In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate posted total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March of 61 million units, which is 29% greater than the prior quarter. These shipments translate into 42 exabytes in total capacity shipped and $4.4 billion in revenue. Seagate credits their shipment growth to recovery in the mobile
OWC released a new Mac and PC bootable PCIe SSD solution called the Mercury Accelsior, built around two LSI SandForce-powered SSDs. Offering speeds up to 780MB/s read and 763MB/s write, with I/O capabilities up to 100,000 IOPS burst, the Accelsior offers a substantial boost in performance over a single SATA-connected SSD. While at NABShow 2012
Infortrend has added a 6Gb/s SAS solution to the EonStor DS G7 series, the latest generation of its EonStor DS family of storage products. These new Direct Attached Storage (DAS) systems follow up on new fibre channel systems announced earlier in the year. The EonStor DS G7 provides throughput of up to 5,200 MB/s and
Icy Dock has announced the new MB982IP-1S-1 2.5″ SAS/SATA to 3.5″ SAS SSD & HDD Converter to give users a pure 2.5″ to 3.5″ SAS conversion. The MB982IP-1S-1 is an addition to the MB982 enterprise series emphasizing the industrial-level SAS storage applications with dimensions, connection locations, with its mounting hole positions located to mimic a
EMC announced at the NAB Conference today that EMC Isilon has been adopted as the storage platform for Livestream, a leading provider of live event coverage. EMC also announced that Isilon will remain the preferred scale-out NAS solution of choice for key media partners including Neoscape, The Associated Press, Corus Entertainment, John Wiley & Sons.
Paragon Software Group has announced the release of Paragon Virtualization Manager 12 Professional. The newest version of Virtualization Manager Professional has been updated and designed to solve the challenges migration and virtual management face, making tasks easier and more efficient for even inexperienced users.
Hitachi has announced their latest G-Technology external storage solution. The new G-RAID is highlighted by Thunderbolt connectivity and a pair of 7200 RPM Deskstar hard drives that can be configured in RAID0 for performance or RAID1 for data redundancy. The G-RAID is being launched at NAB, a perfect location given the demands of the professional
The SSD 330 Series is Intel’s latest entry SATA 6Gb/s SSD that gives consumers looking to upgrade existing systems affordable access to SSD performance. This new SandForce SF-2281-based SSD offers improved performance over the existing SATA 3.0Gb/s Intel SSD 320. The new SSD will come in capacities including 60GB, 120GB, and 180GB and offer read
Marvell and Western Digital have announced a milestone in their decade-long business relationship. Since the partnership began in 2001, Marvell’s shipments to WD have increased significantly, now totaling over one billion units. WD and Marvell will build on this successful history to develop new storage solutions across a broad spectrum of applications and emerging technologies
Fusion-io and Adobe have announced that the upcoming Creative Suite 6 Production Premium software will benefit from tighter integration with ioMemory products like the new Fusion ioFX. This tighter integration is all about application acceleration, with software packages such as Adobe After Effects seeing significant performance enhancements, bringing video manipulation into the realm of real-time
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