Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected

At Microsoft TechEd, Violin Memory and Microsoft are showcasing a new all-flash “Cluster-in-a-Box” Private Cloud solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform. The Violin is a 3U system specified to deliver one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth, potentially replacing multiple racks of traditional disk arrays. Multiple “Cluster-in-a-Box” arrays

Fusion-io has announced that Cisco will be making an ioMemory mezzanine card available to customers who are using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The solution which is based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory2 platform and will give UCS B-series blade servers a substantial performance boost, ideal for those using the Cisco servers for scalable application

Intel sent a moderate chill through the SSD world this afternoon by announcing that their Intel SSD 520 is getting a spec change from AES 256-bit encryption to AES 128-bit encryption. As it turns out, the problem affects all SandForce SF-2000 series controllers (SF-2200 consumer and SF-2500 enterprise controllers) and spec change announcements from all

X-IO has announced that it will demonstrate a single rack of commodity hardware that can sustain over 15 gigabytes per second of throughput and up to 100,000 IOPS with Windows Server 2012. The demonstration at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 uses 10 ISE-2 Intelligent Storage systems with HP servers, Infiniband adapters, and hardware from Qlogic,

Before you start to build or purchase your own RAID you need to decide on three of the following factors. how big – how much capacity you need, how strong – what fault tolerance is needed, and how fast – what performance in terms of write/read speed you want. In this guest editorial we cover

NetApp’s new FAS2220 is the latest member of its entry-level product portfolio for midsize businesses, building on the launch of its FAS2240 announced in November 2011. The FAS2220 leverages new NetApp Flash Pool SSD caching technology to accelerate application performance and integrates with NetApp’s suite of storage efficiency technologies to help customers increase utilization and

Super Micro Computer is showing of a full range of computing solutions for large scale IT deployments including X9 Server Solutions, Serverboards, SuperBlade, SuperWorkstations, and SuperStorage systems with Intel Xeon E5-2600/4600/2400 and E3-1200 v2 series processors. They also recently demonstrated integrated solutions in a SuperRack with their 10GbE top-of-rack network switch and Server Management Software

To say HP was active during their HP Discover 2012 event in Las Vegas this week is a bit of an understatement. The event was very much storage-focused, HP touted a range of new hardware, services and software ranging from StoreOnce data backup and deduplication to specialized cloud solution for airlines. There was a core message evident throughout