The SCSI Trade Association’s (STA) Technology Showcase is an important venue for storage industry leaders and innovators to showcase their latest technologies. This week’s STA event offered a look into approaches for serial attached storage (SAS) connectivity that extend the reach of SAS links to achieve 10-meter cable lengths for passive copper, 25-meter lengths for
At this week’s SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, Molex, Amphenol, FCI and TE were eager to demonstrate a broad spectrum of new intermateable 12Gb/s box-to-box and inside-the-box SAS interconnects. Product demonstrations put the spotlight on MultiLink SAS, a new 12Gb/s SAS quad-port connector, and double-density Mini-SAS HD interconnectors with 8x interfaces. These configurations deliver
EMC has announced it is acquiring XtremIO, which will provide important resources for EMC as it continues to broaden its flash storage portfolio. EMC entered the flash storage market in 2008 when it became first to integrate flash drives into enterprise storage arrays; in 2011, EMC shipped over 24 PBs of flash storage. The all-cash
Benchmarks released by Mellanox, Microsoft, and Fusion-io show Mellanox’s RDMA technology for InfiniBand, paired with Fusion-io ioDrive and Windows Server 2012, increases application performance by more than 5X compared to 10GbE solutions. This announcement comes as Mellanox also expands its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions with new 18-port, 108-port, 216-port, and 324-port non-blocking fixed and
Ciphertex has announced the debut of new CX-10K-NAS (Network Attached Storage) and CX-R12K-NAS systems at Interop. Both systems integrate hardware AES 256-bit encryption with RAID storage. The 10-bay, portable CX-10K-NAS and 12-bay rackmount CX-R12K-NAS target forensic analysis, health care, oil and gas and media entertainment applications that require interoperable and secure data storage.
Barracuda Networks has announced the new Barracuda Backup Server 1090, one of the largest backup appliances on the market, offering up to 90TB of storage. Backup Server 1090, paired with the Barracuda Backup Service, provides an integrated local and offsite data backup and disaster recovery solution as a subscription service. The Barracuda Backup Service replicates
A four-horsemen of partners including STEC, Mellanox, AMAX and Zettaset are demonstrating a new appliance designed to deliver record-breaking performance for Hadoop users. The PHAT-Data40G as it’s known, is powered by four STEC 980GB PCIe storage accelerators, Mellanox’s 40GbE interconnect solutions, AMAX’s Intel Xeon E-based servers and Zettaset’s installation, management, and security tools.
OCZ and IceWEB Storage Corporation today announced that OCZ’s Talos 2 SAS SSDs and Deneva 2 SATA III SSDs will be deployed across IceWEB’s line of unified data storage systems. OCZ SSDs will also be used for IceWEB’s IceCAP Cache Acceleration Protocol, automated tiering, and pure SSD disk tiers.
Symantec has announced updates to its NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 technology. Symantec’s updated backup appliances are aimed to reduce backup platform fragmentation, offering end-to-end integrated backup appliances for servers, storage, and software.
Panzura has just announced a major update to the Panzura Operating System (PZOS) and Quicksilver Cloud Storage Controller today at Interop. PZOS and the Quicksilver controller are two critical components in Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System, which allows clients to integrate with existing infrastructures to present the cloud as local NAS backup storage. These technologies
Amazon