week we were on-site with LSI at their Norcross, Georgia facility. This facility houses roughly 100 employees that span everything from their MegaRAID and high availability DAS (HA-DAS) teams, to a lab, technicians and specialists that make up the new Nytro-branded accelerated storage division. The focus of the visit centered largely around testing protocol

Seagate has announced an investment in DensBits, as the formerly hot, now scorching hot, SSD controller space accelerates. DensBits’ claim to fame is the inventor of Memory Modem. If that sounds a little too 1990’s dial-up service, rest assured that Memory Modem is actually "A modem designed specifically for Flash memory…that dramatically increases reliability and,

Hitachi GST has announced a new line of portable and desktop USB 3.0 storage solutions in its G-Technology Mobile and G-Technology Desktop product families. G-Technology specializes in the Mac consumer and prosumer market sector, offering drives that ship pre-formatted for Mac OS X environments.

Drobo has announced two new storage appliances that offer dual Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity. The Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini share a common hardware and firmware platform and similar feature sets, with the key difference being the 5D is intended for stationary use, utilizing 3.5” drives, while the Drobo Mini is designed for portability

SK Hynix Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire Link_A_Media Devices Corporation (‘LAMD’). LAMD is a developer of semiconductor system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, also commonly referred to as controllers, which interface with processors to increase the speed and reliability of flash memory.

The HP X5000 Storage portfolio now offers increased capacity and small form factor (SFF) drive support to help small and medium-sized businesses manage the growth of unstructured data. X5000 Storage is a highly available clustered file storage platform designed in collaboration with Microsoft to integrate the X5000 hardware platform with Microsoft’s SMB ecology so that

According to Gartner research, by 2016, at least 50 percent of business email users will rely primarily on a tablet or mobile client. HP has announced new offerings to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) prepare their technology infrastructure for an increasingly mobile workforce with secure, continuous access to data and applications. These solutions, as

EMC has announced its new VNX HPC series, including a preconfigured hardware and software appliance for commercial Lustre environments. The VNX HPC series includes metadata and object servers, EMC VNX5100 metadata storage, VNX7500 object storage, and Terascala LustreStack software. This product family also adds Infiniband connectivity, scaling performance to 10s of GB/s bandwidth with capacities