Toshiba has announced the AL13SE series of 2.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS hard disk drives for server and storage applications. The AL13SE is the first 10,000 RPM enterprise drive from Toshiba to offer 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba’s 10k RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator.

Synology has announced the public release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1 beta with feature and tool enhancements and with improved functionality. This version of DSM features a new Video Station package that offers video cataloguing, USB tuner support for live and recorded television viewing, and support for iOS management and streaming.

Overland Storage has released a pair of new SAN offerings; the SnapSAN 3000 for midrange businesses and the SnapSAN 5000 for the enterprise. Both systems are highlighted by features like thin provisioning, volume cloning, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication, snapshots and disk spin down for reduced power consumption. The SnapSAN 5000 offers additional performance, SSD

EMC has launched the latest version of their unified backup and recovery software, NetWorker 8.0. The update is highlighted by increased performance and scalability, deeper integration with EMC Data Domain deduplication systems, expanded enterprise application support and improved management and security features. EMC credits a revised architecture for NetWorker which lowers processor and RAM demands

AC&NC has announced its new JetStor SAS 660IS RAID array family, specified at up to 10 Gbit/s performance and up to 180 terabytes of block-level storage in a 4U enclosure. All of the SAS 660IS systems offer Intel IOP342 64-bit Chevelon dual core processors on each controller along with parity-assist ASIC, an iSCSI-assist engine, a

Corsair’s new lineup of Force GS SSDs is powered by a SandForce SF-2200 processor and toggle NAND. This marks Corsair’s first SSD design to make use of faster toggle NAND flash, which translates into a maximum random 4k write performance of 90k IOPS according to Corsair benchmarks.

Icy Dock’s new MB080U3S-1SB Blizzard 3.5” drive enclosure is engineered for maximum cooling. The Blizzard integrates an 80mm fan to cool all sides of the hard drive and create consistent airflow from the front to the back of the enclosure.

HP has announced that Lifescript, a family health publisher, has selected HP 3PAR Storage to support increased storage demands and analytic-based decision-making after a tenfold increase in online traffic and the installation of a new business intelligence (BI) platform.

In June, TwinStrata conducted a survey at the 2012 Cloud Computing Expo in New York to gauge the state of cloud storage among the represented organizations. The area of greatest cloud computing growth reported in the survey is cloud storage, with 46% of respondents indicating future plans to use cloud storage. Five out of six respondents indicated